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Lawyers: Don't Let School Stand in the Way of Your Education
I have been thinking a lot about trial techniques recently between giving feedback at Teen Court and getting my mock trial team ready for their competition on February 4. I find that participating in these activities and coaching the students not only leaves you feeling awesome, but also keeps your skills sharp in between your [...]
Why The Casey Anthony Verdict Deserves Some Respect
Even though I am a personal injury trial lawyer based in Raleigh, North Carolina, I have been asked my opinion on the Casey Anthony murder trial in Florida at least a dozen times over the past month or so. I have done my best to deflect the question, as I have not followed this trial [...]
Legislative Update: I've Got Good News, and I've Got Bad News
If you’ve been reading this blog recently, you know that we at Leone Noble & Seate, L.L.P. have been following several bills in the North Carolina General Assembly that could impact your legal rights when you are harmed by another’s wrongdoing. The legislature has wrapped up their session and will go back to work on [...]
Janis in Joplin
Joplin, Missouri looks like any other mid-sized American town when you first drive into it. There is a Starbucks, a Lowe’s Home Improvement, and countless other franchised businesses scattered about the streets. As you drive, you can smell the fried goodness of McDonald’s fries, see the billboards for businesses begging for your hard-earned cash, and [...]
A: OMG, I don't know!
Not too long ago, my wife and I were at dinner with our neighbors and friends. This was two days after our third wedding anniversary, and naturally one of the friends decided to ask me what we did to celebrate and what we had given each other. Everyone looked to me waiting for my answer, including [...]
NC HB 542 Legislative Update: Keep Helping Us in Defending Your Rights
Here at Leone Noble & Seate, we have committed ourselves to defending your rights. As part of this promise, we have carefully been following two bills currently pending in the North Carolina General Assembly that threaten the rights of North Carolina citizens for the benefit of large Wall Street corporations and profits. While I have long [...]
Buckle Up
We all know that the law requires us to wear our seat belt in most circumstances when we are driving our cars down the road. The actual requirement from the statute, in lawyer terms, is “each occupant of a motor vehicle manufactured with seat belts shall have a seat belt properly fastened about his or her body [...]
NC HB 542: You Ask, I Answer
My average day is not spent arguing in a courtroom, it’s spent answering questions. All day at work, I get asked questions like, “what’s my case worth?,” “what does that mean?,” “why is the insurance company treating my claim this way?,” or, if bearing bad news, “whatchu mean?!” My responses to these questions and the [...]
