NC Lawyers Weekly: Justices concerned over bar’s power to discipline judges

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Justices concerned over bar’s power to discipline judges

By: David Donovan August 31, 2016

The North Carolina State Bar argued that it has the authority to discipline judges for judicial misconduct to the justices of the state’s Supreme Court on Aug. 30. But members of the court pressed the attorneys in the case on how any rules they lay down in the case of Dare County Superior Court Judge ...

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NC Supreme Court: Nc State Bar v. Tillett (208PA15), Oral Argument 2016-08-30

All documents in the case: https://www.ncappellatecourts.org/search-results.php?sDocketSearch=208PA15&exact=1

Daily Advance: Top court to hear Tillett, Bar dispute

http://www.dailyadvance.com/News/2016/08/29/Top-court-to-hear-Tillett-Bar-dispute.html

Top court to hear Tillett, Bar dispute

By William F. West
Staff Writer

Monday, August 29, 2016

North Carolina’s highest court is scheduled to hear arguments this week on whether Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Jerry Tillett can be disciplined by two different state regulatory agencies for the same conduct.

The justices of the N.C. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments...

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News & Observer: Report criticized SBI crime lab’s lack of documentation

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Report criticized SBI crime lab’s lack of documentation

BY CRAIG JARVIS

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After an avalanche of bad publicity about the State Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab six years ago, Attorney General Roy Cooper announced changes on more than two dozen occasions about how the lab would operate.

But one assessment of the lab stayed private: a report produced by an independent accreditation agency in December 2010. Among other things,

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Charlotte Observer: GOP ad slams Cooper over crime lab

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GOP ad slams Cooper over crime lab

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The Republican Governors Association is out with a new anti-Roy Cooper ad, this one blaming the Democratic attorney general for widespread problems in the State Crime Lab several years ago. Cooper is running against GOP Gov. Pat McCrory.

At the time, the crime lab was part of the State Bureau of Investigation under the state Department of Justice. In 2013, the Republican-led legislature separated the SBI from the crime lab, and the following year moved .....

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News & Observer: GOP ad slams Cooper over crime lab

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GOP ad slams Cooper over crime lab

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The Republican Governors Association is out with a new anti-Roy Cooper ad, this one blaming the Democratic attorney general for widespread problems in the State Crime Lab several years ago. Cooper is running against GOP Gov. Pat McCrory.

At the time, the crime lab was part of the State Bureau of Investigation under the state Department of Justice. In 2013, the Republican-led ......

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The National Law Review: DOJ and FTC Encourages Competition Between Lawyers and Non-Lawyers in the Provision of Legal Services in Comments on North Carolina “LegalZoom” Bill

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DOJ and FTC Encourages Competition Between Lawyers and Non-Lawyers in the Provision of Legal Services in Comments on North Carolina “LegalZoom” Bill

ARTICLE BYKarl E. Herrmann McDermott Will & Emery Antitrust Alert

Thursday, July 7, 2016

On June 10, 2016, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) jointly submitted a letter recommending that the North Carolina General Assembly limit the definition of the “practice of law” only to activities for which “specialized legal knowledge and training” is demonstrably necessary to protect consumers.  The regulators argue .....

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