Regulation
Examining the Right to Earn a Living Act, part 8
Having established the what and the why of structural reform of occupational licensing, the Right to Earn a Living Act next turns its attention to how.
LegalZoom
Education
New Carolina Journal Online features
Barry Smith reports for Carolina Journal Online on legislation designed to settle a long-running dispute between the N.C. State Bar and LegalZoom. John Hood’s Daily Journal highlights the economic benefits…
Education
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
As the holiday season winds down, the 2016 election campaign season will heat up. Becki Gray explains in the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio how the John Locke Foundation…
Law & Public Safety
A Victory for Economic Liberty
View in your browser. In October the NC State Bar and LegalZoom, Inc. announced a settlement in their long-running dispute over the latter’s online, self-help, legal document service. As Ben…
Liberty
Legal Zoom Defeats the NC State Bar
Back in March I wrote about an long-running dispute between the North Carolina State Bar and online legal document service provider LegalZoom. Last month the parties announced a settlement, and,…
Law & Public Safety
Leef’s latest Forbes column focuses on LegalZoom and N.C.
George Leef shares with Forbes readers details of a dispute involving a Web-based provider of legal services and the N.C. State Bar. In LegalZoom v. North Carolina State Bar Association,…
Law & Public Safety
A Great Win for Free Speech (and Property Rights)
View in your browser. On Tuesday the Institute for Justice announced that: The U.S. Supreme Court today vacated a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judgment that had allowed the…
Liberty
LegalZoom Takes the Offensive In North Carolina
I’ve written before about the State Bar’s attempts at preventing LegalZoom from offering its online self-help legal services in North Carolina. Now, LegalZoom has turned the tables by filing a complaint against the Bar asking…
Law & Public Safety
Who Ya Gonna Call?
View in your browser. During the progressive era, federal antitrust enforcement agencies were known as "trustbusters." They were usually depicted as righteous warriors courageously fighting to rescue helpless ordinary citizens…
Law & Public Safety
The legal profession is just not that into competition
George Leef explains for Forbes readers why a U.S. Supreme Court case involving North Carolina dentists and teeth whiteners is attracting attention from other fields. Competition – everyone loves it,…
Liberty
Thanksgiving week impact
A holiday-shortened work week did not stand in the way of John Locke Foundation experts earning air time and quotations in print and online news outlets. When the congressional “supercommittee”…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online features
Karen McMahan reports for Carolina Journal Online about a lawsuit pitting LegalZoom against the North Carolina State Bar. John Hood’s Daily Journal explains why giving Gov. Beverly Perdue more power…