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The Senior Resident Superior Court Judge of the 30B Judicial District transferred Brad Harrison Ferguson to disability inactive status and thereby preventing him from practicing law in North Carolina until reinstated by the Court. Ferguson was transferred under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 84-28(g) &
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Thomas S. Hicks was suspended for five years with the possibility of stay after eighteen months of the suspension. Hicks, a Wilmington lawyer, was found in violation of the North Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct. Hicks failed to get signed written informed consent from clients he
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Devin F. Thomas maintained law offices in Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and Raleigh. Between 2014 and 2015, Thomas failed to perform any substantive work on behalf of a paying client, violating Rule 1.3 (due diligence). Thomas also, during that period, failed to properly communicate with his
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Christine Mumma was the Executive Director and legal counsel for the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence (NCCAI) in Durham County. In 2004, NCCAI looked into the Davis crime case on behalf of Joseph Sledge, who was convicted for the murders of Josephine and Aileen Davis in 1978. When
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On March 7, 2016, Robert E. Griffin was disbarred by the North Carolina State Bar. Griffin was a practicing lawyer in Fuquay-Varina when he was suspended by the Bar on August 22, 2014 for three years. He was originally suspended for failing to communicate with clients, failing to act with due
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After the release of over 11 million confidential documents, several world leaders and well-known organizations are having their financial practices closely scrutinized.
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The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s progress in developing nuclear weapons has been slow but steadily progressive. Since the mid-20th Century, North Korea has inched closer and closer to targeting the United States.
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The possibility of a reclassification of marijuana from Schedule I to another schedule has many concerned about what this change could mean for medical marijuana industries and businesses who currently sell regulated, legal marijuana.
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Even with the Equal Pay Act, women and minorities are still being paid substantially less than their male counterparts in the workplace.
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It looks like the Republican National Convention is going to be contested—what does this mean for the presidential nomination and how are some states responding with their delegates?
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The North Carolina Supreme Court is gearing up to rule how the term “elected” is defined within the state constitution, which will have implications on their own elections as justices
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The United States Women’s National Soccer team filed an EEOC claim for receiving unequal pay for their incredible performances when compared to pay received by the Men’s National Soccer team.
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With an Apex woman being the first to be charged under North Carolina’s new revenge porn law, what are the implications for future prosecutions under the law?
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Five states in the United States have legalized recreational marijuana, twenty-three states have legalized medical marijuana, but employers in these states can still require drug tests and fire an employee over a failed drug test, even though the conduct is no longer criminalized.
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Sexual assaults in and around our nation’s universities are occurring at an alarming rate, and it is often being swept under the rug.
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