Ellis & Winters attorney Emily Melvin has been appointed to the North Carolina Bar Association’s Women in the Profession Committee and the North Carolina Bar Foundation Development Committee for the 2021-2022 fiscal year. The Women in the Profession Committee aims to encourage and maintain the active participation and advancement of […]
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Obtaining information from nonparties in a case can be riddled with procedural potholes. For state proceedings, issuing a subpoena to an out-of-state nonparty can be especially fraught with difficulties. The United States Supreme Court held long ago, in Minder v. Georgia, 183 U.S. 559, 562 (1902), […]
Gig economy companies increasingly face class action lawsuits brought by their workers. Uber, Lyft, Instacart, Doordash, and Amazon, to name a few, have confronted multiple lawsuits alleging the companies misclassified employees as independent contractors. While the merits of these claims are vigorously debated in the […]
North Carolina Attorney General, Josh Stein, recently announced the success of the “NC Legal Feeding Frenzy” in a live presentation. The Legal Feeding Frenzy is an annual program, held in March, which supports NC-based food banks providing food across the state to those facing hunger. The program is sponsored by […]