North Carolina Lawyers Weekly would like to congratulate each of the bar applicants who passed the February 2022 North Carolina bar exam. The following names were provided by the North Carolina Board of Law Examiners to recognize those who passed ...
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An unusual combination of product and premises liability has netted a $2.5 million settlement for a repairman who was badly burned in a kitchen explosion. Justin Osborn and Matthew Gambale of Osborn, Gambale, Beckley & Budd in Raleigh said that ...
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A “sugar baby” who threatened to include a Charlotte man in a racy memoir of their adulterous dating service trysts unless he paid her significant hush money wasn’t entitled to a “true threat” analysis before she was convicted of extortion, ...
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BY JASON BOLEMAN A former Virginia high school student’s First Amendment claim against a county’s school board has been reinstated after the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the former student’s complaint “plausibly alleges a First Amendment claim.” The ...
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A woman who suffered severe burns while trapped in a burning car after she was rear-ended by a speeding driver has reached a $5.8M settlement, her attorneys report. Thomas Van Camp and Michael Newman of Van Camp, Meacham & Newman ...
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A North Carolina woman with a severe fracture will receive a settlement of nearly a million dollars after being injured in a three-car accident, her attorney reports. Isaac Thorp of Thorp Law in Raleigh and Kevin Bunn of Cary report ...
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Results are in from February’s bar exam, and the state’s first in-person exam since the summer of 2020 saw 175 law graduates pass the exam, out of 348 who sat for it, for a pass rate of 50.3 percent. The ...
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A Union County jury has awarded $250,000 to a Marshville woman who was struck by a car while viewing Christmas lights. Adrienne Blocker of DeMayo Law Offices in Charlotte said that her client, Marilyn Ridnouer, was viewing holiday decorations in ...
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A dispute stemming from a toxic mold problem allegedly caused by airflow issues in a newly constructed home has resulted in a $450,000 global settlement, the homeowners’ attorneys report. Ed Gaskins and Katie King of Everett Gaskins Hancock Raleigh in ...
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A district court properly approved the settlement of a long-running class action lawsuit brought by life insurance policyholders, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, rejecting the objection by a single policyholder and laying down for the first ...
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