The North Carolina Business Court is seeking qualified candidates interested in serving both the Winston-Salem and Greensboro Business Court locations as a shared Judicial Research Assistant (Law Clerk) responsible for evaluating, administering, and managing cases involving commercial matters that are designated and assigned to the Court. This is a regular, full-time […]
For St. Patrick’s Day, my kids always make elaborate leprechaun traps to try and catch the leprechaun. If they catch him, they get to keep his pot of gold from the end of the rainbow. Each year the traps get more elaborate, but each year we fail to catch the […]
It’s not every day that our state’s highest court gets an opportunity to weigh in on the scope of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 75-1.1. Last month, the North Carolina Supreme Court issued an important opinion on two familiar exemptions to liability under the statute: the securities exemption and the internal-business-disputes exemption. […]
Rights to insurance proceeds can be—and frequently are—assigned. For example, one business might acquire an insured’s right to insurance proceeds as part of a larger asset acquisition. Or an unpaid contractor who repaired damage to a home after a hurricane might take an assignment of the insured’s rights to collect […]
