If you’ve been injured in an accident, your bills can pile up before you know it. You want to receive fair compensation, but worry about the intentions of the other parties involved in your accident.

What if they attempt to lowball you or delay payment? Should you get help from a personal injury attorney? Will that just make things move more slowly?

How can you balancing paying off your bills as soon as possible with making sure you get the compensation you need and deserve to properly recover?

In short, you have to [...]

Most people can remember a time as a teenager when they or a friend were pressured to shoplift. Maybe it was something simple, like candy or a pair of socks. Maybe you got away with it. Shoplifting is typically regarded as a crime committed by teenagers, but in reality, adults shoplift more than teenagers.

If you are caught shoplifting in North Carolina, you may face serious penalties and have a long legal road ahead. A shoplifting charge can be a major headache. Depending on the value of the merchandise you’re accused of stealing, [...]

A restaurant caused you food poisoning.

A drunk driver hit you and caused damage to your car.

You slipped and fell in a hotel stairwell because there was no light.

These seem like pretty clear incidents of negligence, right? So you file a claim to receive just compensation. Because the lawsuit seems like an easy win, you don’t not worry about it until the date of your trial.

In most place, this might not be such a big deal. But if you live in Alabama, Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia, or right [...]

Driving under the influence of alcohol is one of the most common and preventable crimes that occur on North Carolina roads.

According to the CDC, there were over 4,000 people killed in drunk driving accidents from 2003-2011 in our state. Nationwide, one out of every three traffic deaths involves a drunk driver. And these numbers don’t even begin to count the number of injuries and arrests related to drunk driving.

Because driving drunk is considered a preventable crime, North Carolina takes it extremely seriously. But there are two sides to every DUI accident. [...]

You know that certain crimes are considered felonies in the state of North Carolina. And you probably know that felonies are “worse” than misdemeanors.

But what does that really mean? How long are the punishments associated with felonies? What makes something a felony in North Carolina?

First off, there are two types of criminal charges: felonies and misdemeanors. As mentioned above, felonies are the more severe of the two.

Felonies have different classifications for different crimes, but that does not mean a felony sentence is set in stone. Let’s look at the 11 [...]