News & Observer: NC lawyer steps away from profession, troubled by the legal field

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NC lawyer steps away from profession, troubled by the legal field

BY ANNE BLYTHE

ablythe@newsobserver.com

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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 ...

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Daily Tar Heel: Adjunct law professor charged for violating privacy

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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’ ........

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