http://www.southernstudies.org/2016/01/voices-i-quit-the-nc-state-bar-for-serving-power-i.html#comment-13317
In January 2014, Lewis Pitts retired from Legal Aid of North Carolina and the practice of law after 40 years as a public-interest attorney. Pitts helped start the Christic Institute, where he was involved in high-profile civil rights cases .......
http://www.southernstudies.org/2016/01/voices-i-quit-the-nc-state-bar-for-serving-power-i.html#comment-13317
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
NC Lawyers Weekly: Attorney sues NC State Bar over inaction
http://nclawyersweekly.com/2016/01/20/attorney-sues-nc-state-bar-over-inaction/
Attorney sues NC State Bar over inaction
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http://nclawyersweekly.com/2016/01/20/attorney-sues-nc-state-bar-over-inaction/
Attorney sues NC State Bar over inaction 
Alleges bar ignored complaint about AG, has conflict of interest
Raleigh lawyer Gene Boyce is suing the North Carolina State Bar for failing to refer his ethical complaint against state Attorney General Roy Cooper to an independent investigator. Boyce said in a recent interview that the state bar created a precedent that paved the way for his suit when it asked the State Bar of Georgia ...
Read more: http://nclawyersweekly.com/2016/01/20/attorney-sues-nc-state-bar-over-inaction/#ixzz4A4ya0Wue
http://nclawyersweekly.com/2016/01/20/attorney-sues-nc-state-bar-over-inaction/
Monday, January 18, 2016
News & Observer: NC lawyer steps away from profession, troubled by the legal field
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article55333800.html
NC lawyer steps away from profession, troubled by the legal field
GREENSBORO
North Carolina recently launched a top-to-bottom review of the judicial system, a comprehensive look that will come from the assembly of judges, lawyers, government officials, business leaders and others called on by the state’s chief justice.
At about the time that review was beginning, Lewis Pitts, a lawyer who has accumulated many awards and recognitions for his work on children’s rights and ...
Daily Tar Heel: Adjunct law professor charged for violating privacy
http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2016/01/adjunct-law-professor-charged-for-violating-privacy
Adjunct law professor charged for violating privacy
SIERRA DUNNE | PUBLISHED 01/18/16 11:32PM
For more than a decade, Christine Mumma has fought for the wrongfully imprisoned. But this past week she fought a different battle.
Mumma, executive director of the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence and a professor in the UNC School of Law, faced charges from the North Carolina State Bar for acting dishonestly during an investigation to exonerate Joseph Sledge, who was convicted for two counts of second degree murder in 1978.
In October 2013, Mumma went to Marie Andrus’ ........
Read more: http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2016/01/adjunct-law-professor-charged-for-violating-privacy
Quoted from The Daily Tar Heel
http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2016/01/adjunct-law-professor-charged-for-violating-privacy
Adjunct law professor charged for violating privacy
SIERRA DUNNE | PUBLISHED 01/18/16 11:32PM
For more than a decade, Christine Mumma has fought for the wrongfully imprisoned. But this past week she fought a different battle.
Mumma, executive director of the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence and a professor in the UNC School of Law, faced charges from the North Carolina State Bar for acting dishonestly during an investigation to exonerate Joseph Sledge, who was convicted for two counts of second degree murder in 1978.
In October 2013, Mumma went to Marie Andrus’ ........
Read more: http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2016/01/adjunct-law-professor-charged-for-violating-privacy
Quoted from The Daily Tar Heel
http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2016/01/adjunct-law-professor-charged-for-violating-privacy
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
WRAL: Focused on freeing inmate, innocence advocate says she made mistake
http://www.wral.com/innocence-advocate-presents-defense-against-misconduct-allegations/15228876/
Read more at http://www.wral.com/innocence-advocate-presents-defense-against-misconduct-allegations/15228876/#8ZqQJ5e6uTBljR2w.99 ......
http://www.wral.com/innocence-advocate-presents-defense-against-misconduct-allegations/15228876/
Focused on freeing inmate, innocence advocate says she made mistake
Posted January 12
RALEIGH, N.C. — A prominent advocate for inmates wrongly convicted of crimes testified in her own defense Tuesday in a North Carolina State Bar disciplinary hearing.
A three-person disciplinary panel is trying to determine if Christine Mumma, director of the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence, violated the
Read more at http://www.wral.com/innocence-advocate-presents-defense-against-misconduct-allegations/15228876/#8ZqQJ5e6uTBljR2w.99 ......
http://www.wral.com/innocence-advocate-presents-defense-against-misconduct-allegations/15228876/
Monday, January 11, 2016
News & Observer: NC lawyer who fights for the wrongfully convicted goes before disciplinary panel
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article54115055.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article54115055.html
JANUARY 11, 2016 2:18 PM
NC lawyer who fights for the wrongfully convicted goes before disciplinary panel
RALEIGH
A three-member N.C. State Bar panel rejected a request from prosecutors Monday to find Christine Mumma, head of the N.C. Center on Actual Innocence, guilty of professional misconduct without a full hearing on the allegations.
Mumma, an advocate for the falsely accused, was investigating claims of innocence by a wrongfully convicted man when she took the actions that resulted in the disciplinary hearing ....
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article54115055.html
Outer Banks Voice: Another view: Bar is judge, jury, executioner against Tillett
http://outerbanksvoice.com/2016/01/11/another-view-bar-is-judge-jury-executioner-against-tillett/
This is the third part of a three-part article. The first two examine the story involving Superior Court Judge Jerry Tillett’s son and the events afterward and introduces the people responsible for publicizing it and their likely reasons.
http://outerbanksvoice.com/2016/01/11/another-view-bar-is-judge-jury-executioner-against-tillett/
Another view: Bar is judge, jury, executioner against Tillett
By Submitted Story on January 11, 2016
Nags Head Attorney Neil W. Scarborough submitted the following article for publication in The Outer Banks Voice. http://www.scarboroughlawfirm.com/
This is the third part of a three-part article. The first two examine the story involving Superior Court Judge Jerry Tillett’s son and the events afterward and introduces the people responsible for publicizing it and their likely reasons.
The third part examines the State Bar’s conduct in more detail and reveals the injustice .....
http://outerbanksvoice.com/2016/01/11/another-view-bar-is-judge-jury-executioner-against-tillett/
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