Joan Archer Leads ABA Expert Witness Committee as Pro Hac Vice Status is Revoked in Supreme Court of North Carolina Matter
8/17/2010
The Supreme Court of North Carolina recently held that a North Carolina trial court properly revoked the pro hac vice status of two attorneys because of prior ex parte contact with an opponent’s expert witness. Whether the attorneys had done anything worthy of this sanction was far from clear. The intermediate Court of Appeals of North Carolina did not think so, and neither did the circuit court in Kentucky where the challenged conduct actually occurred. Read more ...
