Purrington Award Nominations
The Business Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association seeks nominations for the Alfred L. Purrington III Memorial Public Service Award. This award…
Construction Law Section Nominations
To all Section members: As chair of the Section’s Nominations Committee, I am pleased to invite your nominations for the next class of at-large members of…
Case Updates – ED and Life Insurance
Crago v. Crago – Mecklenburg County During the parties’ marriage, they both liquidated 401(k) accounts and pension plans due to unemployment. Husband…
Upcoming Continuing Legal Education Opportunities
Our section just wrapped up its first CLE of the Bar Year on December 4, 2019. That CLE program provided an overview of the Workers’ Compensation Act,…
“Murder on Birchleaf Drive: Trial Strategy for True Crime Lovers”
When Meredith Fisher discovered her sister Michelle’s brutally beaten and lifeless body on the floor of the master bedroom she shared with her husband…
Register for “Trusts, Taxes and Trials: An In-Depth Look at the U.S. Supreme Court Kaestner Decision” on Jan. 28 in Cary
By Jeff Kelly Earlier this year, the United States Supreme Court issued a major trust tax decision in North Carolina Department of Revenue v. Kaestner Trust,…
Nominations – Dispute Resolution Section
The Dispute Resolution Nominations Committee is seeking nominations for eight new Council Members for three year terms expiring 2023 and one Council Member to…
Appellate Update
I hope y’all appreciate that I read these opinions so you don’t have to. The employment decisions over the past several months have been fairly…
YLD December E-Blast
DATES TO KNOW December 11, 2019 |”Pathway to the Judiciary” Panel | Cary | 6:00 pm January 16, 2019 | Lawyers & The Rule of Law I Greensboro I 5:00 pm…
Sports & Entertainment Law Section Articles of Interest (November 2019)
Members of the Sports & Entertainment Law Section found the following recent third party articles to be of potential interest to the Section: NCAA board…