by RG | Dec 26, 2025 | legal matters
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) was signed into law in July 2025. This bill becomes effective in 2026 and beyond. In addition to making permanent many of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) provisions that were set to expire, it added some new deductions and...
by RG | Dec 26, 2025 | legal matters
For more than three decades, the Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts program (IOLTA) has been one of the quiet engines of justice in North Carolina. It takes the interest from lawyers’ pooled trust accounts and directs it to civil legal aid programs that serve people...
by RG | Dec 26, 2025 | legal matters
On November 3, April Bogard Pinder joined Raleigh-based Cranfill Sumner LLP as the firm’s first chief executive officer. Cranfill is the first law firm in the Southeastern United States to appoint a CEO outside of its partnership. Pinder joined Cranfill from U.S. Bank...
by RG | Dec 26, 2025 | above the law
“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” So said Michael Douglas’s character Gordon Gekko in the hit 1987 movie “Wall Street.” The film (a December release) deftly articulated the materialistic ethos rampant in the financial world of the rough-and-tumble 1980s....
by RG | Dec 26, 2025 | above the law
While Christmas is often associated with exchanging gifts and enjoying a day off, it also commemorates the birth of Jesus — a carpenter who shifted careers to preach, teach, and perform miracles. Not all of Jesus’s actions won universal praise, however. He stirred...
