A North Carolina law that prohibits corporations from engaging in the practice of law has survived a constitutional challenge brought by a trade association that had been seeking to provide legal services to its members. The 4th U.S. Circuit ...

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An Asheville attorney who was suspended from the practice of law last year after handing over more than $30,000 in client funds to fraudsters posing as an investment firm now stands accused of engaging in the unauthorized practice of law during ...

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The court suspects that a Georgia lawyer engaged in the unauthorized practice of law by ghostwriting the plaintiff-corporation’s proposed pretrial order and its trial brief. The court denies the lawyer’s last-minute application for pro hac vice admission and refers this ...

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The LegalZoom.com customers who joined in a now-defunct class-action lawsuit against the self-help legal website are going to have to arbitrate their remaining unauthorized practice of law claims.

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Conner v. Duncan (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-03-0291, 10 pp.) (Joi Elizabeth Peake, USMJ) 1:12-cv-00092; M.D.N.C. Holding: Although plaintiff is an inmate of a prison in Pennsylvania, he is still considered a resident of Virginia. Where the Virginia corporation plaintiff named ...

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Lawmakers are considering a pair of bills that tweak the definition of the practice of law, but it remains unclear whether the proposed changes spell the end of a closely watched lawsuit pitting LegalZoom.com against the North Carolina State Bar.

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Representatives of the North Carolina State Bar and archrival LegalZoom.com have resumed discussions about a bill that could end their feud by altering the state’s unauthorized practice of law statutes.

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In the fall of 2012, a retired real estate broker named Mary Ella Hutchinson formed a small group dedicated to helping people in Franklin County save their homes from foreclosure.

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LegalZoom is trumpeting the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Feb. 25 against the North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners, while an attorney for the state bar dismisses the opinion as being virtually meaningless to LegalZoom’s case.

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Lawyers and taxi drivers have a lot in common these days. Cabbies are irked over Uber, an app that undercuts drivers’ prices by funneling business to part-timers. The company has spawned protests by outraged drivers, but also a horde of ...

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