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The campaign to endow the Open Door Fund of the North Carolina Bar Foundation is officially underway. Formal announcement of the fundraising drive took place on Friday, June 21, at the North Carolina Bar Association Annual Meeting in Charlotte. NCBA + NCBF Past Presidents Caryn McNeill and Mark Holt, who serve as founding co-chairs of the Open Door Fund and…

Seven new members of the NCBA Board of Governors were elected to three-year terms on Friday, June 21, at the 2024 NCBA Annual Meeting in Charlotte. Their election was made official during the Annual Meeting Business Meeting and Luncheon at the Charlotte Convention Center. Newly elected board members who are beginning three-year terms on the Board of Governors in 2024-25…

Samantha Gordon of McIntyre Elder Law in Charlotte and John Cella Jr. of Ragsdale Liggett in Raleigh have been elected to three-year at-large terms on the North Carolina Bar Foundation Board of Directors, and Jon Heyl of Fox Rothschild in Charlotte has been appointed to a three-year term as chair of the NCBF Endowment Committee. The NCBF Board of Directors…

The North Carolina Bar Association honored the 2024 Legal Legends of Color (LLOC) on Thursday, June 20, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Charlotte Uptown. The ninth LLOC Awards Celebration was a featured event of the NCBA Annual Meeting. Presented by the Legal Legends of Color Subcommittee of the NCBA Minorities in the Profession Committee, the LLOC Awards “honor attorneys…

The North Carolina Bar Association honored numerous individual and group award winners on Friday, June 21, at the Charlotte Convention Center. The Awards Dinner and Presidential Installation was a featured event of the 2024 NCBA Annual Meeting. The Citizen Lawyer Awards, Pro Bono Awards and Young Lawyers Division Awards were presented along with the Paralegal Division’s Distinguished Paralegal Award and…

The North Carolina Bar Foundation, in partnership with Elon University School of Law, hosted a Wills for Heroes clinic on Saturday, April 13, at Elon Law in Greensboro. A volunteer workforce of nine attorneys, 16 law students and four notaries public produced 79 documents at no cost for 20 grateful first responders and spouses from Guilford County and surrounding areas….

The North Carolina Bar Foundation and the NCBA Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Committee recently held two Name Change Clinics in the Piedmont Triad. The first clinic, conducted in partnership with Wake Forest University School of Law, Pride Winston-Salem and Equality NC, was held on Saturday, April 13, at Wake Forest Law in Winston-Salem. Seventeen clients were served by a…

The NCBA Minorities in the Profession (MIP) Committee presented ¡Adelanté! | Moving Forward! 2024 on Saturday, February 2, at the North Carolina Bar Center. The annual program is designed to empower law students and young lawyers from diverse backgrounds through sessions covering topics such as building your online presence, discussions on embracing diversity, and making informed financial decisions throughout your…

The NCBA Professionalism Committee’s annual CLE was held on Friday, December 1, at the N.C. Bar Center. The In-Person program was also offered via Live Webcast and will be available On-Demand by mid-December. Professionalism Committee Chair Gill Beck of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina in Asheville and Keith Faulkner of Charleston Southern University in…

The North Carolina Bar Association provides a compilation of swearing-in ceremonies across the state, using information provided by local bar organizations. In addition, soon-to-be admitted attorneys may wish to familiarize themselves with information on the N.C. State Bar website regarding admission to the bar. Newly admitted members of the N.C. State Bar receive their first two years of NCBA membership…