By Jason Thomas jthomas@scbiznews.com  The North Carolina Bar Association Litigation Section recently honored Young Moore’s Walter E. Brock Jr. as the 14th recipient of The Advocate’s Award, according to a Young Moore news release.  Presented as merited, and ...

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Dr. Charles Cooper of Pittsboro was selected by the North Carolina Bar Association as this year’s recipient of the NCBA’s John Medlin Jr. Award. The award goes to North Carolina residents who are not lawyers who make contributions to the ...

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The North Carolina Bar Association will induct three new members into the General Practice Hall of Fame at this year’s annual meeting in Wilmington. The three inductees are D. Wesley Bailey Sr., of Winston-Salem, Nancy Norelli, of Charlotte and J. ...

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A Raleigh city attorney received an award for excellence during a recent North Carolina Bar Association Government & Public Sector meeting. Thomas A. McCormick Jr. was given the Grainger Barrett Award for Excellence at the annual meeting on April 12 ...

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The North Carolina Bar Association Board of Governors met April 13-14 to elect five representatives to serve as vice presidents in 2018-2019. The Board chose Judge Richard D. Dietz from the North Carolina Court of Appeals in Raleigh, Judge Michael ...

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Barbara Ann Davis of Asheville was honored posthumously March 16 as the 2018 Dispute Resolution Section of the NC Bar Association’s Peace Award winner. Davis’s colleague Sarah Corley accepted the award on her behalf at the section’s annual meeting and ...

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North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Robin Hudson was presented April 6 with the 2018 John McNeill Smith Jr. Constitutional Rights and Responsibilities Section Award. Hudson received the award during the North Carolina Bar Association section’s annual meeting and CLE at ...

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In a rebuttal to the oft-made joke that lawyers have no heart, the North Carolina legal community is once again set to collect hundreds of thousands of pounds of food for low-income residents in North Carolina. The latest collection effort ...

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Lawyers who responded to the North Carolina Bar Association’s latest performance evaluation of district and superior court judges who are up for re-election probably noticed that something was different about the preamble to this year’s survey. The message included a ...

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Shortly before the general election, a top N.C. Bar Association official said that voter participation in the judicial races would be a good indicator of whether people paid attention to its first ever publicly released performance evaluation of judge candidates.

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