Friends don’t let friends do business with friends.
Among the key Business Court takeaways here at the blog, this maxim rings loud and clear. So, when decade-long friends Jared Londry and Daniel Farrar went into the real...more
8/1/2025
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Business Litigation ,
Business Ownership ,
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Contract Disputes ,
Economic Loss Doctrine ,
Employment Contract ,
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Limited Partnerships ,
Misrepresentation ,
Partnership Agreements ,
Summary Judgment ,
Tortious Interference
Wolfspeed, a Durham-based silicon carbide semiconductor business, has plenty on its plate these days amid media reports of an impending bankruptcy reorganization. While such a filing would be aimed at a short(ish) judicial...more
6/2/2025
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Employee Rights ,
Employment Contract ,
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Fiduciary Duty ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
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Tortious Interference ,
Trade Secrets
A Durham County class action asks whether “My Chart,” a widely used portal that medical providers use to communicate with patients about test results, conditions, and treatments should more aptly be labeled “Our Chart.”...more
4/25/2025
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Business Litigation ,
Class Action ,
Damages ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Health Care Providers ,
Hospitals ,
Negligence ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
Personal Information ,
PHI ,
State Privacy Laws
That’s what a patron of Northlake Mall and Northlake Commons reportedly asked in an online forum about safety concerns at these Mecklenburg County shopping venues. The plaintiff in Brown v. TM Northlake Mall, LP, 2025 NCBC...more
Ace Hardware was long advertised as “the place with the helpful hardware man,” but even well-stocked aisles of tools and DIY accessories have their limitations. In Pro-Tops, Inc. v. Yuriy Maksimenko, 2025 NCBC 4, it turned...more
Matthew Bagley worked for a claims adjustment firm in Louisiana as its claims manager for nearly three years before resigning to, allegedly, improperly compete against his former employer, M.D. Claims Group. In M.D. Claims...more
2/14/2025
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Breach of Duty ,
Business Entities ,
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Litigation Strategies
“[T]ime waits for no one,” sage Rolling Stones advice from 1974, doesn’t appear in Black’s Law Dictionary or result in frequent opinion cites for Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, the keen legal observers who wrote it. But it...more
“You are remembered for the rules you break.” Gen. Douglas MacArthur- First, this is certainly true. Second, when it comes to the exacting nature of the rules for getting a case properly before the North Carolina Business...more
Be careful what you wish for, lest it come true.
– drawn from The Old Man and Death, Aesop-
In Brewer v. Grue, 2020 NCBC 59, Judge Conrad offers a helpful update to convert that traditional morality tale to the rough...more
It’s not often that the rote listing of involved attorneys at the outset of a Business Court opinion gives much of a clue of what issues lie ahead. A curious exception is when the same party is listed as represented by...more