December 28, 2020
Comments Off on Reservation of rights letter doesn’t create conflict
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a South Carolina judge’s ruling that found no conflict of interest with either an insurer’s reservation of rights letter to an insured or the actions of the attorney provided to the ...
Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals South Carolina Supreme Court
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December 7, 2020
Comments Off on Hog farm dispute settles after 4th Circuit’s split decision
The neighbors of a North Carolina hog farm have reportedly reached a deal with the company that owns the farm after the 4th U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a jury verdict holding the owners liable for compensatory and punitive damages ...
Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephanie D. Thacker Nuisance law
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June 1, 2020
Comments Off on 4th Circuit allows evidence for foreign arbitration
Teeing up a circuit split, a panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a party to private arbitration in the United Kingdom can obtain testimony from residents of South Carolina for use in the arbitration. ...
Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Arbitration Judge Paul V. Niemeyer
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The third year of law school typically entails late nights of studying, trying to get any and all papers complete on time and the rising terror of the approaching bar exam. Not typically on the agenda: the Miss USA pageant. ...
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Electronic discovery strikes fear in the hearts of many attorneys. Unfamiliar with the terminology and hesitant about technology in general, lawyers have struggled with the tidal wave of electronically stored information, or ESI, hitting the courtroom. “The biggest mistake lawyers ...
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Taxes remain one of the certainties in life but a new interpretation by the Internal Revenue Service could have clients – and lawyers – paying even more if they aren’t careful. For years, taxpayers have had the luxury of conducting ...
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As the expression goes, “the clothes make the man.” Apparently, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission agrees, recently issuing new guidance on employee rights with regard to religious garb and grooming. Claims of religious discrimination in violation of Title VII have ...
Tagged with: Employment Discrimination
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Technology and the lessons learned in the wake of the recent recession have conspired to change the model of law firm staffing. Traditionally, every lawyer at a firm had his own secretary and often a paralegal as well. Today, only ...
Tagged with: Law Office Management
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A medical malpractice lawsuit filed with the wrong case style has resulted in a $4 million legal malpractice verdict in Richmond Circuit Court. In the underlying med-mal case, the lawyers for an injured teen named her parents as plaintiffs, not ...
Tagged with: Judge Melvin R. Hughes Jr. Legal Malpractice Medical Malpractice Richmond Circuit Court
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Years of litigation, an unpaid loan and fraud on the court all added up to more than $11 million awarded by a Gloucester County Circuit judge on a summary judgment motion. The case dates back to 2005, when Meadow Financial ...
Tagged with: Gloucester County Circuit Court Judge Thomas B. Hoover Million-Dollar Verdicts
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