North Carolina’s Administrative Office of the Courts has issued its required annual report on North Carolina’s Business Court for 2018 (the Report). A copy can…
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…
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…
In 2017, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court established the Commercial Docket Pilot Project in the Waukesha County Circuit Court (within the Third Judicial District, bordering Milwaukee County),…
This case involves a financial institution bond issued to a brokerage firm. Judge Nina Wright Padilla’s opinion in Janney Montgomery Scott, LLC (the Firm) v.…
New York Chief Judge Janet DiFiore recently gave her review of “The State of Our Judiciary 2019” for all of New York’s courts. A copy can be found here. In…
Judge Christine A. Ward is a long-sitting business court judge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and President of the American College of Business Court Judges. Judge Ward…
On March 8, 2019, identical bills were filed in the Texas House (HB No. 4149) and Senate (SB No. 2259) to create statewide trial level…
This case involves a legal malpractice suit, allegedly rooted in the defendants’ conflict of interest. The complaint alleges that at a time when the defendant…
On March 5, 2019, Georgia’s House of Representatives passed House Bill 239. The bill aims at establishing the Georgia Business Court, and follows in the…