This must-attend program takes deep dives into six substantive areas of law, selected because of their increasing impact on complex business litigation and corporate transactions.

Business litigators can expect to hone their skills and better serve their clients by gaining a deeper understanding and top-of-mind awareness of:

• North Carolina's economic loss rule, as applied in recent federal- and state-court decisions;
• Arbitration as an efficient and effective means of resolving complex business disputes;
• Recent trends in state and federal enforcement of antitrust laws and related investigations;
• Methods of effectively valuing business interests and issues that arise in preparing and testing those valuations in litigation and other dispute-resolution contexts;
• Ethical issues that arise in disputes involving small, closely held businesses; and
• The role that receivership plays as a potential remedy in complex business litigation.

The program culminates with a "view from the bench" panel of the North Carolina Business Court Judges. During this presentation, practitioners gain uniquely valuable insights into the Court's perspectives and get an opportunity to have their own questions addressed by the judges.

INCLUDED SESSIONS

• When Contracts Attack: Issues and Trends in North Carolina Economic Loss Rule
• Arbitration: Efficient and Effective Resolution of Complex Business Disputes
• The Evolving Antitrust Landscape from the Enforcers' Perspective
• Business Valuation Issues That Give Judges, Valuators and Lawyers Heartburn
• Closely Held: Ethical Issues That Arise in Small Business Disputes
• The Role of Receivership in Commercial Litigation
• 2020 Business Court Judges Panel Discussion

SPEAKERS

• Catharine Biggs Arrowood, Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, Raleigh
• Chief Judge Louis A. Bledsoe III, North Carolina Business Court, Charlotte
• Kathleen Bradshaw Burchette, Johnston Allison & Hord PA, Charlotte (Moderator)
• Stephen V. Carey, Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, Raleigh
• Sarah Burris Clayton, American Arbitration Association, Charlotte
• Judge Adam M. Conrad, North Carolina Business Court, Charlotte
• Victor J. Domen Jr., Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, Washington, DC
• Senior Business Court Judge James L. Gale, North Carolina Business Court, Greensboro
• George B. Hawkins, Banister Financial Inc., Charlotte
• Corri Hopkins, Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, Raleigh
• Deborah J. Hylton, Hylton ADR Services LLC, Durham
• Catherine R.L. Lawson, Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, Raleigh
• Scottie Forbes Lee, Ellis & Winters LLP, Greensboro
• Judge Gregory P. McGuire, North Carolina Business Court, Raleigh
• Fred B. Monroe, James McElroy & Diehl PA, Charlotte (Moderator)
• Ryan K. Quillian, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC
• Judge Michael L. Robinson, North Carolina Business Court, Winston-Salem
• George F. Sanderson III, The Sanderson Law Firm PLLC, Raleigh
• Gregory L. Skidmore, Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson PA, Charlotte (Moderator)
• Jon Strickland, Elliott Davis LLC, Raleigh

PRODUCED
February 13, 2020

PLANNED BY
NCBA Antitrust & Complex Business Disputes Law Section

• Thomas H. Segars, Ellis & Winters LLP, Raleigh (Planner)

APPROVED CREDIT
North Carolina: 7.25 MCLE/CPE Hours

PROGRAM PRICING
See pricing below. Discounts may be available for NCBA members who are students, law professors, judges or legal services/public interest attorneys. Call CLE at 800.228.3402 for details.