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Pro Bono Spotlight: Heather Culp

Pro Bono Project: NC Free Legal Answers For Attorney Heather Culp of Essex Richards, P.A. in Charlotte, every year brings the same challenge: to complete at…

Top Tips From ABA TECHSHOW 2019 ’60 Tips In 60 Minutes’

Each year the ABA TECHSHOW concludes the conference with a plenary session featuring a lightning fast, multi-speaker tips program. Some of the tips can be…

USPTO China Road Show Coming To Durham

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s China Intellectual Property (IP) Road Show Find details and a registration link here. 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., Thursday,…

Dispute Resolution Commission Quarterly Meeting

The North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission (NCDRC) held its quarterly meeting on March 1, 2019, at the Washington Duke Inn in Durham.  The meeting, led…

MacCord’s List: IP News & Notices From Art MacCord

Art MacCord is a patent attorney with 40 years of experience. He keeps an eye on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office for new…

NC Pro Bono Honor Society Wants To Recognize Your Work

Our Supreme Court notes “Equal Justice Under Law” on its building. Yet, access to this justice only truly exists when it is available to all members of…

Spotlight On Frank Laney

DR Spotlight is a Q&A series that focuses on Dispute Resolution Section members. Frank Laney is Circuit Mediator for the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of…

Members In Focus: Lt. Col. Robert Rideout Relishes Roles In the Army and the Law

  Robert Rideout doesn’t recall what he was listening to in the bunker during this particular rocket attack in Kandahar, in the photo above. To his right,…

Basic Security Best Practices for Law Firms

“Reasonable efforts” to ensure confidentiality of client information is fact-specific. In North Carolina RPC 1.6 Comment 19 suggests that a lawyer should…

Insurance Law Section Annual Meeting and CLE Wrap-Up

In case you missed it, the Insurance Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association held its annual meeting and CLE at the Bar Center in Cary on January…