Today, October 1, 2024, the North Carolina Supreme Court approved the North Carolina State Bar’s temporary rule amendment allowing lawyers not licensed in North Carolina to immediately begin providing pro bono legal services to indigent victims of Hurricane/Tropical Storm Helene. Statewide Disaster Re...
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Speculation is brewing in North Carolina that a Democratic state legislator may change her party affiliation. Republicans have scheduled a Wednesday news conference with Democrat Rep. Tricia Cotham of Mecklenburg County.
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The South Carolina Bar addressed this issue in S.C. Ethics Advisory Op. 23-01 (2023). The South Carolina opinion considers whether a lawyer who prepares estate planning documents for clients may include in his retainer agreement a provision providing that the lawyer is to be paid his hourly ...
Wake County Bar Association President’s Award – Greg HinshawBurns, Day & Presnell, P.A. lawyers have also been featured in several legal and local publications:The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White), Communications Law – Dan Higgins Rising Star in Litigation, North Carolina and Georgia...
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An additional 3,100 attorneys located outside the state are licensed to practice law in North Carolina. All of these licensed lawyers in North Carolina are required to belong to the North Carolina State Bar, which serves North Carolina’s legal community both as a bar association supporting the...
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The lawsuit comes just as Republican Gov. Nathan Deal announced hisplan to veto a similar law in Georgia. That state had received heavy backlash from businesses large and small for its protection of discrimination. The law in North Carolina has for some reasonnot received the same a...