By Shana Fulton Dear Colleagues, Welcome to the 2024-25 NCBA year! My name is Shana Fulton, and it is my privilege to serve as the Chair of the Antitrust & Complex Business Disputes Law Section for this year. Our section has a busy year planned. Please be on the lookout for networking opportunities including opportunities […]
By Greg Skidmore The Antitrust & Complex Business Disputes Law Section invites you to register for its annual program on February 2, 2023. The program contains 7.0 hours of CLE credit, including 1.0 hour of credit for both ethics and substance abuse/mental health. The topics are tailored toward the active and aspiring business litigator, including navigating complex […]
By John P. Marshall Dear Colleagues, Welcome, albeit a bit late, to the 2022-2023 NCBA year! It is my privilege to serve as your chair for the bar year. Our section has a busy year planned. With COVID-19 now becoming a manageable and distant memory, be on the lookout for more networking opportunities that will […]
By Kyle Medin In last fall’s television sensation Squid Game, unwilling participants in a gruesome game show compete in a series of deceptively simple challenges where one wrong move can have lethal consequences. The penultimate challenge is to cross a bridge made up of pairs of glass panes. In each pair, one pane is tempered […]
By John P. Marshall The Antitrust & Complex Business Disputes Law Section invites you to register for its annual program on February 3, 2022. The program promises a full agenda and plenty of CLE credit through timely presentations designed for the active and aspiring business litigator. We will also have the very popular View From […]
This article was originally published in DRI’s The Voice and has been republished with permission. By Michelle Liguori and Carson Lane Until recently, litigators on both sides of the “v.” routinely included incentive awards in class-action settlements. The Eleventh Circuit’s recent decision in Johnson v. NPAS Solutions, LLC, 975 F.3d 1244 (11th Cir. 2020), shook […]
By John P. Marshall Effective Oct. 1, 2020, House Bill 679 became law, amending Rule 5 of the North Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure. The changes are outlined below: 1. Service is now proper on a party’s attorney of record via electronic mail to an email address of record with the court in the case. […]
By Matthew W. Sawchak For years, courts have struggled to decide how federal antitrust law applies to regulatory decisions by state agencies. SmileDirectClub v. Battle, a case pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, should offer some answers. SmileDirect is likely to clarify what counts as active supervision that can immunize a state agency […]
By Jenna Fruechtenicht Butler As I look out the window from my home office, the waters on Masonboro Sound are soothingly calm. There is no hint of the worldwide pandemic raging around us, but then I think back to the email I received last Friday from the wife of a client I had last seen […]
By Michele Livingstone and Will Quick We are in unprecedented times with COVID-19 (Coronavirus). It is now more important than ever that we help our neighbors and those who are not as fortunate. I am confident that each of you is doing your part. Even in the best of times, however, over 1.5 Million North […]