North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  When Karlie Hudson graduated from Campbell Law School in 2017, she said it was an easy decision to pass on job opportunities with large law firms in Raleigh to go to work for Daughtry, Woodard, Lawrence, & Starling, a ...

Tagged with: small law firms

  The University of North Carolina School of Law has rebounded in this year’s U.S. News & World Report’s Best Law School Rankings, rising 11 places and marking the largest change in position for any of North Carolina’s ranked law ...

Tagged with: UNC School of Law

A bill that would provide a framework for how North Carolina attorneys can proceed when clients on all sides want to resolve their civil and business disputes without resorting to litigation has cleared the state’s House of Representatives for the ...

Tagged with: collaborative law

  A Charlotte man will have to pay for some of the legal fees his ex-wife incurred while litigating a lengthy custody battle after the North Carolina Court of Appeals rejected his argument that their agreement to eventually settle the ...

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  A drug dealer’s statement to an undercover officer directing him to buy cocaine from his “boys” was properly admitted under an exception to the rule against hearsay even though the powder pawned off to police later proved to be ...

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In 2014, Chad McGowan, an attorney with McGowan, Hood & Felder, which has offices in Charlotte and Rock Hill, South Carolina, spent his days representing the state of South Carolina in an intense antitrust case. At night he took care ...

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A Mecklenburg County man convicted of selling marijuana did not receive ineffective assistance of counsel even though his attorney mistakenly waived his right to receive proper notice that prosecutors planned to raise an aggravating factor during his sentencing, the North ...

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An Asheville attorney who was suspended from the practice of law in 2017 after she handed over more than $30,000 in client funds to fraudsters posing as an investment firm has now been disbarred after she admitted to engaging in ...

Tagged with: Bar Discipline

A little-noticed change to North Carolina law is making it easier for people with criminal records to remove barriers to finding jobs and housing by expanding a lesser-known avenue for obtaining relief from the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction. ...

Tagged with: certificate of relief

  An inconspicuous house, tucked away in a cul-de-sac just a few miles to the Charlotte side of Lake Wylie, is at the center of a legal odyssey, one that started with barely $200 in unpaid homeowners’ association dues. Then ...

Tagged with: foreclosure