BY GARY PARSONS Most lawyers are well aware of and sensitive to protecting attorney-client privilege. We need to remember, however, that the Rules of Professional Conduct are broader than the privilege and impose confidentiality obligations on all that we learn ...
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It’s now been more than a year since the Lawyers Weekly team has assembled in our old office. Like so many of you, we’ve had to adapt to a world of working remotely, and it hasn’t always been easy. So ...
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A perfect storm of calamities has put a standstill to many North Carolina Department of Transportation projects, and that’s keeping people whose properties lay in the path of current and planned road and highway construction in limbo, eminent domain ...
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A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that gave U.S. states sovereign immunity from private lawsuits filed against them in the courts of another state will prevent a former college recruiter from suing an Alabama university in North Carolina courts, the ...
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It was about one year ago today that managing partners and general counsel everywhere found themselves frantically brainstorming, mass e-mailing, and calling emergency meetings, hoping to get ahead of a virus that threatened to close firms’ doors for what everyone ...
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A man who was severely injured after a truck pulled out in front of him while he was on his motor scooter has settled a claim with the at-fault driver’s insurance carrier for $300,000, his attorneys report. Gary Clemmons and ...
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The widow of a man who died after undergoing a heart procedure has confidentially settled a lawsuit with the treating cardiologist for $950,000, her attorneys report. John Kenneth Moser and Aindrea Pledger of Comerford Chilson & Moser in Winston-Salem ...
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A truck driver who now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder after he crashed into a tractor-trailer that had rolled backwards and blocked both lanes of traffic on a highway has settled a claim for just over $902,000, his attorneys ...
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A woman who was raped while she was sleeping in her bed near a North Carolina college campus has been awarded a default judgment of $35 million in damages, her attorneys report. The order is largely symbolic as the ...
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The thing that really jumps out at you about North Carolina Lawyers Weekly’s list of the Top Verdicts & Settlements of 2020 is how utterly ordinary it is. There are slightly fewer verdicts than is typical, but nothing about ...
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