A North Carolina employment attorney can tell you if the employment agreement you signed took away your rights to sue in court in exchange for a job. And if you gave up those rights, and are fired wrongly in North Carolina, or if you are sexually harassed or discriminated against, you will not be able
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How to Avoid a #MeToo Experience with a Massage Therapist
There is nothing like a good massage at a spa where you feel safe. Turns out some massage therapists are dangerous. Massage Envy Sexual Assault Cases Recently BuzzFeed said that more than 180 women around the USA have complained they were sexually assaulted by employees of Massage Envy. Some of the women filed lawsuits which
You Can Still Report Sexual Abuse that Happened Long Ago
In some states, if you were molested by an adult when you were a child, there isn’t much you can do about it decades later. For example, even though former North Carolina Episcopal priest Howard White Jr. admitted in 1974 that he raped a 14-year old boy in Providence, Rhode Island, no one reported it
Leto Copeley reports North Carolina Court of Appeals Win in Wrongful Death Case
On the morning of July 5, 2013, Emily Cheek was driving while intoxicated and crossed over the opposite lane of the highway. Ms. Cheek slammed her car into our client as she and her friend took their morning walk. Our client lived for eight days after the horrible crash. She left behind her husband and
Does North Carolina Still Get an “F” in Teacher Screenings?
North Carolina Teacher Troy Pickens Accused of More Sex Offenses and Rape of a child Recently music teacher Troy Logan Pickens was charged with two counts of first-degree sex offense with a child and first-degree rape of a child, for actions that allegedly occurred in the fall of 2016 while Pickens was teaching at Durant