Fostering certainty and predictability in NC’s legal system
A competitive legal climate is an increasingly important factor in business investment, site selection, and long-term economic growth.
While North Carolina has historically maintained a strong legal climate, recent rankings and legal trends have highlighted growing concerns around predictability, liability exposure, and litigation risk.
The NC Chamber’s Legislative Agenda includes a dedicated Legal Agenda focused on strengthening legal predictability, improving transparency, addressing emerging litigation risks, and supporting a balanced civil justice environment that reinforces North Carolina’s economic competitiveness. Learn more.
Protecting Transparency and Predictability
Topping the Legal Agenda is the NC Chamber’s effort to prohibit third party litigation investment, a practice in which an external investor, separate from the plaintiff and defendant, provides financial support to one of the parties involved in a legal dispute in exchange for a share of the potential settlement or judgment.
Third-party litigation investment can increase legal costs, create additional uncertainty for employers, and introduce outside financial interests into North Carolina’s legal system. The NC Chamber supports legislation that will prohibit third party litigation investment. Learn more.
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NC Chamber Legal Institute
As the North Carolina business community’s organized voice for legal policy development and analysis, the NC Chamber Legal Institute is charged with developing legal strategies to protect our job creators from threats originating within the court system.
The CLI ensures the business communirt has a strong voice speaking up for their interests on these and other issues:
- Attacks on statutory non-economic damage limits
- Efforts to unravel workers’ compensation reforms
- Pursuit of nuisance litigation and right-to-farm challenges
- Attempts to use environmental statutes to achieve anti-business policy
- Attacks on privacy and data security protections in the courts
- Efforts to use financing and third-party financing to oppose business interests
- Coordinated efforts to undo consensus policy outcomes achieved elsewhere
- Attempts to invalidate arbitration clause enforceability
Learn more about the NC Chamber Legal Institute
The Agenda
- Learn how the NC Chamber championed issues for North Carolina’s businesses in the latest edition of How They Voted.
- View our Legislative Agenda to learn how the NC Chamber is advancing policies that strengthen legal predictability, improve transparency, and reinforce North Carolina’s long-term economic competitiveness.
Join the Effort
Help drive the NC Chamber’s efforts to protect North Carolina’s legal climate and keep our state #1 for business. Add your voice to our growing NC Chamber member family today.