Articles

Perhaps Mimeographs and IBM Selectrics® Weren't So Bad: Employee Entitlement to Use Employer Email Systems to Engage in Protected Concerted Activity

Written By Grant B. Osborne

Overview Most employers of any size or sophistication are generally familiar with the governmental agencies that regulate them, such as the U.S. Department of Labor ("USDOL"), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (…

Contractor Licensure in North Carolina

Written By Jason T. Strickland

North Carolina requires that anyone who contracts with another person or entity to construct or make improvements to any building, highway, or public utilities, including grading, or who undertakes to superintend or manage…

Ward and Smith, P.A. Bids Farewell to Frank H. Sheffield, Jr.

Ward and Smith, P.A. has bid a bittersweet, but fond, farewell to the long-time head of its Environmental Practice Group, Frank Sheffield, who has retired.  Frank started his environmental legal career in Texas as a L…

"I'm from the Government and Here to Help": The NLRB's New EXPEDITED Union "Representation Case Procedures"

Written By Will Oden and Grant B. Osborne

Union membership in the private sector, nationwide and in states like North Carolina, is hardly flying off the shelf.  It now appears that the NLRB is trying to accomplish by administrative fiat what has not been acco…