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 debtor” of Southeastern Eye Center, in his court filings. McDaniel, not a physician (nor a lawyer), is the former Executive Director of the Center. He is proceeding pro se.
Judge Bledsoe laid out a
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Judge Robinson boldly went where no North Carolina Judge writing published Opinions had gone before last month in the case of Wheeler v. Wheeler, 
I have been complaining about the fees approved by the NC Business Court for those lawyers obtaining disclosure only settlements 
The title of Judge Bledsoe’s Opinion in 
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 extraction of additional disclosures in a proxy statement.
The attorney for the Plaintiff in 
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 
In an (unpublished) 
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..jpg)
You will