[This is an update of our Saturday, March 14, 2020, post concerning the Covid-19 virus and court appearances by lawyers in non-trial matters.] Some of…
Category: Georgia
Some of the risk the Covid-19 virus poses to litigators, judges, and court personnel can be remedied with non-medical technology. Putting aside the more complicated…
Douglas Toering and Ian Williamson have written an article, Business Courts in Michigan: Seven Years and Counting, on the current status of Michigan’s business courts.…
The New York Commercial Division Advisory Council has proposed a new rule on videoconferencing, and facilitating remote appearances at court conferences and oral arguments. Attached…
Atlanta attorney Walter W. Davis has been unanimously confirmed by Georgia’s Senate and House Judiciary Committees to become Georgia’s first Statewide Business Court judge. Davis…
Atlanta attorney Walter W. Davis has been nominated to become Georgia’s first statewide Business Court judge. As reported previously on the Business Courts Blog, in…
As of May 2019, 23 states currently have operational business courts within their borders. Though not yet open for business, Wyoming’s new Chancery Court is to…
Here is a link to a very interesting paper, International Commercial Courts in the Litigation Market. This article observes the development of international commercial courts…
On May 7, 2019, Georgia’s Governor signed State-wide Business Court legislation into law. We have previously posted on the original bill, and the final version…
On April 2, 2019, Georgia’s Legislature passed a statute creating the “State-wide Business Court.” As the name makes clear, under this statute the Business Court’s jurisdiction reaches…