LegalReader

APRIL 6, 2022

North Carolina is one of only four states that follows a system of “contributory negligence” – five if you count the District of Columbia.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney LLP has added a litigator from Michael Best & Friedrich LLP in its Charlotte, North Carolina, office, with the firm touting the attorney's hire as part of its growth plans in the city.

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JURIST

APRIL 27, 2022

Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit to allow the policy to remain in place while litigation is still going on to finish reviewing applications, to which the Court agreed. In response Virginia Attorney General Jason S. The court has also agreed to hear a case regarding the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? Colorado courts have a dedicated page for "Efiling for Non-Attorneys" at: [link] There are links to forms and video/written tutorials listed. We share what we found below.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 7, 2022

Catherine Sanders Reach (@catherinereach) is Director of the Center for Practice Management for the North Carolina Bar Association, providing practice technology and management assistance. Because, as the ABA survey made clear, small firm data security is usually handled by the assigned attorney.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2022

That sets up a situation in hundreds of civil legal cases involving small claims suits, evictions and other minor disputes, where the only individual in the courtroom who is aware of the law is the attorney for the prosecution, say the authors of the paper, Sara Sternberg Greene and Kristen Renberg, both of the Duke University School of Law.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When the insurance adjuster looks into your case, they will be searching for any pretext to minimize the value of your case or deny it altogether.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 28, 2022

North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP (March 21): Whether Republican legislators who wanted to intervene to defend the North Carolina’s voter ID law were required to show that the state’s interest was not adequately represented by the state’s Democratic attorney general.

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The Crime Report

MAY 19, 2022

Many of them collaborate closely with defense attorneys on case reinvestigation and resolution, exonerating defendants who otherwise had few remaining options. My recent research relies on interviews with prosecutors and defense attorneys from 36 different jurisdictions. Holding Bad Actors Accountable.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Prepare yourself for a tough battle because large trucking companies can afford very good lawyers. If you go alone, you don’t stand a chance.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 27, 2021

Prior to joining LAWPRO, he was a policy lawyer at the Law Society of Ontario and practiced litigation with a focus on professional liability, public law and civil disputes. Are you generating a motion that will require a supervising attorney to comment, review and approve? Heidi Alexander: Starting Off Your Week With Monday.com.

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 15, 2022

Catherine Sanders Reach (@catherinereach) is Director of the Center for Practice Management for the North Carolina Bar Association, providing practice technology and management assistance. The post Lawyer Tech Tips: Productivity and Connectivity Tools appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 5, 2025

This list of credited co-authors includes: Lea Brilmayer (Yale Law School) John Coyle (University of North Carolina School of Law) William S. He also considersand rightly rejectsthe notion that this is an area about which practicing attorneys can easily educate themselves. It can be downloaded here.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Courtroom5 , a platform that helps self-represented litigants navigate complex civil litigation matters, licensed their tech to NCCU Law for classroom use and is in development on a new platform slated for release in spring 2024. descrybe.ai , a free generative-AI legal search engine, has summarized 1.8

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 20, 2023

Plaintiff attorneys are paid on contingency, and the amount is limited by the laws of the state. Stage of case Defense firms are generally hired once the case has gone to or is about to go to, litigation. Some are unhappy no matter what you do and sometimes even when their attorney gets them a fair settlement on their case.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The lawsuit claims that Cawthorn, the one-term Republican politician accused of participating in the January 6 riots, failed to pay his "high-powered" conservative attorney an estimated $190,000 in legal fees.

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Connor Reporting

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Whether your complex case is in the area of bankruptcy, intellectual property, antitrust, construction defect, class action, international trade, business litigation or any other area of complex litigation — there are key tools that can set your case up for success. The Wisconsin BBE accredits all Veritext programs for 1.0

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LegalReader

MAY 20, 2021

Attorneys say that The Citadel's ownership under-staffed the facility and did not adhere to proper coronavirus mitigation guidance.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The measures range from requiring certification that prosecutors have followed the rules of discovery to eliminating the “absolute” immunity from lawsuits currently granted to prosecuting attorneys. Errors of procedure, failure to file appropriate paperwork, missed communications with defense attorneys or the judge are common examples.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

7 warning that “any proposal that would materially change current consumer protections for clients receiving legal services and fundamentally alter the sacrosanct principles of the attorney-client relationship would be heavily scrutinized by our committees.”. Tom Umberg, D-Santa Ana, wrote a letter to bar leaders on Dec. Lee Partners.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Honeywell moved to transfer the case to the Western District of North Carolina under 28 U.S.C. The court held that the “incremental gains” in judicial economy were insufficient to justify the inconvenience of litigating in an improper venue. Lone Star SCM Systems, Ltd. Honeywell International Inc., Docket No. 6:21-cv-00843 (W.D.

