Campbell Law School students excel in North Carolina and across the world: Buncombe County District Attorney’s Office
By: Meredith Mercer, 3L at Campbell University School of Law ...[Continue Reading]
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A policy for inclusion or compelled speech?
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. ...[Continue Reading]
Campbell Law School students excel in North Carolina and across the nation: the 5th Judicial District Court
By: Jared Simmons, 2L at Campbell University School of Law ...[Continue Reading]
The Cake is Not a Lie
Religious freedom is not an excuse for discrimination, says the Colorado Court of Appeals. ...[Continue Reading]
Sound the death knell of discrimination—the Equality Act will protect you
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. ...[Continue Reading]
Killing a human for a fictional character: the details and impact of the Slender Man case
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.” ...[Continue Reading]
2015 Formal Ethics Opinion 6: Lawyer’s Professional Responsibility When Third Party Steals Funds from Trust Account
View the Formal Ethics Opinion in Full Here. At its October 23, 2015 meeting, the North Carolina State Bar adopted Proposed FEO 6 which addressed several inquiries regarding the professional responsibility of a lawyer when funds are stolen from a lawyer’s trust account by a third party not ...[Continue Reading]
2015 Formal Ethics Opinion 4: Disclosing Potential Malpractice to a Client
View the Proposed Ethics Opinion in Full Here. The North Carolina State Bar voted to formalize Proposed 2015 Formal Ethics Opinion 4 at its meeting on July 17, 2015. Formal Ethics Opinion 2015 FEO 4 rules that due to the seriousness of professional malpractice potential on a client’s case and ...[Continue Reading]
2015 Formal Ethics Opinion 5: Authority to Discuss Former Client’s Appellate Case with Successor Lawyer
View the Formal Ethics Opinion in Full Here. Generally, lawyers representing a client during the pre-conviction stages of a case have a vastly different relationship with the client—more personal contact and more irrelevant confidential information exposed—than lawyers representing a client ...[Continue Reading]
2014 Formal Ethics Opinion 9: Use of Tester in an Investigation that Serves a Public Interest
View the Formal Ethics Opinion in Full Here. The Ethics Committee voted to adopt and retitle 2014 Formal Ethics Opinion 9 at its meeting on July 16, 2015. The inquiry that led to the opinion concerned a situation where a lawyer wanted to retain a private investigator to look into his client’s ...[Continue Reading]
2014 Formal Ethics Opinion 5: Advising a Civil Litigation Client about Social Media
View the Formal Ethics Opinion in Full Here The North Carolina State Bar Council decided to withdraw 2014 Formal Ethics Opinion 5 Advising a Client About Social Media that was adopted July 25, 2014. Instead, at its July 17, 2015 meeting, the State Bar released a substitute opinion for 2014 FEO 5. ...[Continue Reading]
Lawsuit over teen used as rape-bait can proceed
A federal appeals court allows a lawsuit against an Alabama school board to continue in regards to a 14-year-old female student who was used by a school employee in a plot to catch another student deemed to be an alleged sexual predator. ...[Continue Reading]
Proposed Overtime Regulation Changes May Positively Affect Many Americans: Will a Hard Day’s Work Actually Mean a Fair Day’s Pay?
Though there has been no change to the “duties test,” Department of Labor proposed overtime regulation changes may permit nearly five million workers in 2016 to have access to overtime protections. ...[Continue Reading]
Fifth Circuit rules strict Texas voter ID laws violate Voting Rights Act
A federal appeals court found that exceedingly strict voter ID laws in Texas violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 due to the laws’ disparate impact on minorities. ...[Continue Reading]
Think before you serve a drink—dram shop laws in North Carolina
Bars, restaurants, and social hosts can be held liable under dram shop laws for serving alcohol to intoxicated guests or customers that later cause an accident due to being intoxicated. ...[Continue Reading]
