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Dan Merrell of Dare County, North Carolina, was suspended from the practice of law on January 11, 2016, effective thirty days from that date. While working as the attorney for the Town of Kill Devil Hills, he was involved in a scandal surrounding a local judge and police department. Once he was
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Sir Ashley James Harrison was suspended from the practice of law on December 8, 2015. Several clients filed complaints against Harrison. The disciplinary committee found that Harrison failed to notify clients of court appearances, failed to refund money when he offered no legal services, and
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Karla Simon was temporarily suspended from the practice of law, pending further investigation, on November 30, 2015. Simon pled guilty in Massachusetts in November 2014 of felony stalking. She was also found guilty of 29 counts of violating a harassment prevention order and 9 counts of
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Victor H. Morgan, Jr. was disbarred from the practice of law on November 18, 2015. Prior to disbarment, Morgan’s license was suspended for three years effective June 15, 2013. Morgan represented numerous clients before his suspension. During his suspension, Morgan failed to return files to
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Jimmy A. Pettus was disbarred on November 11, 2015. The State Bar found that between November 2010 and December 2011, Pettus, as managing partner, misappropriated entrusted funds for his own benefit or for the benefit of Vick & Associates. By misappropriating entrusted funds, Pettus committed
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H. Russell Vick and Jimmy A. Pettus, partners in Vick & Associates, were disciplined for not timely depositing their employee’s IRA withholdings into the participating employees’ simple IRA accounts. Rather, they commingled the withholdings with other funds used for the benefits of Vick
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Robert Tucker was suspended from the practice of law on November 3, 2015. During the course of his law practice, Tucker mishandled several trust accounts by failing to properly keep records and disbursing more funds than were deposited. Tucker also failed to record deeds of trust for several
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The complaint filed against Gretchen M. Engel alleging that she had engaged in intentional misconduct, willfulness, or bad faith, was dismissed on November 2, 2015. Engel was employed as the Director of Post-Conviction Litigation for the Center for Death Penalty Litigation (CDPL) in Durham.
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A 2011 controversy in the Village of Pinehurst, which did not concern golf, has created far-reaching collateral effects.
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Singer and songwriter, Kesha, will be heard this month in a motion made to permit her to perform music and begin producing songs in the midst of a nasty lawsuit between her and her former producer, Dr. Luke.
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President Barack Obama’s new proposal to expand salary reporting requirements is an effort to equalize gender pay requirements in the workforce.
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The Flint water crisis has devastated the world after investigations have shown a toxic amount of lead and other pathogens in the water supply of Flint, Michigan.
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A new, popular, lawyer rating and legal services website may cause ethical issues with attorneys in North Carolina and issues similar to that of the North Carolina State Bar’s problem with LegalZoom.
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When employers terminate at-will employees for any reason or no reason, their conduct is often permissive, unless the termination is in violation of public policy, among other exceptions. However, could there be a claim for a wrongful termination action against an employer when an employee fails to submit to a drug test that is to be conducted by an unapproved laboratory?
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