The head of North Carolina’s Business Court has delivered a more than $9 million smackdown to a pair of related defunct debt settlement companies and an expat lawyer accused of defrauding thousands of desperate debtors. Chief Judge James Gale entered ...

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The motion had been on his desk for more than a year. But when he was finally able to sit down and make a ruling, the chief judge of North Carolina’s Business Court did not struggle with his decision to ...

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The elusive businessman behind an embattled and now-bankrupt debt settlement company hasn’t been paying his lawyer, according to a recent filing with the North Carolina Business Court.

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World Law South, the debt settlement company that has been facing off against the North Carolina State Bar over allegations that it is engaged in the unauthorized practice of law, is no more.

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Raleigh attorney A.P. Carlton suspects that the North Carolina State Bar filed a civil contempt motion against him in an attempt to prevent him from defending a debt settlement company accused of unauthorized practice of law.

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It might be fun, profitable and even a little daring when you’re Johnny Football or Famous Jameis, but when you’re Joe Schmo, signing your name over and over again can border on torturous.

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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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Business Court Judges James Gale was going to dismiss World Law South’s lawsuit against the North Carolina State Bar a few months ago. But then the bar made a move that could keep the suit alive.

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World Law South, the debt settlement company that is suing the N.C. State Bar, has asked a judge to order two statewide collections law firms to stop interfering with its business.

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The North Carolina State Bar’s legal squabble with a debt settlement corporation calling itself World Law South has barely begun, but things have already gotten ugly. Both sides are flinging accusations of sham filings, forum shopping and other shadiness like mashed potatoes in a food fight – and this is less than two months after World Law South sued the bar.

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