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Help For The Legislative Drafter: Part 2
This column originally appeared in the November 2016 edition of North Carolina Lawyer. In the most recent installment of Writing that Works, I introduced a…
Raise the Age For the N.C. Juvenile Justice System
and Marcus Thompson The N.C. Commission on the Administration of Law and Justice’s Committee on Criminal Investigation and Adjudication is recommending that…
Raise the Age For the N.C. Juvenile Justice System
and Marcus Thompson The N.C. Commission on the Administration of Law and Justice’s Committee on Criminal Investigation and Adjudication is recommending that…
Lawyer-Turned-Teacher: Mock Trial Competition Teaches Students To Think On Their Feet
I have been involved with the North Carolina Bar Association’s Justice Iredell Middle School Mock Trial tournament for six years. The mock trial program is…
A Practice Management Expert’s Top Gift Ideas for Techies
Tech gurus know that nothing pleases a fellow techie like a new gadget for the holidays. Here are my top five picks for the techies you love. Although, you…
A Tale Of Two Legal Tech Conferences: Artificial Intelligence, Practice Management And More
It was the best of conferences, it was the … actually, they were both pretty good. Not exactly Dickens, is it? I recently attended two legal technology…
After Years Of Wrongful Imprisonment, Darryl Howard Was Sustained By Love, Redeemed By Justice
Darryl and Nannie Howard banter gently, laughing and smiling a bit like newlyweds, a bit like the long-married couple they are. Their ease and happiness with…
Millennial Lawyers Are Different, Except When They Are Just Like Everyone Else
Most demographic experts define the “millennial” generation as those born in or after 1981. The Young Lawyers Division of the NCBA comprises law students,…
Top 10 Things You Don’t Know About Adobe Acrobat
Even though anyone can create a PDF file now with Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat remains one of the most popular programs in the office today. While many…
Nominate Deserving Attorneys For the Criminal Justice Section’s Gilchrist and Smith Awards
NCBA Criminal Justice Section Members: The NCBA Criminal Justice Section is continuing the tradition of presentations of the Peter S. Gilchrist III and Wade…