A Virginia judge has blocked a lawsuit filed by the CEO of a now-defunct and discredited lab company that accused a big national law firm—which had announced only a day earlier that it would begin winding down its own ...

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A Charlotte law firm accused of botching a real estate closing in 1999 has successfully shooed away the loan servicing company that brought the ill-advised malpractice action.

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Brewer v. Hunter (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-07-0839, 14 pp.) (Mark Davis, J.) Appealed from Gaston County Superior Court (F. Donald Bridges, J.) N.C. App. Holding: After surgical complications confined the plaintiff-patient to a wheelchair, he sought to discover the operative ...

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Harris v. Ballantine (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-16-0823, 12 pp.) (Mark Davis, J.) Appealed from Guilford County Superior Court (John Craig III, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Since the parties forecasted conflicting evidence as to whether the plaintiff-attorney agreed to represent ...

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A malpractice lawsuit against a Charlotte law firm will be allowed to move forward after the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled Dec. 3 that it wasn’t necessarily the client’s fault that he didn’t spot the alleged mistake until after ...

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Barrett v. SSC Charlotte Operating Co. Where plaintiff alleges that defendants dropped him on the floor while attempting to move him from his bed to a shower chair, plaintiff’s claim sounds in ordinary negligence rather than medical malpractice. We reverse the trial court’s order granting defendants’ motion to dismiss.

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