This blog and informational section of our website is meant to provide you with answers to commonly asked questions as well as our special announcements and other updates.
This year, we celebrate Essex Richards’ 40th anniversary, as well as the retirement of Ken Essex, one of our founding partners. We miss Ken, but deeply appreciate his personifying and nurturing our culture of service. Ken’s legacy continues through the community engagement of others at …
Essex Richards Attorney Natalie Potter recently completed her certification as an Extention Master Gardener. To gain the certification, Natalie attended two classes a week for ten weeks, and then volunteered for forty hours as a resource to the community on horticultural topics. The Extension Master Gardener Program …
Essex Richards earned a national ranking for its ERISA Litigation practice area in the 2017 edition of U.S. News-Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms.” ERISA (which stands for the Employee Retirement Security Income Act of 1974) is a federal law that governs private employers’ retirement, health, …
Essex Richards is proud to host Glennon Doyle Melton at the upcoming Women Helping Women event. Glennon is the best-selling author of Carry on Warrior and Love Worrier, and of the widely followed blog, Momestary. The event will be held on November 4 at Dana …
The Charlotte Women Attorneys and the Women Physicians Section of the Mecklenburg County Medical Society proudly announce the sixth annual Fighting for Women with Fashion event to benefit victims of domestic violence. In the past five years, the Fighting for Women with Fashion events have raised …
Essex Richards, P.A. is pleased to announce that The Best Lawyers© in America has named 7 of its attorneys to the 2017 list in the publication’s newly released 23rd edition.
Essex Richards attorney Heather Culp will join thirteen lawyers from around the state of North Carolina to update on the year’s legal developments. Culp will provide the updates on consumer bankruptcy, covering the basics of bankruptcy for individuals and married couples with an emphasis on …
The use of social media has been exploding. Nearly two-thirds of American adults are now on a social networking site using them for many reasons including an opportunity to get things off their chests. It’s a bedrock of free speech but one that presents a …
Business Torts: Deception, Fraud & the Usual Suspects Thursday, September 29, 2016 from 9:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. at the Bar & Foundation Center The purpose of my presentation is to share basic law and procedure on prosecuting and defending claims of unfair and deceptive …
On May 11, 2016, President Obama signed into law the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA), which received extensive bipartisan support in Congress. The DTSA gives trade secret owners a new tool against the misappropriation of their trade secrets. It is the first federal …
Originally published by North Carolina Lawyer’s Weekly on May 24, 2016. By Jonathan E. Buchan A myth, according to my well-worn companion Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, is “an unfounded and false notion.” The thicket of rules and statutory provisions governing mediated settlement conferences in North …