North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  A woman who had to end her teaching career after she was hit head-on by an elderly driver has won a $2.1 million jury verdict against the driver’s estate.  Tomasine McAllister, 62, was driving on a rural road in ...

Tagged with: Automobile Accident

An eggplant is an eggplant—unless it’s an emoji. The plain, pear-shaped American version of the vegetable sat in obscurity until its digital reinvention into a bright purple Japanese eggplant emoji elevated its status for reasons that have nothing to do ...

Tagged with: emoji

A new state law will allow victims of human trafficking in North Carolina to sue the people who reaped the financial benefits from their servitude. HB 198 will also give the victims further room to expunge or vacate convictions for ...

Tagged with: Human Trafficking

  A Candler attorney known for being the director of an organization called “Bar Watch” that works to give wider publicity to his quarrel with the North Carolina State Bar will have to do any future bar-watching from the outside ...

Tagged with: Bar Watch

  The impasse between the North Carolina General Assembly and Gov. Roy Cooper hasn’t prevented lawmakers from passing several unrelated but significant pieces of legislation. Cooper recently signed into law two bills with important ramifications for the legal profession. One ...

Tagged with: NC Legislature

It’s been a long and winding road for the North Carolina attorneys representing hundreds of property owners left in limbo after the state reserved their properties for future highway improvements. Now, clients of Neil Yarborough of Yarborough, Winters & Neville ...

Tagged with: Map Act

A former manufacturing plant janitor who was severely burned after a machine exploded has confidentially settled a lawsuit against the plant’s owner for $9.2 million after successfully arguing that he was an employee of the temporary employment agency that gave ...

  A new proposed ethics opinion would let attorneys accept Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a flat-fee payment for legal services—but only under some tight restrictions that will likely ensure that few clients are reaching into their virtual wallets to ...

Tagged with: Bitcoin

  Flashbang grenades—the explosive devices often used by police or military units to disorient a target’s senses before an engagement—are not, despite their name, a “weapon of mass death and destruction” under North Carolina law, the state’s Court of Appeals ...

Tagged with: flashbang grenade weapons

  A land investment company can move forward with a lawsuit against an Orange County mining company that may have exaggerated the dangerous effects that its blasting would have on a proposed subdivision nearby, the North Carolina Court of Appeals ...

Tagged with: real estate