Business Court Probes Gray Areas Between “Control” and “Opportunity”
Mary Hartsell is a nurse practitioner who joined Mindpath Care Centers, North Carolina, PLLC in April 2001 as a member, minority
Continue Reading Who Holds an LLC’s “Cards”?
By Jeff MacHarg and La-Deidre Matthews.
Every litigant wants their attorneys’ fees, but actually recovering them in North Carolina is rare. Fee recovery must be authorized by rule or
Continue Reading Prove it! Lessons learned from recent N.C. Business Court rulings on fee petitions.
A targeted effort by a New York company and its president to recruit Chinese investors for a marina and hotel project in Wilmington, North Carolina brought an international spin to
Continue Reading Investors in Wilmington Project Lose Bid to Sue Company that Solicited Their Investments through Marketing Efforts in China
On October 14, 2022, the Mecklenburg County Business Court CLE was back in person, with a full day of amazing presentations and, as is tradition, concluded with the panel of
Continue Reading 2022 Business Court CLE: What the Business Court Judges Want You to KnowRobert Martin was the president of a medical device company, Vent Tech Corporation, during times that the company alleges he embezzled funds and through lax oversight allowed the company to
Continue Reading Buyer Acquired Claims “of Any Kind,” Including Seller’s Charge that its Own President’s Misconduct Forced a Sale at Suppressed PriceAs failed commercial property deals go, the one at the heart of Miriam Equities, LLC v. LB-UBS-2007-C2 Millstream Road LLC, 2022 NCBC 3, was not outside the norm
Continue Reading “As Is” Purchases of Commercial Property May Come with Limited Remedial Tools to Avoid Closing, Business Court Confirms
By Jeff MacHarg and Sarah Traynor
Think back-dating that email will help your case? Think again.
Ford v. Jurgens, 2022 NCBC Order 9 (N.C. Super. Ct. Feb. 16, 2022)
Continue Reading Business Court Imposes Sanctions on Attorney-Litigant for Falsifying Evidence
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
The CBD product market, by some estimates,
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