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Participation in legal advertising services is permitted, as long as the service makes the appropriate disclosures “fully, accurately, and prominently."
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Guidance for lawyers who are employed by a public interest law organization that provides legal and non-legal services to its clientele, and has a non-lawyer executive director.
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There is no per se ethical rule against a prosecutor agreeing to support a defendant’s motion for appropriate relief in exchange for a defendant executing a release of claims.
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“The prudent practice is for all counsel involved in a matter to establish at the outset a procedure for determining whether it is acceptable to ‘reply to all’ when a represented party is copied on an electronic communication.”
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied qualified immunity to the Governor of South Carolina in a lawsuit filed by the protest group Occupy Columbia.
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In July 2011, House Bill 854, also known as the Woman’s Right to Know Act, was presented to then-Governor Beverly Perdue. The Bill prohibits an abortion unless a physician conveys state-specified information to the patient. The former Governor vetoed the bill, remarking that it was a “dangerous intrusion into the confidential relationship that exists between women and their doctors” and that “physicians must be free to advise and treat their patients based on their medical
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Allow me to preface: I do not pity Alex Rodriguez (“A-Rod”), and I am not the only one that does not feel sympathy for him. In fact, I would assume that the vast majority of sports fans feel no sympathy for the man, but why? Is it because he is the youngest Major League Baseball (“MLB”) player to hit 500 home runs? Or is it because he is the youngest to reach 600 home runs, surpassing the great Babe Ruth? Maybe it is because in December 2007, the New York Yankees rewarded him
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What do eggs being thrown on houses, drag racing in Miami, DUIs, and being yelled at by Keyshawn Johnson all have in common? Justin Bieber. It is “the Biebs’s” latest run in with the law, however, that has the Internet buzzing and people petitioning for him to be deported back to Canada. The petition, which was created on January 23, 2014, has over 250,000 signatures as of February 15, 2014. It claims that Bieber is threatening the safety of the American people and is a terrible
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The Louisville Cardinals men’s basketball team’s 2013 national championship run had all of the drama of a Hollywood movie. After a brutal, freak injury to guard Kevin Ware in the Cardinals’ Elite Eight win over the Duke Blue Devils, the team rallied together for two come-from-behind wins to beat Wichita State and Michigan. As they lowered the hoop to give Ware a piece of the national championship net, the Cardinals basked in their One Shining Moment. To any lover of March
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Updated February 20, 2014: FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced yesterday that he does not plan to seek further judicial review of the D.C. Circuit’s striking down a majority of the provisions of the FCC’s Open Internet rules. Wheeler stated that he intends to accept the D.C. Circuit’s invitation to act by “proposing rules that will meet the court’s test for preventing improper blocking of and discrimination among Internet traffic, ensuring genuine transparency in
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RALEIGH, N.C. – Campbell Law Assistant Professor of Law Lisa Lukasik presented at the 47th annual School Attorneys’ Conference on Friday, Feb. 7 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Government. Lukasik led the conference program on special education litigation and introduced participants to her research on data derived from a review of administrative decisions in this area. “At this year’s conference, I was particularly proud to see so many former
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Couples planning a wedding have many choices to make—the dress, the venue, the flowers, the cake—the list goes on and on. If a proposed initiative lands on ballots and is passed in November, Colorado brides and grooms-to-be will need to add selecting a premarital counselor to their to-do list. The initiative, titled the Colorado Marriage Education Act and sponsored by California-based Kids Against Divorce (KAD), would require engaged couples to participate in ten hours of premarital
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In March of 2013, Cary attorney Mark Seifert was arrested and charged with sexual exploitation of a minor. On February 3, 2014, Mr. Seifert entered guilty pleas to nine felony counts of second-degree exploitation of a minor. Judgment was entered subsequently, convicting Mr. Seifert of these offenses. Following the judgment, Mr. Seifert submitted an affidavit surrendering his law license. The presiding Superior Court judge concluded that Seifert’s guilty plea and resulting conviction
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On January 21, 2014, Rosiland T. Grant submitted an affidavit surrendering her law license. In the affidavit, Grant notes a pending investigation into allegations that she misappropriated client funds exceeding $8,000. On January 24, 2014, the Council accepted Grant’s tender of surrendered law license, concluding that Grant did in fact misappropriate entrusted funds in violation of Rule 8.4(c) of the North Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct. View the full disciplinary order below.
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The Campbell Law Observer twice has discussed drones in the past, identifying the privacy concerns of unmanned aircraft and detailing the states’ reactions to drone usage. At the time of those publications, however, the Federal Government and its agencies had not yet provided a set of rules and regulations within which drones would operate in America. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) recently have published reports describing how both
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