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Byline: Sharon McCloskey A restrictive covenant prohibiting the use of lots for business or commercial purposes is ambiguous when applied to owners entering into short-term vacation rentals of their property, [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey Long before their quibble over a fee split required the attention of the Court of Appeals, Donny Dunn and Hank Dart had worked well together. After the [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey Ben Long, the painter known for his frescoes in churches and building lobbies, including the three-panel piece inside the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, thought [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey Andrew Ballard had the idea for a marina on Lake Keowee, had a specific spot in mind, and had a lease in hand. What he needed were [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey It's been more than 40 years since Jeffrey MacDonald was accused of brutally murdering his pregnant wife and two young daughters in their house on Castle Drive [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey It's not every day that attorneys take a road trip to the nation's highest court to argue about bare buttocks. But that's what Brooks Pierce attorneys Wade [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey MI Windows and Doors was sitting pretty in February, when a Charleston jury awarded the window manufacturer more than $13 million in damages on bad faith counterclaims [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey The notion of a bypass around U.S. 74 from Charlotte into Union County had been kicking around for years before the newly formed Turnpike Authority in 2007 [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey The national media is agog these days over the very public implosion of another high-flying law firm, New York's Dewey & LeBoeuf. At last count, at least [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey This February, while the battle over health care reform ratcheted up to the Supreme Court, attorneys from the litigation powerhouse Boies Schiller and their North Carolina co-counsel [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey While most firms looked to cut expenses and reduce staff in order to survive over the past few years, Greenville's Gallivan White & Boyd did just the [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey -1- Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice (1 in 2011) Locations and number of attorneys at each: Atlanta 60 (65 in 2011); Baltimore 7 (8 in 2011); California [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey A new world order arrived in 2011 as growth in Charleston and elsewhere attracted national and international practices to the state's legal community. K&L Gates, with offices [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey For some firms, the recession presented opportunities for growth, particularly those with established mortgage banking and creditor's rights departments. That certainly held true for Columbia-based Rogers Townsend [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey Perhaps you had to squint a bit to see them, but there were signs in 2011 that the worst may be fading. Among the 25 firms in [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey Charlotte in 2008 probably wasn't the ideal spot for a law firm merger. Granted, the city had some boom years just before, and few could anticipate at [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey When the recession hit, Raleigh's Smith Anderson took a look at its people and its clients, and decided to invest. "We were taking really good care of [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey How many North Carolina law firms have an agribusiness practice group? New Bern-based Ward and Smith does. Although attorneys at the firm have practiced in that area [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey Last year, with 162 lawyers, Legal Aid of North Carolina would have ranked No. 5 in the state, ahead of K&L Gates. In 2011, that number dropped [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey When Cranfill, Sumner & Hartzog opened its doors in 1992, it was home to 27 attorneys. That number has steadily climbed to now over 100. "We've certainly [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey Jena Edelman knew she needed help when she graduated from Campbell Law School in Raleigh last May, surrounded by classmates who for the most part had yet [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey When a colleague and friend of Greensboro attorney Bob Cone called and said he had a dog of a case for him, he wasn't kidding. The Pennsylvania-based [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey Jackson Paper had a better idea for making boxes. The Sylva-based maker of corrugated paper used for cardboard wanted to build a plant, funded by smaller box [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey When Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. attorney Lynn Szymoniak received a foreclosure notice from her lender in July 2008, her fraud antennae went up. She'd unsuccessfully tried to [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey It had to be done. That's what North Carolina state Rep. George Cleveland thought last April when he introduced a bill barring courts from applying foreign law [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey With a recent decision by Business Court Judge John R. Jolly Jr. certifying their class claims against KB Homes Raleigh Durham, Inc., plaintiffs in Elliott v. KB [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey Just when residential mortgage lenders had hoped the worst was behind them with several private and government settlements coming to a close, questionable lending practices are once [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey Buddy Brand and three of his broker colleagues at the Florence, S.C., office of Wachovia Securities already had one foot out the door when Wachovia fired them [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey In late January, Texas-based Smart Start Inc. proudly announced its entree into North Carolina as the first provider of breath alcohol interlock ignition devices to be certified [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey In late January, Texas-based Smart Start Inc. proudly announced its entree into North Carolina as the first provider of breath alcohol interlock ignition devices to be certified [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey Why does a hospital bed cost patients thousands of dollars for a three-day stay? And how can a patient challenge that charge? That’s what Charlotte resident Robert [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey Second-guessing trial strategy is second nature to litigators, particularly if the client wound up on the losing side. Even worse, though, is second-guessing by the court at [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskeyThe state’s Map Act was front and center Wednesday afternoon as the Court of Appeals heard arguments in Beroth Oil Co. v. NCDOT, the proposed class action pending [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskeyThe message sent last week by the Supreme Court to junior lenders left hanging as unchecked trustee attorney’s fees eat into foreclosure proceeds essentially was this: We’d love [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey It’s the visual that gets you. A late night stop for a suspected DWI. The driver out of the car, stumbling through sobriety tests. A heated exchange [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey Maybe alimony orders ought to have sunset provisions, to coincide with the sunset years of life. Court of Appeals Judge James E. Lockemy, who wrote wistfully last [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey When Paula Smith and her husband put their house in Winston-Salem up for sale nine years ago, they had plenty of lookers, but no buyers. They couldn't [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey When the mothers of Dylan Walker and Austin Maness, then 9 and 12, picked up their sons from Clemson University's Camp Military Kid - a program held [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey When the mothers of Dylan Walker and Austin Maness, then 9 and 12, picked up their sons from Clemson University’s Camp Military Kid — a program held [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey A pharmacy customer survived a motion to dismiss her complaint against Rite Aid for negligent dispensing of a prescription, sidestepping for the moment South Carolina’s pre-filing requirements [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey When Paula Smith and her husband put their house in Winston-Salem up for sale nine years ago, they had plenty of lookers, but no buyers. They couldn’t [...]

Byline: Sharon McCloskey Ann Majestic arrived at the National Press Club in Washington with little time to spare. "How was lunch?" the Wake County School Board attorney asked the audience. [...]