Alan Woodlief, interim dean, and professor of law at Elon University School of Law, has seen the growth of the legal industry in the Carolinas firsthand. The reason behind the growth? The addition of “big law,” and national firms setting ...
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Cranfill Sumner LLP today announced Ryan Shuirman and Charlie Raphun have joined the firm’s Raleigh Office and that Robert El-Jaouhari (Raleigh), Jake Stewart (Charlotte), and Jack Wright (Charlotte) have been named partners in the firm. “We are thrilled to welcome ...
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By Jason Thomas [email protected] Alabama-based Maynard Cooper & Gale and Carolinas-based Nexsen Pruet have agreed to merge into one national law firm operating under the name Maynard Nexsen effective April 1, 2023. As a combined firm, Maynard Nexsen will join ...
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A motorcyclist who was rear-ended by a vehicle has been awarded an $800,000 settlement. The plaintiff was stopped behind a car on his Harley Davidson Sportster when he was rear-ended by the defendant. According to the plaintiff’s council, Thomas Kandler ...
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The family of a cyclist who was hit and killed by a pickup truck on his morning ride before work reached a settlement of $7.9 million. The pickup truck driver was driving on behalf of his company and the vehicle ...
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By Nick Hurston BTM Wire Services A plaintiff who said a required physical fitness test was a discriminatory condition of her government employment and that she was injured by a loss of income when she resigned after failing it can ...
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In 1976, Charles Ray Finch was convicted and charged with the death sentence for the murder of Shadow Holloman. Over 45 years later he has been vacated. According to the counsel for the estate of Finch, David Rudolf, Sonya Pfeiffer, ...
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An $8 million judgment was entered by the Superior Court of New Hanover County, N.C., for a patient who was sexually assaulted by her dentist while she was under anesthesia. The patient was having her wisdom teeth extracted at Wilmington ...
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In October 2022, a teen who was badly injured in a boating wreck two years prior, was awarded a $3,148,000 settlement for her physical and emotional trauma. One week before the plaintiff was scheduled to begin her freshman year of ...
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An autistic girl and her family were awarded $4.9 million after the girl was beaten by caregivers that resulted in serious injuries. In 2016 an autistic, non-verbal 15-year-old girl with developmental and intellectual disabilities, and explosive disorder, living in an ...
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