At Least Make Sure You’re Still in the Water if you Must Try It
Sometimes, when discovery in a commercial case has been a mess, a party that imposes unusual
Continue Reading Swapping Litigation Horses Midstream is a Treacherous Course
Analysis of North Carolina Business Court Decisions (and other musings)
Sometimes, when discovery in a commercial case has been a mess, a party that imposes unusual…
Continue Reading Swapping Litigation Horses Midstream is a Treacherous Course
When a motion for reconsideration…
Continue Reading To Thine Own Documents be True
Discovery in a complex commercial case can feature its fair share of mayhem, particularly where it includes a large document production. Yet, where parties plan and execute information exchanges with…
Continue Reading Discovery Holes Can be Escaped, but First: Stop Digging
Be careful what you wish for, lest it come true.
– drawn from The Old Man and Death, Aesop
In Brewer v. Grue, 2020 NCBC 59, Judge Conrad…
Continue Reading A Discovery Tale as Old as Time: Seek What You Really Want, or You May Never Find It
Jeff MacHarg & Ashley Barton Chandler
In this order from Buckley LLP v. Series 1 of Oxford Ins. Co. NC LLC, Chief Judge Bledsoe dealt with dueling motions to…
Continue Reading For Hybrid Business-Legal Communications, Privilege Depends on the “Primary Purpose”
In a dispute among the members of a dissolved soccer gear company, the Business Court flashed a “red card” on litigants who…
Continue Reading A Discovery Kick Hits “Pay Dirt” and Soccer Company Principals Face Sanctions
Following up on my post from earlier this week, the Mecklenburg County Business Court CLE concluded on Friday with the panel of Judges, Chief Judge Bledsoe, Judge McGuire,…
Continue Reading What the Business Court Judges Want You to Know
It started out like a typical Business Court case: a company filed suit against its former employees (and their…
Continue Reading A New Frontier for Sanctions
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