Alan Woodlief, interim dean, and professor of law at Elon University School of Law, has seen the growth of the legal industry in the Carolinas firsthand.  The reason behind the growth? The addition of “big law,” and national firms setting ...

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Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani has added Samuel G. (“Bo”) Thompson Jr. as a partner in the firm’s Raleigh office, according to a news release.   He is a North Carolina native whose practice areas include professional liability defense, health care, agribusiness ...

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Michael Best announces that Brian Crawford has joined the firm’s Real Estate Team as a partner in the Durham office, and Jack Wiggen has joined the firm’s Corporate Practice Group as senior counsel in the Wilmington office.   Crawford and Wiggen ...

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By Teri Saylor, Correspondent  Greg Strickland chuckles when he recalls the extraordinary measures his law firm’s residential real estate attorneys took just to collect signatures on closing packages when the Covid-19 pandemic shut down businesses everywhere in 2020.  As firm ...

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North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein signed a letter in opposition to pending federal legislation that he said would allow debt collection attorneys to use the state courts to intimidate customers into paying. The pending litigation Stein opposes is the ...

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Mitchell, Brewer, Richardson, Adams, Burge & Boughman v. Brewer (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-230-17, 29 pp.) (Mark Davis, J.) Appealed from Cumberland County Superior Court (John Jolly Jr., J.) N.C. App. Holding: At no point during the two years between the ...

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Mitchell, Brewer, Richardson, Adams, Burge & Boughman v. Brewer (Lawyers Weekly No. 020-019-16, 11 pp.) (John Jolly Jr., J.) 2016 NCBC 18 Holding: Defendants’ counterclaims are based on the premise that the individual plaintiffs had not withdrawn from, and that ...

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Edward Winslow III knew early on that he wanted to stray from the family business. His father was in the horse-and-mule business and eventually became a farmer. “What I learned about farming caused me to develop an interest in other ...

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Evolving technology and lessons learned in the wake of the Great Recession have conspired to change the model of law firm staffing. Traditionally, every lawyer at a firm had his own secretary and often a paralegal as well. Today, only ...

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The country is coming out of one of the worst recessions in decades. In addition to dealing with a sea change in the legal profession, many firms are positioning themselves for a healthy future.

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