The North Carolina Supreme Court this week established a test for judges asked to order a business divorce of “deadlocked” partners in LLCs.

Criminal and civil matters often mix naturally, but it is especially perilous work to engineer their combined resolution.

The Court confirmed that parents trying to control what a private school teaches are subject to the same contractual rules as everyone else.

Slumlords of North Carolina, this one’s for you. The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled Friday that landlords have no duty under state...

The N.C. Court of Appeals affirmed dismissal of a complaint for insufficient service in part because USPS didn't get a signature.

The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday instituted the equivalent of the Spider-Man rule for North Carolina registered nurses by...

Going first is gambling. That’s why a legal question can linger in plain sight for years before someone decides to test it. The...

Some say you can’t fight City Hall, but that’s not really true. You can, but the battlefield is decided in a courthouse. And judging...

A jury had hit three defendants with $65,000 in compensatory and punitive damages, and now their lawyer was asking a judge not to award...

The Court dismissed a wrongful death action based on rules that give protections to medical providers that no other profession enjoys.

Homeowners across the state may not realize it, but the Court of Appeals just triggered a bomb buried in a North Carolina statute for...

Whether attacks with false information are written or verbal, they could be defamatory.

One way to value the loss of ornamental trees cut from residential property is the cost to replace them.

Third-party home buyer “warranties” for new homes may induce buyers to give up stronger legal rights to correct construction defects.

The risk is that a homeowner fights at the peril of paying both the contractor’s fees and her own. But the threat may be double-edged.

The state Supreme Court ruled in 1932 that no nurse can be liable for medically negligent treatment decisions.

Where good faith disagreement ends and bad faith refusal to settle begins can be a very tricky line to identify.

Just take a moment to marvel at the amounts spent by a well-heeled HOA to hold at bay the evils of artificial turf.

Arbitration agreements require parties to avoid court and take their dispute before a private panel or single arbitrator.

The issue is whether an agent did everything reasonable to meet the standard of care generally exercised by other agents.