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The 50 Most Influential Women event spotlights the important role women leaders play in North Carolina’s legal and business community.

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Other Top Stories

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  • Franchisee contract claims proceed over alleged misuse of marketing fees
  • Wage claims survive dismissal in employment dispute

Attorneys navigate increase in challenging UTV & ATV crashes 

  In recent years, accidents and deaths involving all-terrain vehicles and utility task vehicles have skyrocketed. Personal injury and product liability attorneys are facing unique challenges when litigating these cases as insurance hasn’t caught up to […]

Forfeiture mandatory after money laundering convictions

  • Prior consensual misconduct by officers not enough to put town on notice of sexual assault risk

Verdicts and Settlements

Blown tire causes two rigs to collide

Surgical misidentification leaves 2-year-old injured

‘Reckless’ response: Officer’s run to routine shoplifting call leaves man paralyzed

NC DOT liable after pedestrian struck in Chapel Hill crosswalk

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  • Why North Carolina Lawyers Weekly is proud to endorse Best Places to Work in Law Firms
  • AG Jackson sues to protect federal loan access for healthcare students
  • ‘AI won’t take your job’ and other things CEOs say before the layoffs
  • NC takes statewide approach to domestic violence prevention with new review collective
  • Supreme Court backs jurisdiction in FAA arbitration case
  • Company accused of using per diem structure to avoid overtime obligations
  • SCOTUS: Injured trucker’s negligent-hiring claim not preempted
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NC Legal 250 Awards

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Stay tuned for our NC Legal 250 Awards!

Opinion Digests

  • Tort/Negligence – Negligence or Causation – Wrongful Death and Medical Malpractice
  • Criminal Practice – Erlinger v. United States – ‘Different Occasions’ Issue at Sentencing
  • Criminal Practice – Ineffective Assistance of Counsel – Inmate’s Untreated Medical Condition
  • Criminal Practice – Different Judge Imposing a Longer Sentence – Unconstitutional Judicial Retaliation
  • Contract – Settlement Agreement – Undue Influence
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  • ‘AI won’t take your job’ and other things CEOs say before the layoffs
  • When not to believe (your lyin’ eyes)
  • Conduct a technology audit to improve law firm efficiency
  • When the client brings ChatGPT to the consultation
  • Content Marketing: Where law firms lose referrals and how to prevent it
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Bar Disciplinary Actions

  • Balance of Lee County lawyer’s suspension stayed
  • Rowan County lawyer transferred to disability inactive status
  • Catawba County lawyer reprimanded
  • Mecklenburg County lawyer reprimanded
  • Mecklenburg County lawyer reprimanded
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EVENTS

50 Most Influential Women

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The 50 Most Influential Women event spotlights the important role women leaders play in North Carolina’s legal and bus[...]

NC Excellence in Law

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North Carolina Lawyers Weekly’s Excellence in Law event will honor excellence in all areas of the local legal communit[...]

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Special Features

Medical Malpractice Power List 2025

Employment Law Power List 2025

Commerical and Consumer Law Power List 2025

In the Lead: Best Women-led Law Firms 2025

NCLW Excellence in Law 2026 Gallery

In The Lead: Up and Coming Law Firms 2025

NCLW presents the local law firms that are making waves in the legal profession for 2025.

Real Estate Power List 2025

Power List honorees are selected by looking at a range of criteria, including whether an attorney is considered to be an leader in his or her field, well-versed in relevant case law, statutes and regulations; experienced, with a record of success in cases and/or transactions; a lawyer whom other lawyers respect and make referrals to; and a leader in the community, with a record of bar involvement and leadership.

2025 Managing Partners to Watch

 

Admiralty Power List 2025

Power List honorees are selected by looking at a range of criteria, including whether an attorney is considered to be an leader in his or her field, well-versed in relevant case law, statutes and regulations; experienced, with a record of success in cases and/or transactions; a lawyer whom other lawyers respect and make referrals to; and a leader in the community, with a record of bar involvement and leadership.

News Elsewhere

US appeals court questions Trump’s push to punish major law firms

SC GOP announces plans to file a federal lawsuit to close primaries

Lawsuit seeks to halt Trump’s makeover of Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool

Short seller Andrew Left to stand trial in LA over manipulation charges

Elon Musk’s X loses Australia child protection compliance lawsuit

    An Australian court upheld a regulator’s fine against Elon Musk’s social media company X Corp after it admitted violating the law by failing to supply information about its […]

Non-citizens face more scrutiny on bank activities after Trump order

    Non-citizens in the U.S. will face greater scrutiny on their banking activities following an executive order by President Donald Trump on May 19, but the directive was less […]

US Supreme Court rebuffs pharma challenge to Biden-era drug price

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on May 18 to hear a pharmaceutical industry challenge to a plan to curb Medicare drug prices adopted during Democratic former President Joe Biden’s administration that drugmakers argued illegally […]

Trump dismisses lawsuit against IRS, court filing shows

U.S. President Donald Trump voluntarily dismissed his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, according to a May 18 court filing. Terms of the dismissal were not immediately available, […]

DEA, police raided Bucks home at gunpoint. Wrong address, lawsuit says

  A Lower Makefield, Pennsylvania, family says they were left traumatized two years ago after local and federal law enforcement executed a warrant operation at the wrong home. Robert McLaughlin alleges he […]

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