About the Frenzy
NC Legal Feeding Frenzy is an annual joint program of the NCBA Young Lawyers Division and Feeding the Carolinas food banks. It aims to fight hunger across North Carolina by uniting the legal community in support of local food banks. Over half of all soup kitchens, food pantries, and other meal programs rely entirely on volunteers.
THE RESPONSE
In response to this urgent need, the Office of the Attorney General, The Young Lawyers Division of the North Carolina Bar Association, the North Carolina Bar Foundation, and Feeding The Carolinas have joined efforts to create the North Carolina Legal Feeding Frenzy—a food and fund drive competition among all North Carolina law firms, law schools, and organizations to assist Feeding The Carolinas’ Food Banks. In this friendly competition, the law firm, school, or organization with the highest average individual donation (calculated by the team’s total donations divided by the team’s total number of donors) will be awarded the prestigious and highly coveted “Attorney General’s Cup.” In addition, the Attorney General will present additional awards in categories including: Sole Practitioner, Small Firm, Medium Firm, Large Firm, Law School, Government/Public Interest, and Corporate/In-House Counsel.
PARTICIPATE
Register your team.
Registration for the #NCLFF25 will open on February 17, 2025, at 8:00 a.m. and run through the last day of the competition, March 31.
click here To register your team, select “Second Harvest Food Bank of Southeast NC – (Fayetteville – serving South/Eastern counties)” for Local Food Bank location and follow the step-by-step instructions.
Teams with multiple offices throughout the state may register separately, designating on the Team Application form the local FTC food bank to which that office will make its donations. The multiple office registrations and corresponding donations will be combined at the end of the competition to determine the team’s total donations. When completing multiple Team Applications, please include the total number of employees at your firm/organization across all offices. All registrations should include a contact person who NCBA YLD LFF organizers may contact throughout the competition.
Get the word out.
Between March 1 – 31, 2025, encourage members of your team to donate food and funds to your office’s local food bank. Past winners have credited much of their success to sending frequent inter-office emails with information about the LFF and food insecurity in North Carolina, hosting Friday “jeans” drives, and asking friends and family outside of the office to contribute to their team’s efforts.