At the annual meeting of the North Carolina Bar Association in Asheville on June 20, 2013, Leto was elected to serve a three year term on the Litigation Section Council. The Litigation Section currently has 2,153 members, who devote a substantial part of their practices to handling cases in court. The section publishes a judges
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Title IX Network unites, empowers college victims of rape
In the wake of the sexual assault scandal at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, women who would not be silenced are finding strength in one another. Annie Clark and Andrea Pino have formed what they call the Title IX Network, a coalition of nationwide college students calling for an overhaul of the way
New book examines Catholic Church abuse scandal
A new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael D’Antonio provides a compelling, if stomach-turning account of the Roman Catholic Church’s long history of covering up reports of sexual abuse. Book reviewers are calling Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal the most comprehensive account of the church’s sexual abuse scandal to date. D’Antonio,
Rotary Club book drive provides thousands of books to North Carolina kids
Leto Copeley participated in the Hillsborough Rotary Club’s exceptionally successful book drive, a nine-month campaign to collect children’s literature for local organizations that work to improve literacy among low-income children in Durham, Orange, Lee, Johnston and Wake counties. The project was a group effort of District 7710 of Rotary International, which includes all the Rotary
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals turns away claim of employee who claimed a sexually hostile work environment
This week the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, based in Richmond, Virginia, rejected the appeal of a former employee who claimed that she had been the victim of constant discrimination, harassment, assault, and subjection to a sexually hostile work environment. For the three-judge panel in the case of Balas v. Huntington Ingalls