North Carolina’s IOLTA Freeze Puts Rural Justice at Risk

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...

Cranfill Names April Bogard Pinder as First CEO

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...

Janet Ward Black: ‘The World Needs Visionaries’

Janet Ward Black died on Sunday, Nov. 2, after a brief battle with ALS. She was 66.    Ward Black was the first woman to serve as president of both the North Carolina Advocates for Justice and the North Carolina Bar Association. She was the founder of one of the...