Judge Bob Hunter Joins the Firm
Higgins Benjamin, PLLC, is pleased to announce that Judge Robert N. “Bob” Hunter Jr. is rejoining the firm. His practice will focus on alternative dispute resolution, federal and state appeals, and election law, effective April 1, 2019. Hunter has recently been appointed to the American Arbitration Association Commercial Disputes panel and has been a certified... Read More
Higgins Benjamin Has Three Attorneys on 2019 Super Lawyers List
Three attorneys from Higgins Benjamin have been selected to the 2019 North Carolina Super Lawyers® List. Each year, Super Lawyers® recognizes attorneys who have distinguished themselves in their legal practice areas. Only five percent of all attorneys in a state are recognized as Super Lawyers®. Those selected to the 2018 North Carolina Super Lawyers® list include:... Read More
Attorneys from Higgins Benjamin Named to 2018 North Carolina Super Lawyer List
Higgins Benjamin is pleased to announce that three (3) of its attorneys have been selected to the 2018 North Carolina Super Lawyers® List. Each year, Super Lawyers® recognizes attorneys who have distinguished themselves in their legal practice areas. Only five percent of all attorneys in a state are recognized as Super Lawyers®. Those selected to the... Read More
Margaret Chase Becomes Partner With The Firm
Higgins Benjamin, PLLC, is pleased to announce that Margaret McNairy Chase has become a partner in the firm. Chase, who joined the firm in 2014, is a graduate of Wake Forest University School of Law and received her undergraduate degree in Political Science from Furman University. Her practice focuses on Real Estate Law with an... Read More
Peter Isakoff Publishes Article in Elon Law Review
Peter D. Isakoff authored an article entitled “H.B.2 — A Lesson from History” that was published in the Elon Law Review, Volume 9, Issue No. 1. The article compares the Federal government’s threat to cut federal education funding to North Carolina in light of H.B.2 with the refusal of Prince Edward County, Virginia to integrate... Read More
Fred Berry Joins The Firm
Fred Berry joins Higgins Benjamin PLLC
Four Higgins Benjamin Attorneys Named to 2017 North Carolina Super Lawyer List
Higgins Benjamin is pleased to announce that four (4) of its attorneys have been selected to the 2017 North Carolina Super Lawyers® List. Every year, Super Lawyers® recognizes attorneys who have distinguished themselves in their legal practice areas. Only five percent of all attorneys in a state are recognized as Super Lawyers®. The four selected to... Read More
Fourth Circuit’s RLM Communications, LLC v. Tuschen Tackles Noncompetition and Trade Secret Misappropriation Issues.
Noncompetition agreements (“non-competes”) present thorny issues. In most cases, you have a former employee who has signed a black-and-white contract prohibiting him or her from engaging in certain employment, and the employee goes and does the one thing that the contract specifically prohibits. Not that long ago, most judges would view the matter purely as... Read More
N.C. Supreme Court Adheres to Strict Blue-Pencil Rule, Rejecting Role for Courts in Rewriting Clauses
The North Carolina Supreme Court rejected the notion that private parties can enlist the courts to re-write overly broad noncompetition provisions so that they can be enforced. Rejecting the lower court’s straying from the strict blue-pencil rule, Justice Edmunds reasoned that “[a]llowing litigants to assign to the court their drafting duties as parties to a... Read More
Jon Wall and Bert Andia Selected as Legal Elite 2016
Two lawyers from Higgins Benjamin were named by Business North Carolina magazine as the Legal Elite in their individual field of legal practice. Jonathan Wall was selected as Legal Elite in Employment Law; Bert Andia was selected as Legal Elite in Intellectual Property Law. Business North Carolina magazine asks lawyers to nominate their peers that... Read More