A recent lawsuit accuses Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill of agreeing not to hire each other’s medical faculty—a so-called “anti-poaching” agreement—in order to suppress the labor market for medical school professors/personnel and keep wages low. [...]

Everybody's got them — simple indulgences that help you unwind and clear your head at the end of a long day or week. This year, Business North Carolina asked our 16 Legal Elite category winners [...]

(CNN) — Cara Pressman sobbed in the big red chair in her living room. The 15-year-old tried to absorb the devastating news relayed by her parents: that their insurance company, Aetna, denied her for a [...]

Key Democrats want a government funding bill to maintain the solvency of pension plans for hundreds of thousands of workers. The next potential sleeper cause of a government shutdown? Pensions. Congress barely averted a shutdown [...]

The current outrage sparked by allegations of sexual misconduct against Harvey Weinstein and other public figures has sparked a national conversation about workplace harassment. Since October 5th, when multiple women came forward naming Weinstein and [...]

According to Forbes Magazine, only one-third of all small businesses survive four years. The Small Business Administration cites better odds: up to fifty percent make it to year five. Starting and sustaining a new business [...]

Mention the word and people often associate alimony with dollars and a complicated process. Who pays and what is it going to cost me? How much will I receive and how is it calculated? Alimony [...]

Tucked away in the 429-page TAX CUTS AND JOBS ACT introduced on November 2, 2017 by the Republican House leadership, is Section 1309 – Repeal of deduction for alimony payments which removes the current favorable tax [...]

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) is a federal law that establishes minimum standards for most retirement and health plans in private industry. That means that your 403(b), 401(k), pension, and employee [...]

When you think of a divorce attorney, a scary image may come to mind – an image of someone who is gruff, competitive, uncompromising, and ready to fight out every issue in a courtroom. While [...]

Last week, Richard Smith stepped down as CEO of Equifax following the Company’s massive data breach affecting an estimated 143 million people in the US and abroad. In spite of retiring under this cloud, Smith [...]

What is ERISA? “ERISA” — or the Employee Retirement Income Security Act—is a law that regulates most of the benefits that you receive through your employment. For example, if your employer provides you a disability [...]