The journey from a Letter of Intent to a final agreement is often perilous, with the parties’ discussions and intentions wrangled by lawyers and company executives to memorialize deals with
Continue Reading Got an LOI that Extols Close Cooperation Among the Parties? Make Sure the Surviving Agreement Says it Too.
The Business Court’s docket is jammed full of disputes among entrepreneurs, joint venturers, and hopeful co-owners that go off the rails. Typically, counsel are along for each side to guide
Continue Reading Parties May Not Always Get Oral Argument on Business Court Motions, But It Doesn’t Hurt to Flag the Need for It
The war over TikTok has many battle lines. A Biden era law that would have banned TikTok as of January 1, 2025 if it didn’t find a U.S. owner for
Continue Reading TikTok’s New Domestic Owners Still Face an Array of State Consumer Protection Claims Over Unfairly Targeting Minors
A letter or three per year, alerting of a data breach at a company with which you’ve interacted, is now par for the course. Hackers, and the companies whose data
Continue Reading Data Breach 101: a Curriculum Spoiler for NC College StudentsBy Jeff MacHarg and Camryn Rohr.
Judge Conrad’s Final Judgment in Airtron, Inc. v. Bradley Allen Heinrich ends this years-long Chapter 75, trade secret case. No doubt, the plaintiff (Airtron)
Continue Reading No lawyer, no problem. Justice will still be served.
In a dispute about tax preparation businesses that one member of Compass Tax Services LLC was selling to the entity, precious little was for certain. Even the parties’ agreement lacked
Continue Reading A Tax(ing) Return: Sale of Prep Franchises Fails and Remaining Assets Come Back
Joshua Langley worked for Autocraft, Inc. for more than five years and rose to have wide access to its business affairs and “substantial responsibility for its overall operations.” While still
Continue Reading When Employees Become Competitors, NC Business Court Keeps a Careful Watch on Disturbances in Marketplace Force
After a six-day jury trial including evidence of “no show” jobs, questionable “friends and family” payroll slots, and allegations of fraud and embezzlement, a Mecklenburg County jury returned a $3-million-plus
Continue Reading When Doing the Same Thing Over Again and Expecting Different Results is not Insane, a Court Explains
The Palmetto Medical Group had a “messy divorce.”
Palmetto’s three physicians had settled into “mutual distrust” and got a good distance down the road toward separation by negotiating a Practice
Continue Reading When “Divorcing” Physicians Scuffle Over Contractual Plans to Honor Patient Choice, do they Render Medical Service?
Claims not Within Physician-Patient Relationship, Court says, but also are “Entwined with” and “Directly Tied” to Care
Charles McNew was injured in a fall at his home in June 2021
Continue Reading Patient’s Second “Injury” – Billing for Medical Care