North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

State v. Rice. (Lawyers Weekly No. 10-16-0406, 17 pp.) (Robert C. Hunter, J.) Appealed from Mecklenburg County Superior Court (Timothy L. Patti, J.). N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: The trial court properly admitted a hearsay statement by the victim that the ...

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E.B. Harris, Inc. v. Wiggins. (Lawyers Weekly No. 10-16-0405, 13 pp.) (Linda M. McGee, J.) Appealed from Warren County District Court (Randolph Baskerville, J.). N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Where the defendant timely filed a motion for an extension of time ...

Tagged with: Civil Practice Default Judgment

North Carolina lawyers will soon have an opportunity to scrutinize a revised version of last year’s controversial proposal to add an anti-discrimination provision to the Rules of Professional Conduct. The State Bar Council recently approved the ethics committee’s request to ...

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Cloud-computing applications, or “software as a service,” are widely touted as being flexible, efficient and cost-cutting tools for managing a legal practice. But does a lawyer’s use of these web-based applications run the risk of compromising the privacy and security ...

Tagged with: cloud computing Ethics Ethics Committee Ethics Opinion Rules Of Professional Conduct

A graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law, Mark Davis is special deputy attorney general in the N.C. Department of Justice. [...]

Tagged with: professionalism Q&A Real Property

Pinched by recession, the total lawyer count at North Carolina’s 25 largest firms has contracted slightly over the past year, although most firm leaders say that the future looks rosier than the recent past. “The economy has impacted everyone,” said ...

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Because buyers in residential real estate transactions have a better opportunity to protect themselves from attorney embezzlement than sellers, they should bear the risk of loss, the Supreme Court has ruled in a 5-2 decision. The ruling aligns with the ...

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Largest firms survey reveals dip in numbers, but optimism is returning. Pinched by recession, the total in-state lawyer count at North Carolina’s 25 largest firms has contracted slightly over the past year, although most firm leaders say that the future ...

Tagged with: Charlotte Large Firms Recession

The Charlotte School of Law hosted a free clinic on April 17 for homebuyers defrauded by Beazer Home Mortgage. The school’s Public Interest Law Society sponsored the event. Under a deferred-prosecution agreement entered in 2009 in the U.S. District Court ...

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RALEIGH — North Carolina’s prison officials have opened the gates for some of more than two dozen inmates sentenced in the 1970s to life in prison even as state officials fight in court to keep them locked up. One of ...