North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  A new North Carolina law has formally codified the framework for the practice of collaborative law in the state, giving attorneys and their clients state-sanctioned guidance to resolve legal issues without lawsuits or depositions. Gov. Roy Cooper signed HB ...

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The North Carolina Industrial Commission has awarded $2 million to the mother of a seven-year-old boy who was killed after he was hit by a car while crossing a highway to board his school bus. The verdict comes 10 years ...

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The killing of George Floyd launched a nationwide reckoning with America’s history of racism. The ensuing movement against racism and racial injustice has already sparked changes that were both long overdue and yet until recently would have been difficult to ...

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As businesses throughout North Carolina slowly begin to reopen, they likely won’t have to worry about lawsuits from customers who claim that they contracted COVID-19 while on a business’s premises. The General Assembly has passed HB 118, the COVID-19 Liability ...

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  There was a poetic bit of symmetry in the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, in which the court ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal law that bans ...

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More than 700 aspiring lawyers are set to gather for an in-person bar exam at the end of July as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in North Carolina continues to rise, particularly among younger residents. The North Carolina Board ...

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  The Ethics Committee of the North Carolina Bar is preparing to discuss three proposals that would add anti-discrimination language to the state’s Rules of Professional Conduct. During a special meeting of the ethics committee on June 26 that was ...

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  It can be hard at times to find anything nice to say about the year 2020, but North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Cheri Beasley sounded an optimistic note while delivering a socially distanced State of the Judiciary Address, saying ...

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  The family of a man who died after a tractor-trailer crashed into his van has secured a $6 million wrongful death verdict against the at-fault driver and his employer, the family’s attorney reports. Wade Byrd of Fayetteville and Curtis ...

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COVID-19 sent thousands of attorneys scrambling to make arrangements to work from home, but it seems clear that even after the pandemic subsidies, many of those attorneys won’t ever be going back to the office, or at least not full-time. ...