This is Part 2 of an examination of the 100+ “Orders of Significance” dropped by the NC Business Court late last year. Part 1 of this series (on designating cases to the Court) is here. If you haven’t heard
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NC Business Court Orders of Significance: Designating A Case To The NC Business Court (Part 1 of __)
This is the first of several intended posts on the so far unexamined “Orders of Significance” handed down by the NC Business Court. This one focuses on several Orders from Chief Judge Bledsoe on whether a case was properly designated…
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NC Business Court Steps Into Uncharted Territory On Advancement And Indemnification For Corporate Officers

Judge Robinson boldly went where no North Carolina Judge writing published Opinions had gone before last month in the case of Wheeler v. Wheeler, 2018NCBC117. The subject was a corporate officer’s right to the advancement of legal fees incurred…
NC Business Court: Attorney-Client Privilege For Corporations

The NC Business Court delivered a full Opinion last week on attorney-client privilege in Technetics Group Daytona, Inc. v. N2 Biomedical, LLC, 2018 NCBC 115. It’s on the subject of the scope of attorney-client privilege accorded to corporate clients.…
NC Business Court Deals With “Unclean Hands”

The Business Court Opinion last month in Shaw v. Gee, 2018 NCBC 108, deals with two interesting trial procedure issues: how to preserve all your arguments for making motions for…
Chief Justice Of NC Supreme Court Issues Blanket Order Extending Time In Fourteen Counties Due To Hurricane Florence

This hurricane — Florence — has proved so far to be underwhelming in Greensboro.
But North Carolina is nevertheless taking this hurricane very seriously. It’s seen as so devastating that the Chief Justice of the NC Supreme Court has issued…
Who Decides Arbitrability? Judge Or Arbitrator? (Again)

Having a client required to arbitrate a case — even though that client never signed off on an arbitration provision — is nothing new. Judge Conrad dealt with that situation late last month in Charlotte Student Housing DST v. Choate…