Clients in need of a new power of attorney for estate planning purposes, or for real estate transactions, should be aware that their lawyers will need to comply with a new law that became effective on January 1, 2018. As Janice Davies, an attorney at Davies Law PLLC...

Although Robert Frost’s neighbor insists in the poem, Mending Wall, that “Good fences make good neighbors,” fences don’t always prevent boundary disputes and protracted litigation between neighbors, as the parties learned in a recent North Carolina Court of Appeals...

The Ellinger Carr law firm is proud to announce that Heather D. McDowell has joined the firm as a partner. Heather joined Ellinger Carr in 2009 and focuses on complex multi-million dollar commercial loan and real estate transactions and contract negotiations,...

Heather McDowell and Steven (Steve) Carr of the Ellinger Carr law firm will be featured speakers in an upcoming program on Title Law in North Carolina. In the National Business Institute continuing legal education program scheduled March 14, 2017, in Raleigh, Heather...

The North Carolina Supreme Court announced its decision on August 19, 2016 in the Eastern Carolina Regional Housing Authority v. Lofton case.  This case was appealed by the Housing Authority from the earlier (2014) Court of Appeals decision entered in favor of the...