Criminal Justice Section
A Call to All Lawyers – Please Volunteer to Help Our Western NC Neighbors!
Friends and Colleagues, Our mountain neighbors need our help to recover from the devastation caused by Helene, and there is a way that you, our state’s…
A Look Into My Internship With the U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs Office of General Counsel
After previously interning with the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs in the U.S. House of Representatives and with the Department of Defense, I have actively…
A Look Into My Internship With the Alamance County Public Defender’s Office
This past summer I spent my first summer as a law student interning at Alamance County’s newly opened public defender’s office. The reason I chose this…
A Look into My Internship with the NCDOJ Medicaid Investigations Division
I looked forward to my first summer for my entire 1L year. I frequently heard older students and mentors describe their first summers as the moment when all…
A Look Into My Internship With the Durham County Attorney’s Office
This past summer I interned with the Durham County Attorneys who represent the Department of Social Services in the Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency (A/N/D)…
In Memoriam: Attorney Donald “Don” Kenneth Tisdale Sr.
Retired Attorney Don Tisdale of Winston-Salem passed away peacefully at his home on April 30, 2024, with his devoted wife, Vicki, and son Ken, also an…
O.J. is Dead, But Our Duty to be Zealous Advocates Endures
The recent death of O.J. Simpson brought out reflections by many on the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, and the enrapturing period…
Calling Criminal Defense Attorneys: New Date for Informational Lunch with Chief District Judge Catherine C. Eagles
The CJA Panel Committee for the Middle District of North Carolina and Chief District Judge Catherine C. Eagles cordially invite attorneys interested in…
Informational Lunch with Chief District Judge Catherine C. Eagles has been Postponed
The Criminal Justice Act Panel (CJA) Informational Lunch scheduled for March 28, 2024, at 12:30 p.m., at the John Hervey Wheeler Federal Courthouse in Durham,…
Informational Lunch with Chief District Judge Catherine C. Eagles
If you think you might one day like to expand your practice to federal criminal matters by taking appointed cases for indigent defendants, you are invited to…