Asheville attorney Jacqueline Grant was sworn in as the 124th president of the North Carolina Bar Association June 23 at the organization’s annual meeting in Wilmington. At the same meeting, LeAnn Brown, of Chapel Hill was chosen to for ...

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Numerous awards were presented at the North Carolina Bar Association’s Annual Meeting held the weekend of June 21-24 in Wilmington. Here is a complete list of award recipients: J. Rich Leonard, the dean of Campbell Law School in Raleigh, was ...

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A 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge was recently presented with the North Carolina Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division’s Liberty Bell award. Judge James A. Wynn Jr. was given the award during Law Day 2018 festivities in Raleigh. The ...

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  Allan B. Head, who served as executive director of the North Carolina Bar Association for 35 years, died Feb. 17. He was 73. Head served the NCBA for 43 years, first as executive secretary beginning in 1973 and then ...

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The North Carolina Bar Association’s 10th annual 4ALL Statewide Service Day will take place on Friday, March 3. The program allows members of the public to talk for free to a lawyer. The lawyer volunteers provide legal information and referral ...

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It’s autumn, and the view from Allan Head’s office is sweeping brushstrokes of red, orange and yellow against the glimmer-glass of Lake Crabtree. He speaks of the North Carolina Bar Center in which we sit—50,000 square feet of space situated ...

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Catharine Biggs Arrowood will focus on issues of judicial independence and funding for the state courts and legal aid during her tenure as president of the North Carolina Bar Association. She was sworn in as president June 21 at the ...

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The new leaders of the North Carolina Bar Association have set an ambitious agenda for themselves and the group, focusing on the challenges facing the state’s attorneys and educational institutions.

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A measure introduced in the General Assembly last week would create a hybrid system of selecting judges that would combine a screening committee with elections by the public - the first system of its kind in the nation. The legislation was crafted by the NCBA Committee for Judicial Independence, co-chaired by former N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Jim Exum and John Wester (pictured), past president of the NCBA. "This bill, if enacted and approved by the people, will greatly improve the way we select judges in North Carolina," Exum said in a prepared statement.

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Over 470 attorneys, law students and paralegals from across the state fielded telephone calls from the public on March 4, taking questions about everything from child custody to foreclosures to prisoner's rights. The event was the N.C. Bar Association's 4ALL Statewide Service Day, an annual event started four years ago by then-President Janet Ward Black. Call centers were staffed by volunteers in Asheville, Charlotte, Greensboro, Greenville, Raleigh and Wilmington. An additional call center was available for Spanish-speaking callers.

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