Brooks Pierce partners Kearns Davis and D.J. O’Brien recently secured a significant win for Brooks Pierce client Caddell Construction Company, Inc. in a near decade-long lawsuit over the construction of barracks at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina.

Eight Brooks Pierce practice areas and 17 of the Firm’s attorneys are ranked among the best in North Carolina in the 2021 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. The listing of the leading lawyers and law firms in the country is published annually by Chambers and Partners.

Access information related to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Brooks Pierce COVID-19 Response Resource Center.

In the Brooks Pierce Capital Dispatch, the Government Affairs Team provides the latest information from the North Carolina General Assembly and Governor's Office. Access the latest edition here.

For more than thirty years, North Carolina has been a hot spot for film, television and commercial productions. Our entertainment practice has broad experience counseling and representing clients located in North Carolina and beyond, including production studios and independent production companies, as well as the individual producers, directors, actors and screenwriters who make entertainment projects happen.

On May 28, the EEOC issued updated Question and Answer Guidance on COVID-19 vaccinations. Brooks Pierce attorneys Melissa Weaver and Natalie Sanders discuss the highlights of the EEOC guidance in this client alert.

Criminal prosecutions and regulatory investigations – sometimes proceeding in parallel – have become more frequent and more complex, with increasing risk to companies and individuals. Brooks Pierce has a strong team of experienced white-collar criminal defense trial attorneys, which includes former federal prosecutors, former state prosecutors, former capital and state defenders, appointed federal defenders and former state and federal judicial clerks, including a former clerk to a United States Supreme Court justice.

On June 11, Gov. Roy Cooper issued a new Executive Order 220 extending certain COVID-19 response measures. Among other things, the new Order extends Executive Order 215, which lifted many COVID-19 restrictions, but left in place some face covering mandates.