The United States Supreme Court recently decided a case about the limits of a State’s power to tax a trust. In North Carolina v. Kaestner, Justice Sotomayor and a majority of the Court affirmed the decision of the North Carolina […]
The North Carolina Rules of Practice were amended this week to permit parental leave for attorneys. The announcement was made by Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley who said that parental leave is now available for attorneys practicing in North […]
Sam Tate (right) and Mike Lotz (left) worked for the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts to help develop its new website launched in 2018. The experience laid the foundation for Raleigh-based Civvis a complementary business of creating paperless […]
“myFirmData might be based in Raleigh, NC, but the product was born in New Orleans,” said co-founder Pegeen Turner, a Raleigh-based legal technology consultant. During the 2017 Clio Conference in New Orleans, the company announced a Launch//Code contest to look […]
William “Billy” Lassiter, NC deputy secretary for Juvenile Justice, has a message for state lawmakers who are now working on the 2019-20 budget. “Now that you have passed Raise the Age, you did the right thing. But it’s only the […]
Sonja Ebron and Debra Slone each got a first-hand lesson about the challenges of representing themselves in civil court as laypersons. When Slone returned a rental car in 2007, the company charged her for an earlier client’s dent. When she […]
Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Bradley B. Letts recently completed an article called, “The Cherokee Tribal Court: Its Origins and its Place in the American Judicial System.” It was a dissertation at the core of an LLM he earned through […]
“Uncertainty is the number one thing that keeps business people and lawyers up at night,” said Matthew Nis Leerberg, an attorney with Fox Rothschild LLP who recently moderated a CLE for the Research Triangle Area Chapter of the Association of […]
For nearly fifty years, traditional structured settlements have been extensively employed in physical injury and workers compensation claims. These specialized annuity plans: offer guaranteed future payments, pay benefits free of federal, state and local income taxes and can be tailored […]
Kelly Garvy was doing research in 2016, for a master’s degree in Environmental Management and Economic Policy Duke. “I was headed towards a career in scientific research studying the environment,” said Garvy. “I was really drawn to economics and policy […]
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