Cases are designated to the North Carolina Business Court as “mandatory complex” matters. But that doesn’t mean that the issues swirling at the center of the disputes have to be complex, the court’s top judge has declared. Setting out to ...

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In a case of dueling dentists, the state Business Court has found that the word ‘Carolina’ is something to be shared.

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The law firm of Martin & Jones, which has three locations in North Carolina, has settled a suit against a former shareholder — after a state Business Court judge held that the firm misinterpreted a provision in its own operating agreement.

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When Michael Brown, a real estate investor who has accused two businessmen of defrauding him out of more than $2 million, received tax returns and bank records from the pair he was hoping to get some clues about what happened to his money.

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Grasinger v. Williams (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-221-16, 10 pp.) (Ann Marie Calabria, J.) Appealed from Wake County Superior Court (Gregory McGuire, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Plaintiff’s complaint was filed a year before the General Assembly amended G.S. § 7A-27, transferring ...

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State ex rel. Cooper v. Western Sky Financial, LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-15-0855, 38 pp.) (Gregory McGuire, J.) 2015 NCBC 84 Holding: Defendant Western Sky Financial, LLC’s loan contract is binding as soon as the borrower signs it, so when ...

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The LegalZoom.com customers who joined in a now-defunct class-action lawsuit against the self-help legal website are going to have to arbitrate their remaining unauthorized practice of law claims.

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North Carolina Business Court Chief Judge James Gale has dismissed a class-action lawsuit against LegalZoom.com.

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The state’s unauthorized practice case against bankrupt debt collection company Orion Processing is rolling forward, albeit very slowly.

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What is a lawyer supposed to do with more than 1,000 unendorsed personal checks, cashier checks and money orders that belong to his client’s clients and have been rejected by a bank?

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