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LegalTalkNetwork

MARCH 4, 2020

In so doing, the attorney activates an application that helps gather client information with ease while also integrating with existing practice management platforms. Forecast-Alytics: Understanding Litigation Analytics for Case Evaluation. Stay tuned to hear about potential growth in litigation finance. The future is nigh!

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2022

Below is my column in the Hill on the litigation over the new admissions policy at the elite Thomas Jefferson High School in Fairfax, Virginia. The Court’s consideration of admissions challenges at Harvard and the University of North Carolina may bring greater clarity for higher education. Done: Instant equity.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

For example, as of August 2016, North Carolina had 1,173 MW of installed solar photovoltaic (“PV”) capacity as a direct result of PURPA. Jeffrey Hammons is an Associate Attorney at the Environmental Law & Policy Center in Chicago, IL, where his litigation practice covers issues of pollution control and energy law.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

7 warning that “any proposal that would materially change current consumer protections for clients receiving legal services and fundamentally alter the sacrosanct principles of the attorney-client relationship would be heavily scrutinized by our committees.”. Tom Umberg, D-Santa Ana, wrote a letter to bar leaders on Dec. Lee Partners.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 21, 2022

After the law went into effect over a veto by the state’s governor, Democrat Roy Cooper, the North Carolina NAACP went to federal court, arguing that the law violates both federal voting rights laws and the Constitution. The attorney general is defending the law and arguing that it is constitutional. In Berger v. But the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP addresses the ability of North Carolina legislators to defend the state’s voter-ID law from lawsuits under the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP. The en banc U.S. Broadnax v. Issue : Whether, under 28 U.S.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

and North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation v. A federal district court in North Carolina ultimately invalidated much of the law, and the U.S. The Farm Bureau and North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein ask the court to grant review and reverse the 4th Circuit’s decision. relisted after the Sept.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 21, 2022

Much of Sedaris’s humor is ostensibly autobiographical and self-deprecating and often concerns his family life, his middle-class upbringing in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina, his Greek heritage, homosexuality, jobs, education, drug use, and obsessive behaviors as well as his life in France, London, and the South Downs in England. .

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Share Walter Dellinger, a constitutional scholar and skilled advocate who argued 24 cases at the Supreme Court, died on Wednesday at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. North Carolina Governor. Kristin and I mourn the passing of Walter Dellinger, a brilliant scholar, attorney, public servant, and friend.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2022

This includes figures who can share first-hand accounts of their roles in historic events, like former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was effectively blocked from speaking at the University of Illinois; former Vice President Mike Pence was targeted at Stanford University. The investigations and attacks never stopped.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2022

University of North Carolina , 21-707. ” After Axon Enterprise acquired a competitor, it found itself subjected to antitrust review by the Federal Trade Commission. The company faced a series of demands from the FTC it viewed as unreasonable. Holcombe v. Florida , 21-53. CVSG: 12/8/2021. relisted after the Jan. 14 conferences).

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP , 21-248. The case addresses the ability of North Carolina legislators to intervene to defend the state’s voter-ID law from lawsuits under the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. They continue to argue that the state attorney general is not adequately defending the law.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Below is my Hill column on the current litigation controversies around the country. We are still watching litigation playing out just a day before the election. They often refuse challengers access to vital election board information or bar cases as speculative or litigants as lacking in standing. Jamie Raskin (D.,

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Tools like Legal Aid of North Carolinas Legal Information Assistant and the Nevada Supreme Courts AI chatbot are helping self-represented litigants navigate the system more easily. While AI isnt a magic fix, it does show promise in small but meaningful ways.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 27, 2025

This would be a slam dunk if Cheney had been acting as a prosecutor or opposing counsel, and if a congressional investigation were actual litigation. “The Court is hard pressed to see how an attorneys advice to his client not to lie to Congress is a ‘private fact’ in any sense,” she wrote.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 16, 2022

Matthew Woods (a former intern) expressed interest in an open position for a staff attorney with the clinic and disclosed to the director of the clinic that he was currently in a same-sex relationship; he also indicated he was not attending church and provided no reference from a pastor. City and County of San Francisco and Berger v.

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