Articles

Year in Review: New Leadership at Ward and Smith

Devon Williams, a labor and employment attorney, assumed the role of Co-Managing Director of Ward and Smith on January 1, 2021, after shadowing Ken Wooten for the better part of 2020. She leads the firm alongside Greenvil…

PPP Loans, Episode Two – Is the Sequel Worth Watching?

Written By William S. Durr

Too often sequels disappoint.  Consider these bombs - Caddyshack II, Jaws – The Revenge, Mall Cop 2, Major League II, and I could go on.  But every once in a while a movie sequel hits a home run – Go…

COVID-19 Paid Leave in 2021: The Impact of New Federal Relief Bill on Employers

Written By Emily G. Massey, Grant B. Osborne, and Hayley R. Wells

"The future ain't what it used to be."  – Yogi Berra Governing can be a fickle affair. The Families First Coronavirus Response Act of 2020 ("FFCRA"), the first paid-leave of absence law to be enacted on a nati…

Flexibility in the Face of COVID-19: When Culture and Technology Align

Written By Angela P. Doughty, CIPP/US, AIGP

We didn't know what we would be asked to do during the pandemic, or how flexible we would all need to become to continue work during this unusual year. Here are just a few examples of how Ward and Smith has aligned our te…

Year in Review: Ward and Smith's Top Articles of 2020

Written By Laura V. Hudson

Over the past tumultuous year, Ward and Smith attorneys authored more than 190 articles to help our clients stay abreast of ever-changing COVID-19 impacts. That quantity of writing is unprecedented, and led to an inc…

The North Carolina Commercial Receivership Act: What Creditors Need to Know About the New Statute

Written By Thomas C. Wolff

On July 1, 2020, Governor Cooper signed the North Carolina Commercial Receivership Act (the "Act") into law.  The Act, spearheaded by the Bankruptcy Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, takes effect on Janu…