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e-bar (Volume 7, No. 26)
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
JANET WARD BLACK INSTALLED AS 113TH NCBA PRESIDENT
Janet Ward Black of Greensboro succeeded Clark Smith of Lexington Saturday night as the 113th president of the North Carolina Bar Association, highlighting the 2007 NCBA Annual Meeting in Asheville. Judge Allyson K. Duncan of the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, who served as president of the NCBA in 2003-04, conducted the swearing-in ceremony. Access the link below for more, including a link to the installation address.
http://www.ncbar.org/news/1/2321/index.aspx
CHARLES BECTON IS NCBA’S NEW PRESIDENT-ELECT
Raleigh attorney and longtime Durham resident Charles L. Becton was elected president-elect of the North Carolina Bar Association Saturday at the 2007 NCBA Annual Meeting in Asheville. A former N.C. Court of Appeals judge (1981-90), Becton will succeed Janet Ward Black as the 114th president of the NCBA on Saturday, June 21, at the 2008 Annual Meeting (June 19-22) in Atlantic Beach, thus becoming the first African-American male to serve as president of the NCBA.
http://www.ncbar.org/news/1/2326/index.aspx
IN MEMORIAM
It is the sad duty of the NCBA to notify the membership of the deaths of two North Carolina lawyers. John Housan “Jack” Fenner of Rocky Mount, 80, died Sunday; services are scheduled Wednesday afternoon at 4 at Wheeler & Woodlief Funeral Home, 1130 N. Winstead Ave., Rocky Mount. Grady Joseph Wheeler Jr. of Burlington, 56, died June 20. The city attorney for Graham since 1983, Wheeler was honored recently as a 2007 recipient of the NCBA’s Centennial Award.
http://www.ncbar.org/membership/memoriam/index.aspx
HENRY FRYE HEADS HONOREES AS RECIPIENT OF JOHN J. PARKER AWARD
Former N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Henry Frye headlined a distinguished roster of award winners at the 2007 Annual Meeting in Asheville by receiving the NCBA’s highest honor, the Judge John J. Parker Award; access the link below for more. In addition, NCBA Past-Presidents Jim Maxwell (Lake Award, click here) and Ozzie Ayscue (McKnight Award, click here) were honored, as were recipients of the Pro Bono Service Awards (click here), the Citizen Lawyer Awards (click here) and the newest inductees into the General Practice Hall of Fame (click here).
http://www.ncbar.org/news/1/2320/index.aspx
CHARLOTTE OBSERVER ENDORSES NCBA’S JUDICAL EVALUATION EFFORT
The controversy surrounding the reassignment and return of Mecklenburg District Court Judge Nancy Norelli has resulted in a pair of interesting developments. For openers, an article in Sunday's edition (click here) of the Charlotte Observer revealed that Norelli’s conviction rate was virtually the same as that of the county's 12 most active district court judges; her dismissal and acquittal rate in drug and gun cases was higher, yet they “represented a sliver of her caseload.” Better still, The Observer has since endorsed the NCBA's proposed Judicial Performance Evaluation program, as noted via the link below.
http://www.charlotte.com/opinion/story/174069.html
WEB SITE OF THE WEEK
Please direct your attention to the Web site of the Charlotte School of Law where, accessible via the link below, an announcement has been made in regard to the law school’s permanent home.
http://www.charlottelaw.org/mediacenter/press.asp?NewsID=33
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