Jones and Olson were selected as the 2009 Defenders of Justice Award Recipients in Litigation for their work as lead counsel on two predatory lending class action lawsuits against large national money center banks.

OHS Canada's assistant editor Jean Lian authored the article "A Deadly Peak," which appeared in the March issue.  The article examined how the mesothelioma rate in Canada will reach its peak over the next decade.

North Carolina remains one of only four states that recognizes contributory negligence in tort cases. Tort cases involve the injury to another because of negligence. Negligence is the failure to act in a reasonable manner in the same circumstances. Another way to say negligence is careless. If someone is careless, the tort law of negligence says that someone should be accountable for their carelessness – not necessarily in N.C.