North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Mark Martin, the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, is stepping down from the bench on Feb. 28 to become dean of Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia, the Administrative Office of the Courts said ...

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  An Archdale restaurant owner wasn’t properly served with notice of a lawsuit in a Pennsylvania court, and so a default judgment rendered against him has been ruled invalid by the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Judge Mark Davis, writing ...

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The 180-day waiting period that federal employees must adhere to before filing a discrimination lawsuit against their employer begins upon filing an initial complaint, and not upon each subsequent amendment to that complaint, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

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  More than 200 undocumented immigrants have been quietly relocated across the country to a jail in North Charleston, South Carolina, a move that some local immigration attorneys are contending was done in an attempt to limit their right to ...

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They call it a “virtual deposition room.” As law firms look to cut costs and improve efficiency, a Raleigh-based company is now offering a web-based platform that allows attorneys to depose parties remotely, even across the continent, with no stenographer ...

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The insurer for a driver who caused a collision in Davidson County won’t be able to use the injured plaintiff’s underinsured motorist coverage to reduce the amount of the judgment owed to the plaintiff, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ...

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  Plaintiffs with disabilities cannot sue credit unions that they are not members of, and cannot become members of, for failing to make their websites accessible under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ...

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The legal community’s efforts to help ensure that attorneys stay well, both mentally and physically, has become a movement during the past few years. While there has long been help for attorneys suffering from or at risk for substance abuse, ...

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  North Carolina’s most prominent attorneys packed the gallery of the state’s Supreme Court in Raleigh to honor the state’s most powerful judicial body on Jan. 7 as it convened a special session to commemorate its 200th year. In 1818, ...

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  It’s the responsibility of the state, and not local counties, to preserve the state’s constitutional right to a public education, the North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled unanimously in the latest in a series of lawsuits concerning how the ...

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