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Last month, the North Carolina Court of Appeals issued its opinion in the case of Alexander v. Burkey, 894 S.E.2d 291 (2023).  The Court of Appeals' opinion upheld the ability of...

THE 2022 AMENDMENTS TO THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE (THE “2022 AMENDMENTS”) constitute a sweeping expansion and revision of the UCC. Among other things, the new rules greatly facilitate...

The current issue of The Business Lawyer, a quarterly publication of the ABA’s Business Law Section that rightly bills itself as “the premier business law journal in the country,”...

On March 15, 2022, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022 was signed into law. Division U, the Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act, resolves what had otherwise been a pending...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The FDCPA provides a bona fide error defense for debt collectors who can show by a preponderance of the evidence that their violation was not intentional and resulted from a bona fide error notwithstanding the maintenance of procedures reasonably adapted to avoid any such error.  15 U.S.C. §1692k(c).  Historically, debt collectors have been judicious in its use.  While it is a powerful tool, it shines a bright light on a debt col...