North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  A subcontractor that was held liable in tort for damages it had caused on a construction project was correctly denied a credit for payments that had been made to the general contractor by a different subcontractor because of the ...

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  Interest rates are currently at historic lows for almost every type of debt, and figure to remain there for quite some time. But there’s one exception to the new low-interest world. In North Carolina pre-judgment and post-judgment interest rates ...

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A federal jury has awarded $10.65 million to a North Carolina engineering company after finding that another company took its plans for a new product and used them to secure patents by wrongly portraying the technology as its own invention. ...

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  The trouble between the 82-year-old husband and his 78-year-old wife had been brewing for a long time, but it finally hit its boiling point over a cup of coffee. The husband wanted a cup of coffee before they headed ...

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  The North Carolina Department of Transportation had proper notice that a ditch needed to be cleared before water run-off created the black ice that caused a wreck, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled. Barbara Sigler was driving ...

  A father and daughter convicted of the murder of the daughter’s husband should have been allowed to introduce evidence of self-defense, including statements by the husband’s children about his violent temper and testimony to support the father’s fear of ...

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  A man who was injured when he was hit nearly head-on while plowing snow has settled a pre-lawsuit claim with two insurance carriers for $1 million, his attorneys report. Bob Lucas and Sarah Ellerbe of Lucas, Denning and & ...

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By Kyle Scharoll The global pandemic has changed the practice of law in the U.S. and worldwide. Lockdowns forced firms to close offices, prompting mass work-from-home migrations for attorneys and staff. Thanks to laptops, mobile devices and Wi-Fi availability, the ...

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BY GARY PARSONS Most lawyers are well aware of and sensitive to protecting attorney-client privilege. We need to remember, however, that the Rules of Professional Conduct are broader than the privilege and impose confidentiality obligations on all that we learn ...

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It’s now been more than a year since the Lawyers Weekly team has assembled in our old office. Like so many of you, we’ve had to adapt to a world of working remotely, and it hasn’t always been easy. So ...

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