Smithfield attorney Dionne Fortner, the current president of the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys, discusses the group's focus areas for this year. She also talks about some of the accomplishments women have made in the profession, and what challenges lie ahead.

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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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Dan Ellison (pictured) graduated from UNC Law School in 1984 with the same anxiety about passing the bar exam that all lawyers-to-be face at the beginning of their careers. But it wasn't just a commonplace case of the nerves for him. On the contrary, he faced a worry that an unknown number of his classmates might have faced at the same time - whether being gay would affect his ability to become an attorney in North Carolina.

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Concerns over a proposal to add controversial nondiscrimination language to the preamble of the Rules of Professional Conduct occupied the State Bar's Ethics Committee at its recent quarterly meeting in Pinehurst. Michael Robinson (pictured) sought to clarify that the language would be merely aspirational.

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