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Sunday Best: Catch Up On the Week’s Top NCBarBlog Posts

Here’s what NCBarBlog readers found most interesting on our pages this week: ICO Primer: A Revolution in Startup Financing or a Regulatory Nightmare? Jack of All Trades: Embrace It  On Fonts: Why Lawyers Should Switch To Century Schoolbook Employer’s Attempt At Repayment Of Training Costs Can Backfire Causing Employee Misclassification Under the FLSA NC Free […]

Jack of All Trades: Embrace It

By Aimee Scotton It’s an oft-repeated refrain when referring to government work — Jack of all trades; Master of none.  Sadly, it’s a cliché because it’s true.  I’ve been the in-house county attorney for Randolph County for 21 years now.  Twenty-one years.  You’d think that after 21 years, I’d have this county attorney thing down pat, […]

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ICO Primer: A Revolution in Startup Financing or a Regulatory Nightmare?

By Sammy Naji A. What Are ICOs? With the recent emergence of Initial Coin Offerings (“ICOs”), financing for startups has never been more accessible. The term ICO refers to the process of raising capital through the issuance of digital coins, known as tokens, on a blockchain ledger. These tokens, unlike cryptocurrency coins, not only serve […]

Sunday Best: Catch Up On the Week’s Top NCBarBlog Posts

Here’s what NCBarBlog readers found most interesting on our pages this week: NC Free Legal Answers: Pro Bono At Your Fingertips NC’s New Expunction Law Offers Juvenile Offenders a Fresh Start Phyllis Pickett: A Woman for All Seasons NC Court of Appeals Issues Decisions Analyzing Disability Post-Wilkes Paralegal Potpourri Friday: PD Annual Meeting, CPE, Awards, […]

NC Court of Appeals Issues Decisions Analyzing Disability Post-Wilkes

By Elizabeth Ligon  The Court of Appeals recently released two decisions that analyzed issues relating to disability – specifically, the burden of proving futility – post-Wilkes v. City of Greenville. In Adame v. Aerotek, an unpublished decision, Plaintiff sustained a low back injury in June 2013. After receiving conservative treatment with multiple doctors, Plaintiff was […]

Phyllis Pickett: A Woman for All Seasons

By Bain Jones Having grown up in the Burgaw area of North Carolina, Phyllis Pickett saw a very diverse profile of North Carolina in the early years of her life. She recognized the strengths and weaknesses of a community of farmers, small town businesses, military individuals from nearby installations and the struggles of a small […]

NC’s New Expunction Law Offers Juvenile Offenders a Fresh Start

By Tarrah Callahan and Daniel Bowes When prosecutors, defense attorneys, people with criminal records and advocates from the right and left agree on a criminal justice policy reform, one can have a fairly strong degree of confidence in the measure. Last year, Session Law 2017-195: Expungement Process Modifications enjoyed such widespread and bipartisan support as […]