I couldn’t pass on writing about a Business Court Order that the Court itself described as “Sua Sponte Order on Abusive Language.” This is In re SE Eye Ctr, 2023 NCBC Order 15.
Abusive language? That might be too complimentary a description of the stream of vitriol let loose by Mark McDaniel, a “contingent
Judge Robinson boldly went where no North Carolina Judge writing published Opinions had gone before last month in the case of Wheeler v. Wheeler, 2018NCBC117. The subject was a corporate officer’s right to the advancement of legal fees incurred in defending against a lawsuit.
Judge Robinson noted that there was only “one case
I have been complaining about the fees approved by the NC Business Court for those lawyers obtaining disclosure only settlements since there was a Wachovia Bank. Some of you may not be old enough to remember that venerable bank.
Now, at last, Judge Gale has found a disclosure only settlement to have yielded (almost)
The title of Judge Bledsoe’s Opinion in Carolina Home Solutions 1, Inc. v. Crystal Home Solutions, Inc., 2018 NCBC 57, is ominous in itself. It is titled “Order and Opinion Denying Pro Hac Vice Admission and Referral to the Georgia and North Carolina State Bars.”
How hard is it to get a pro
It’s not very often that I see a fee application in a settled class action in the Business Court that doesn’t strike me as requesting approval of an overpayment for a less than successful result. Those are most often in the settlement of merger class action in which the only benefit for the class was
The attorney for the Plaintiff in Foster Biodevice, LLC v. Cantrell. 2016 NCBC 51 said that he was only making a limited appearance, but the Business Court (through new Business Court Judge Robinson, in his first Opinion for the Court) wasn’t buying the limited nature of the appearance.
Plaintiff’s counsel had previously obtained an
Judge McGuire came down pretty hard on a Florida attorney admitted pro hac vice (meaning “for this one particular occasion”) by another Superior Court Judge, in McCarthy v. Hampton, 2016NCBC 4. He revoked the lawyer’s admission and barred him from practicing law in North Carolina for the next two years.
What had this
In an (unpublished) Order last week in Griggs v. Bittersweet Farms, LLC, Judge McGuire ruled that Plaintiffs’ counsel’s instruction to his client not to answer certain deposition questions was improper. He granted a Motion to Compel responses to the unanswered questions, denied a Motion for Protective Order to excuse the Plaintiffs from having to
There are probably some of you who lie awake at night wondering whether Leagalzoom’s offering of do it yourself lawyering products will be found to be the unauthorized practice of law (UPL) in North Carolina.
For those few of you, that uncertainty will continue. At the end of last week, Judge Gale issued an opinion
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You will all recall the Business Court’s disqualification of a law firm from representing its longtime client, in Kingsdown Inc. v. Hinshaw, 2015 NCBC 27. Now there is a second chapter to the disqualification, which came in an Opinion last week, in Kingsdown Inc. v. Hinshaw, 2015 NCBC 35.
The disqualified law firm