bar association that represents or seeks to represent the attorneys practicing law in a particular U.S. state
Kari Travis has the details here. RALEIGH — The University of North Carolina School of Law’s Center for Civil Rights has been unlawfully litigating for 15 years, the N.C. State…
Don Carrington reports for Carolina Journal Online on the State Bar’s fight against a complaint targeting N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper. John Hood’s Daily Journal explains why North Carolina has…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
House Majority Leader Paul Stam, R-Wake, put into words the essence of this session’s legislative effort to open up the election process to more voices by reducing the barriers for…
The technical snafu surrounding Chatham County Attorney Kevin Whiteheart’a law license has been cleared up and the the State Bar has reinstated him. You’ll find the details about mailing to…
The Raleigh News & Observer is reporting that the State Bar has suspended new Chatham County Attorney Kevin Whiteheart, at least for now, over failure to report on time his…
Cooney says he wants to start at the end. Shows a photo of Crystal Gail Mangum taken 20 to 30 minutes after she claims to have been raped and beaten.…
I didn’t get around to posting on the completion of Mike Nifong’s DA tenure today. I frankly wasn’t that interested in what last night was obviously inevitable. But in the…