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Winning Appeal: An Oldie But A Goodie
This firm recently won another appeal involving attorneys fees -- not to be confused with THIS RECENT CASE where this firm also had an award of...
Legislature Limits Appeal To N.C. Supreme Court
For many years, three different options have existed for appealing a decision from the NC Court of Appeals to the NC Supreme Court: 1) The appealing...
Winning Appeal Featured In Law360
This firm recently won an appeal in Smith Debnam Narron Drake Saintsing & Myers LLP v. Paul Muntjan. A blog post with details about the case will be...
Winning Appeal: $50,000 Judgment For Attorneys Fees And Costs Reversed
This firm recently won a decision in Ryan v. Ryan, a family law case revolving around a custody dispute. We were able to successfully argue that the...
A Lawyer’s Lawyer
There is perhaps no greater show of respect for a lawyer than to be asked by another lawyer to come on a case. I find this to be particularly true...
Winning Appeal: Dog “Custody”
There may be no truer example of the adage "no case too small" that this firm's most recent appellate win in Franklin v. Palmer. Our client owned a...
Winning Appeal: 30 Year Sentence Vacated
This firm recently won a criminal appeal in the case of State v. Andre Lester. Mr. Lester had been convicted of statutory rape of a child, statutory...
An Unexpected Turn
For those of you who read this blog, you may recall the post I made just a couple months ago about expecting the unexpected: LINK In that post, I...
Petitions for Rehearing En Banc
The N.C. Court of Appeals considers cases in panels of three judges. That means that three judges, randomly grouped together for a period of time,...