North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  Estate planning in a digital era encompasses more than just the material things a client possesses. These days, attorneys must consider their client’s digital existence as well as their temporal one, and estate planners and executors need to think ...

Tagged with: Estate Planning

You may recall “per stirpes” as one of those legal terms you definitely vaguely remember studying for the bar exam, but the term of legal art (meaning “by branch” in Latin) created a bit of a puzzle for a panel ...

Tagged with: will

  A federal jury has awarded $1.95 million to a Charlotte financial advising firm that helped secure financing for a company that later refused to pay the firm’s full financing fee, the firm’s attorneys report.  In 2014, Prassas Capital found ...

Tagged with: Breach of Contract

  A North Carolina family that was denied U.S. citizenship because neither their attorney nor representatives from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services told them they had to fill out a certain form and pay a fee to apply for their ...

Tagged with: immigration

A jury has decided in favor of author Nicholas Sparks in a defamation and breach of contract lawsuit that a former headmaster lodged against the novelist, the private school he founded in New Bern, and his foundation. Saul Benjamin filed ...

Tagged with: Breach of Contract

The estate of wheelchair user who died from complications after he broke his femur while being transported in a van has confidentially settled a lawsuit against a transportation company for $750,000, the estate’s attorneys report. Liz Arias and Johnny Loper of ...

Tagged with: Wrongful Death

    A middle schooler who had sexual contact with another boy did not commit forcible sexual offense because penetration wasn’t proven, nor did he exploit him after his cousins posted a video of the incident on social media because ...

Tagged with: Sexual Offense

The grass can’t get high in Huntersville and sporting a thong is just wrong in Kure Beach. Both are misdemeanors in their respective towns. “It’s not fair to the citizenry to put them in a situation where they can’t easily ...

Tagged with: codes

  An Onslow County man still had a privacy interest in the rest of the contents of his thumb drive even after his girlfriend discovered an incriminating file stored on the drive, and so a police officer’s warrantless search of ...

Tagged with: records search thumb drive

A “significant and dramatic” $85 million online overhaul to the state’s court system is now underway, creating a “virtual courthouse” that will link all 100 North Carolina counties and allow attorneys to manage cases from start to finish online. Representatives ...

Tagged with: online courts