Results are in from February’s bar exam, and the state’s first in-person exam since the summer of 2020 saw 175 law graduates pass the exam, out of 348 who sat for it, for a pass rate of 50.3 percent. The ...
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A Union County jury has awarded $250,000 to a Marshville woman who was struck by a car while viewing Christmas lights. Adrienne Blocker of DeMayo Law Offices in Charlotte said that her client, Marilyn Ridnouer, was viewing holiday decorations in ...
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A dispute stemming from a toxic mold problem allegedly caused by airflow issues in a newly constructed home has resulted in a $450,000 global settlement, the homeowners’ attorneys report. Ed Gaskins and Katie King of Everett Gaskins Hancock Raleigh in ...
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A district court properly approved the settlement of a long-running class action lawsuit brought by life insurance policyholders, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, rejecting the objection by a single policyholder and laying down for the first ...
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Two North Carolina law schools made modest jumps in the latest U.S. News & World Report Best Law School rankings, which were announced on March 29. After taking a significant drop several years ago, Wake Forest has been steadily climbing ...
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Defendants who’ve pleaded guilty of a crime are entitled to post-conviction DNA testing if they’ve shown that the results could be material to their case, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled in a case of first impression. The March ...
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A habitual felon sentencing enhancement doesn’t reclassify underlying felonies to higher-level felonies, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has unanimously ruled in a case of first impression, finding that a trial court erroneously applied a further sentencing enhancement for serious ...
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A service technician who was unwilling to move to a different state to take on less strenuous work after being injured on the job wasn’t entitled to unemployment benefits because his decision to leave work wasn’t attributable to his employer, ...
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Our Top Verdicts & Settlements list for 2021 is the first—and, hopefully, only—list that was fully impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. As that year began, none of us really knew what it had in store for the legal profession. But ...
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A trial court had the authority to award attorneys’ fees after it reversed a state commission’s denial of a permit challenge, a divided panel of the North Carolina Appeals Court has ruled. In 2019, the North Carolina Division of Coastal ...
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