Atlanta Weather

Partly cloudy

57° F

Pollen 1

Air quality 41

| Traffic

Home > Gwinnett.talk > Archives > 2007 > December > 24 > Entry

Business beefs get their own courtroom

By Ben Smith | Monday, December 24, 2007, 11:54 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Gwinnett County has launched a temporary “business court” program.

Apparently it’s a trend — businesses around the country are fed up getting stuck in lawsuits for years at a time and running up huge legal bills.

As a result, many locales are creating specialized business courts to help move these kind of civil cases through the system faster.

According to Gwinnett court administrator Phil Boudewyns, the county’s six-month business court pilot project is the first of its kind in Georgia.

“If there is a need for the Business Court in Gwinnett, we hope the pilot project will let us know that,” Boudewyns said.

During the project, any case that gets sent to the business court must be approved by the judge presiding over it.

State Court Judge Randy Rich will head up the project.

Permalink | Comments (0) | Post your comment | Categories: Gwinnett Insider

Comments

Commenting is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. M-F

Post a comment



Remember me?

You may use the following formatting:
Bold: **this text will be bolded** = this text will be bolded
Italic: *this text will be italic* = this text will be italic
Link: [text to be linked](http://www.ajc.com) = text to be linked



There will be a delay of up to 5 minutes before your comment appears.


*HTML not allowed in comments. Your e-mail address is required.

 

Do Good Locally » Find nonprofit causes near you

Find more causes » List your nonprofit

Kudzu Services » Find the right people for the job