If mascots came to moot courts
The 2019 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament was tipping off just as Lawyers Weekly went to press, so Sidebar won’t embarrass itself by publishing its picks for the Final Four, but March is...
View ArticleIn RV-turned-office, new firm is popping up
The 33-foot Winnebago Vista was hard to miss when Sidebar rolled into the parking lot of a shopping center in northeast Raleigh—which, for the law firm that operates out of it, is sort of the point....
View ArticlePassive voice was written about
Sidebar is always gently reminding his reporters to be thoughtful in choosing whether to use the active or passive voice in a story. There’s a time to write “a spy planted the bug in the office”...
View ArticleN.C. attorneys help rapper win Fyre fight
It’s hard to imagine how the Fyre Festival could have possibly been a bigger disaster. Promoters had hyped it as the experience of a lifetime, a luxurious music festival set on a dazzling Bahamian...
View ArticleLaw grad presses on with libel suit against judge, law blog
A recent law school graduate isn’t giving up on his lawsuit alleging the online site Above the Law defamed him in a 2018 story that referred to him as a “dumb kid” and “entitled ponce.” On Jan. 6, U.S....
View ArticleBasket case: Worker left hanging after laundry-related injury
Remember traveling? Getting dressed for work? Those were the days, but they weren’t without their risks, as Sidebar was reminded while reading a recent North Carolina Court of Appeals decision from the...
View ArticleSidebar shakes family tree, finds N.C.’s first female lawyer
Sidebar knows that many attorneys are history buffs, and we recently came across a tidbit that’s germane to not only our history, but practice of law in North Carolina as well. It’s well-known in legal...
View ArticleLitigant cries foul over court’s Baseball Rule
Baseball is America’s national pastime, but has time perhaps passed it by? It’s the sort of question that might be debated in bar rooms and living rooms, but Sidebar never expected to hear the question...
View ArticleWhere were you on the night of the crime?
The wrongful conviction of a North Carolina man has helped inspire researchers on the other side of the planet to study just how well people can remember where they were and what they were doing at a...
View ArticleBook him
In prison, legal research and law books can serve as an enduring source of hope in a place where hope scarcely resides. And when someone does something that could dash that hope, an inmate serving life...
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