A couple who put down a $46,000 deposit for an unbuilt house based on a model home got their deposit back after claiming that the builder tried to charge them for items that were already included in the contact and ...
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Womble Bond Dickinson One W. Fourth Street Winston-Salem, NC 27101 (336) 721-3600 www.womblebonddickinson.com/us 289 attorneys Partners: 142 Associates: 57 Of counsel: 25 Other attorneys: 65 North Carolina offices: Winston-Salem (119), Raleigh (66), Charlotte (64), Durham (25), Greensboro (15) Starting pay ...
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2019 saw an ever-so-slight increase in the number of attorneys working at the state’s largest law firms, according to the 2019 North Carolina Largest Law Firms survey, while the top five firms on the list remained the same from ...
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A vague, anonymous tip a police officer had received about an undescribed white male engaged in undescribed suspicious activity in a parking lot didn’t provide the officer with enough reasonable suspicion to detain a black male he encountered in the ...
Tagged with: Judge Lucy Inman North Carolina Court of Appeals
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The grievance petition of a former Charlotte-area probation officer who claims he was fired without cause must be allowed to continue, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled. Judge John Tyson, writing for a unanimous panel, said that while ...
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Neither semantics on an indictment nor a prosecutor’s characterization of a defendant as a “homicidal manipulative sociopath” are enough to warrant him a new trial for stabbing a homeless shelter volunteer, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled. In ...
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Cheslie Kryst, an attorney with Poyner Spruill, is spending much of her time this month preparing for the tough questions she’ll get from a panel of judges on May 2—even though she won’t be appearing in any courtroom that day. ...
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A federal jury in North Carolina has found that a Monroe-based refrigerator filter manufacturer infringed on Whirlpool and Maytag Properties’ trademarks and owes them over $5.8 million in damages, attorneys for the plaintiffs report. Whirlpool alleged that Filters Fast LLC ...
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When the CEO of QuadrigaCX, a Canadian cryptocurrency exchange company, died unexpectedly in December, hundreds of millions of dollars of its customers’ money may have perished with him. The CEO, Gerald Cotten, was the only person at the company who ...
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The estate of a man who was beaten to death by his wife and father-in-law has settled a wrongful death lawsuit in Davidson County Superior Court for $750,000, the estate’s attorney said. David Pishko of Winston-Salem said that the ...
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North Carolina Lawyers Weekly
