A slowdown in the number of attorneys admitted to the North Carolina State Bar is one factor driving a proposal that will likely increase annual bar membership dues to $350 for the next fiscal year. Attorneys currently pay $325 ...

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The North Carolina State Bar’s executive director is resigning in a year — and it’s likely, though not yet certain, that the agency’s assistant director will be chosen as the successor. Tom Lunsford, who has served on the State Bar ...

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North Carolina’s 24th judicial district has a new interim bar president who is intent on making some significant changes. “I’m coming into this to revitalize this bar,” said Anne Fisher, a partner at Henson Fuerst in Boone. She was elected ...

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The North Carolina State Bar has a rather complicated and peculiar relationship with the state Supreme Court. While most state bars operate within the shadow of their high courts, which have the ultimate authority to regulate the local legal profession, ...

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Here is a list of those who passed the February 2016 State Bar Exam. Interested in subscribing for more information like this? Click here!   Meghan Leigh Abernathy, Charlotte, NC John Julian Aldridge IV, Garner, NC Andrew Paul Alexander, Durham, ...

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Raleigh lawyer Gene Boyce is suing the North Carolina State Bar for failing to refer his ethical complaint against state Attorney General Roy Cooper to an independent investigator. Boyce said in a recent interview that the state bar created a ...

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The North Carolina State Bar has brought a big gun to its standoff with LegalZoom.com and an unrelated company, Capital Associated Industries. Alan Duncan, the immediate past president of the North Carolina Bar Association, began representing the state bar July ...

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The increasingly contentious relationship between LegalZoom.com and the North Carolina State Bar is taking on shades of the doomed marriage of Oliver and Barbara Rose in the 1989 dark comedy “The War of the Roses.”

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RALEIGH (AP) — An attorney who represented the first person in North Carolina released from prison after a being found innocent by a special judicial panel now faces charges herself from the group that regulates lawyers. The North Carolina State ...

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Representatives of LegalZoom.com, a popular self-help legal website, and the North Carolina State Bar cannot seem to agree on the ramifications of a pending bill that would tweak the statutory definition of what it means to practice law in this state, despite the fact that both camps had a hand in crafting the legislation.

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