North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Jun 4, 2025

SC court backs volunteer housing advocates program

SC Supreme Court approves pilot program for volunteer housing advocates to help tenants facing eviction and improve access to justice statewide.

Dec 12, 2024

Navigating the ethics of digital advertising and solicitation

By Sari W. Montgomery In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, attorneys and law firms are increasingly turning to third-party marketing professionals, online platforms and social media for advertising and soliciting […]

Oct 7, 2024

Legal community aids recovery from Helene’s devastation

The state’s bar, court system and legal community are continuing their efforts to restore services and help residents of Hurricane Helene-ravaged Western North Carolina. One key step has been taken […]

Apr 19, 2024

VIDEO: Paralegals’ role, authority could be poised to grow

There could be areas where paralegals’ authority is broadened, allowing them to handle some responsibilities now restricted to lawyers, helping firms increase their revenue, freeing up lawyers to handle weightier matters and easing problems such as access to justice.

May 2, 2019

State’s UPL ban upheld by 4th Circuit

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 […]

Aug 16, 2018

New disciplinary complaint brought against Exum

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 […]

Jul 23, 2018

Attorneys – Georgia Lawyer – Unauthorized Practice of Law – Pro Hac Vice Application

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 […]

Jul 1, 2015

Arbitration ordered in LegalZoom class action

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.

Apr 3, 2015

Civil Practice — Federal Jurisdiction – Diversity – Defunct Corporation – Attorneys – Tort/Negligence – Fraud

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 […]

Apr 2, 2015

Confusion over LegalZoom bills persists

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.

Mar 19, 2015

Back to the drawing board

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.

Mar 6, 2015

Finding the line between helping and lawyering

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.