North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

North Carolina Lawyers Weekly would like to congratulate each of the bar applicants who passed the February 2021 North Carolina bar exam. The following names were provided by the North Carolina Board of Law Examiners to recognize those who passed ...

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A growth spurt over the last year has propelled Moore & Van Allen to the top spot in the North Carolina Lawyers Weekly’s roster of the largest law firm in the state. Moore & Van Allen added 28 attorneys last ...

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1. Moore & Van Allen 100 N. Tryon Street, Suite 4700 Charlotte, NC 28202 (704) 331-1000 www.mvalaw.com 299 attorneys Members: 155 Associates: 95 Of counsel: 40 Other attorneys: 9 North Carolina offices: Charlotte (299) 2. Womble Bond Dickinson   One ...

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  Nearly three years after a federal jury found that Walmart had infringed a competitor’s trademark in marketing its line of barbecue grills, an appeals court has determined that the trial wasn’t well done. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

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Looking to advance racial equity and help reconstruct a deeply imbalanced system, nearly 300 law firms across the country have joined the Law Firm Antiracism Alliance, a collaborative, pro bono project formed last summer after several events sparked nationwide protests ...

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When the North Carolina Board of Law Examiners announced that it would organize the state’s first ever remotely-conducted bar exam this February, exam-takers had to grapple with all kinds of questions. How is this thing going to work? How will ...

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  A retail chain referenced in a credit card agreement between a bank and the store’s customer can’t compel arbitration as a third-party beneficiary to the contract, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has unanimously ruled, the latest turn in ...

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The elected district attorney for Bladen, Brunswick, and Columbus counties has been named as the defendant in a civil lawsuit alleging that he seduced and had a sexual relationship with a married former Bladen County Commissioner, according to court records ...

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  A public housing authority that simply cited a vaguely-worded clause in a tenant’s lease as grounds for her eviction failed to give her legally sufficient notice of the specific reasons for the eviction, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ...

A Johnston County man who had his plea bargain rescinded and got more than three years tacked onto his prison sentence because he was a bit more than an hour late for his sentencing hearing will have his plea bargain ...