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.
But last week, looking at the Order approving a class action settlement and a fee petition in Elliott v. KB Home North Carolina, Inc., 2017 NCBC
Continue Reading These Class Action Lawyers Made Their Fees The Old-Fashioned Way. They Earned Them!
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In an (unpublished) 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 
The Business Court on Wednesday disqualified a law firm from representing its longtime corporate client in a lawsuit against the corporation’s former CEO and Chairman of its Board of Directors.
It’s probably never a good idea to proceed without a lawyer in any Court, but if you are a non-lawyer and insist on proceeding pro se in the Business Court, don’t be defiant and obnoxious. You will not like the result.
Be sure that an LLC member has the authority to hire you before accepting the representation of the LLC in a suit by or against another LLC member. That authorization generally requires a majority of the interest of the members, at least under the default provisions of the LLC Act, which apply in the absence of an Operating Agreement providing to the contrary.
United States District Court Judge Catherine Eagles of the Middle District of North Carolina delivered an admonition last week to all of the lawyers with cases in her Court.