Tara Muller
Oral argument scheduled in hospital-physician “unfair trade” case
Heads up, North Carolina hospitals and doctors! On Wednesday, September 30, the North Carolina Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Hamlet v. Hernandez.…
Court of Appeals Again Dismisses Appeal for Procedural Error
Civil litigators handling appeals: Beware. For the second time in less than a month, the North Carolina Court of Appeals dismissed an entire appeal due to an…
Appeal Dismissed for Procedural Errors
Unlike the workers’ compensation rules, the appellate rules require service by regular mail unless the document is filed through the appellate court’s…
Employment Litigators as Peacemakers
Employment litigators see a broad range of legal disputes, from sexual harassment to discrimination to breach of contract. They valiantly fight for their…
Forget To Identify an Issue? No Problem!
Question: When a brief writer is drafting Contentions or a Full Commission brief and identifies a compelling argument about an issue which was never raised,…
A Win For Arbitration In 2018
In the world of public opinion, alternative dispute resolution still struggles to compete with its crusty cousin – the traditional, costly, and lengthy…
Texas, Delaware or Good Ole North Carolina?
In a much-anticipated ruling on May 22, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court in TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods narrowed the definition of venue for patent infringement…