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On May 9, 2013, Elaine Kelley was suspended from the practice of law for six months by a superior court judge. On March 17, 2014, the Disciplinary Hearing Commission entered an order suspending Kelley for four years. On May 26, 2015, Kelley submitted a petition to stay her suspension, which was
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William Wallace Respess, Jr. was suspended from the practice of law for two years on June 9th, 2015 after the State Bar found several violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct. Respess, while representing a client on her divorce, engaged in a sexual relationship with her in violation of
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On August 5, 2015, the North Carolina State Bar conducted a random procedural audit of John Johnston’s trust accounts. The audit revealed several problems highlighting Johnston’s failure to maintain and document his trust account as specified in Rules of Professional Conduct 1.15-1, 1.15-2,
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Sir-Christopher Anderson was disbarred June 2015. Beginning in 2013, Anderson misappropriated entrusted funds he received for the benefit of multiple clients, provided dishonest responses to the North Carolina Bar during an investigation, failed to properly maintain proper client ledgers, failed
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Peter C. Capece was disbarred in May 2015 after misappropriating client funds for six years. Between 2009 and February 2015, Capece misappropriated at least $1,584,905.51 from funds entrusted to him in his fiduciary capacities. In doing so, Capece violated Rule 1.15-2(j). His conduct also
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View the Proposed Ethics Opinion in Full Here. The NC Bar received inquiries about representing individual spouse on certain matters, when the lawyer has previously represented both spouses jointly in other legal matters. As the opinion mentions, there are many areas of law in which a lawyer can,
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View the Formal Ethics Opinion in Full Here. The North Carolina State Bar received a request for an interpretation of Rule 7.3(a) in regards to prior professional relationships. Generally, Rules 7.3(a) states that lawyers are prohibited from soliciting professional employment from a potential
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California recently reached a settlement agreement in a lawsuit filed by prisoners who had been indefinitely placed in solitary confinement that aims at returning thousands of isolated prisoners to general population.
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Indiana State Police and FBI investigations reveal Former subway representative, Jared Fogle, actively participated in possessing and distributing child pornography along with traveling to different states and countries to engage in sexual acts with minors.
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The University of Tennessee sent a memo to its students and faculty requesting that everyone use inclusive pronouns when referring to students, instead of traditional binary pronouns.
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Religious freedom is not an excuse for discrimination, says the Colorado Court of Appeals.
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Congressional Democrats introduce a new bill, the Equality Act, which seeks to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and provide sweeping protections for sexual and gender minorities across America.
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Two thirteen-year-old girls are being tried as adults after brutally stabbing a twelve-year-old in order to prove their loyalty to the fictional character “Slender Man.”
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