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42538
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Lechner underscores the impact and importance of the Civil Justice Act. Asserting its importance was its purpose: helping to provide legal services for the most vulnerable members the state’s population through funding the Legal Aid of North Carolina, Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy, and Pisgah Legal Services. Asserting its importance was noting how people who are elderly, impoverished, domestic violence victims, or disabled and veterans who are homeless could be impacted, should funding be cut.
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36224
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Terms such as False-Self syndrome, Zealous Advocacy, Always the Helper, and Ignoring Boundaries were applied to lawyers. Being especially vulnerable to depression and suicide, attorneys were cautioned to maintain boundaries between one’s professional and personal life, being true to oneself, and not overextending oneself physically and emotionally.
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35046
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The classification of legal and illegal rates; rules concerning the representation of parties; what constitutes conflict of interest; the proper delegation of duties. Examples of recent cases tried in court due to violations such as fraud are also included.
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43600
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"All three were confirmed unanimously by the US Senate on November 19, 2021, and were officially sworn in shortly thereafter. They were among the first of the new class of US attorneys to be confirmed in the country. Interviewed are Michael Easley, Jr., Sandra Hairston and Dena King.
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42546
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Judge Tyson’s reflection on North Carolina’s judicial selection, started from the late Colonial period through today, places a greater focus on its history since 1850 and the greatest focus since the 1990s. His reflection includes, to a lesser extent, the judicial selection process as has evolved in North Carolina’s sister states, Virginia and South Carolina.
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Judicial selection--history--North Carolina ; Judicial selection--history--North Carolina--general elections; Judicial selection--history--North Carolina--incumbent judges; Judicial selection--history--North Carolina--Republican party; Judicial selection--history--North Carolina--state Constitution; Judicial selection--history--North Carolina--governors
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42559
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In the case of trials by jury, Wilson notes the decreasing number of trials with juries in recent years. From this admission leads to him acknowledging how lawyers’ inadequate court trial experience also impacts the quality of court trials. It is the lack thereof, that, according to the author, lawyers are obligated to acknowledge to their clients, per State Bar Rules of Professional Conduct.
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42554
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With the history of the Adult Children of Alcoholics movement as an introductory backdrop, the author explains the role of early childhood trauma in dysfunctional behaviors occurring in adulthood. Particular aspects of this form of childhood trauma she focused on includes early attachment and self-regulation, link between ACOA/Co-dependent and childhood trauma, and family dynamics that can lead to emotional deregulation. Balancing her analysis of the seemingly unconquerable forces is an acknowledgement that, with proper support networks, recovery for alcoholics and their adult children is possible.
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22605
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In 2010, Orange County, North Carolina lawyer Jay Bryan launched a voluntary mentoring program to pair recent law school graduates with more senior lawyers in order to develop skills, professionalism, and ethics for the recent grads, while allowing experienced lawyers to give back to the community.
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42583
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The authors’ advice for providing a quality mentoring program for fledgling lawyers highlighted pertinent training and ethical considerations by the profiled mentoring program’s founder and his Steering Committee. Additional encouragement for would-be mentors were the goals and outcomes of the profiled mentoring program envisioned by Orange County attorney and whose co-founding members included Muse and Poole.
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24056
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A recent publication from the UNC School of Government entitled, Raising Issues of Race in North Carolina Criminal Cases, is a manual designed to help defense attorneys, judges, and prosecutors identify meritorious claims of racial bias. The manual includes information, techniques, and resources for distinguishing such claims.
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42585
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A reference manual created by UNC-CH’s School of Government is continuing to provide assistance to North Carolina’s law enforcement through its recently published text, Raising Issues of Race in North Carolina Criminal Cases. Included in Morgan’s discussion of the text included terms such as implicit bias, pretrial release, selective enforcement, and addressing race at trial. While created with North Carolina’s defense lawyers in mind, the author asserted the value of this resource for all representatives of the criminal justice system.
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35403
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The authors asserted that the revised Rules of Professional Conduct will impact the State Bar’s disciplinary process in a number of ways. Revised Rule 1.18 is the most marked revision in the text designed to create guidelines for acceptable conduct and crystalize the lawyers’ professional obligations. What the authors concluded is what’s most noticeable about the revised Rules: the Bar’s interpretation of “revised” was open for debate.
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22609
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Under recent scrutiny from an article on Infilaw, a company that owns and operates three law schools in the United States including the largest law school in North Carolina--Charlotte School of Law, findings show that compared to other laws schools in the state, Charlotte School of Law is unusual in that it has the largest attrition rate and the student body incurs the most student loan debt.
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The North Carolina Bar Association requested North Carolina attorneys to complete the Judicial Performance Evaluation (JPE) in preparation for the 2014 election. Attorneys who had some level of professional contact with the candidate evaluated all contenders for the trial bench. The results of the JPE survey were accessible to North Carolina voters through the website ElectNCJudges.org.
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35058
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Internet based advertising—was the savage beast not easily tamed for lawyers such as the author. Noted challenges that made online promotion of services a creature discomfort were advertising strategies cited as violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct, words taken out of context, and lawyers almost being barred from using a chat service in their web-based ads.
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