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"Emergency Use" No More: FDA Approves First COVID-19 Vaccine

Written By Grant B. Osborne

There was a time in which employers and employees weren’t vexed with viruses, vaccines, and their respective duties and rights. That seems like a long time ago, but it wasn’t. The World Health Organization dec…

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Making Your Case: Strategies for Briefing in the Supreme Court of North Carolina

Written By Chris S. Edwards

Appellate practice can be challenging. In complicated cases, it's made all the more challenging by the word limits often imposed by the pertinent rules of procedure. For example, in the North Carolina Court of Appeals, th…

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Odyssey and E-mail Service Under the New and Improved NC Rule 5

Written By Payton Collier Bullard and E. Bradley Evans

In October of 2020, House Bill 679 made significant changes to Rule 5 ("Service and Filing of Pleadings and Other Papers") of the North Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure. The amended Rule 5 creates two important changes. …

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Preventing Trust and Estate Disputes

Written By Jenna Fruechtenicht Butler

The death of a loved one should be a time for a family to come together.  As a trust and estate litigator, unfortunately, I often see families fall apart.  Every family's situation is different, but certain issu…

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How the Law Is Grappling With Free Expression, COVID-19, Diversity, and More

Written By Justin T. Hill

Between COVID-19, last year’s demonstrations for racial justice, and a new president, there are many legal issues employers may need to consider — or reconsider. A quartet of Ward and Smith attorneys highlight…

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The End is Near for North Carolina's Hemp Pilot Program

Written By Tyler J. Russell and Allen N. Trask, III

For some time, North Carolina's hemp farmers and growers have questioned the fate of our hemp cultivation pilot program, authorized and adopted under the Agricultural Act of 2014 ("2014 Farm Bill"), and how the eventual en…

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