The “full consent jurisdiction” issue is becoming of some interest recently. There are a few business court dockets where all parties must consent to the…
Category: Tennessee
“The National Center for State Courts (NCSC) and the Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) have developed an innovative training curriculum and faculty guide…
The ABA Section of Business Law’s Business and Corporate Litigation Committee has just published the 2020 edition of Recent Developments in Business and Corporate Litigation. …
[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…
Tennessee’s Supreme Court appointed Davidson County Chancellor Anne C. Martin to preside over Tennessee’s Business Court Docket Pilot Project. The Business Court is located in Nashville, Davidson…
In 2017, Tennessee’s Twenty-First Judicial District created a Complex Commercial Dispute Docket (CCDD) in the Circuit and Chancery Courts of Williamson County, located in Franklin,…
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…
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…
One objective for many business courts is to publish opinions. This falls in line with the goal of creating rational predictability for the litigation community, as…
Today’s post on Tennessee’s Business Court Docket Pilot Project (Business Court) follows up on using a single county’s business court to serve litigants across the state. In the Tennessee experience,…