The U.S. women’s soccer team’s July 5 triumph over Japan in the World Cup finals capped a tournament that was everything the team’s players could have dreamt of—except, perhaps, in one important way. Unlike every previous men’s and women’s Cup, ...

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CHARLOTTE (AP) — Some Charlotte businesses are proposing protections for employees who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. The Charlotte Observer reported that the Charlotte Business Guild proposed a three-part plan Tuesday. The plan includes publicizing businesses that voluntarily provide ...

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By SYLVIA ADCOCK, Staff Writer [email protected]   An amendment to the Rules of Professional Conduct that said lawyers should not discriminate has been rejected without comment by the N.C. Supreme Court. The move by the justices in an administrative meeting ...

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The N.C. Supreme Court has rejected an amendment to the preamble of the Rules of Professional Conduct that would ban discrimination by lawyers. The move by the justices in an administrative meeting last week means the issue is dead. Any changes to the rules must be approved by the Supreme Court. The court does not have to give reasons for rejecting a change, and it did not give any this time. "That will essentially be the end of it," said Tom Lunsford (pictured), executive director of the State Bar.

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By CORREY STEPHENSON, Lawyers USA, the national sister paper of Lawyers Weekly [email protected] Race remains an important – and an awkward – subject in the United States, which makes it that much harder for lawyers to address with jurors. Should ...

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The Ethics Committee of the State Bar considered a controversial amendment to the preamble to the Rules of Professional Conduct at its quarterly meeting late last week in Pinehurst. The original amended language provided that a lawyer, "[w]hile employed in a professional capacity ... should avoid knowingly manifesting through word or deed or bias or prejudice based upon a person's race, gender, national origin, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status or other protected status or personal characteristic." Alice Mine (pictured) serves as ethics counsel for the State Bar. [...]

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North Carolina lawyers will soon have an opportunity to scrutinize a revised version of last year’s controversial proposal to add an anti-discrimination provision to the Rules of Professional Conduct. The State Bar Council recently approved the ethics committee’s request to ...

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