New England Biz Law Update

Publicly traded companies and their subsidiaries and affiliates would be well-advised to start preparing now for the wave of Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower claims that is currently sweeping the nation.

Tagged with: July 2011 issue

A temporary employment agency could not enforce a confidentiality provision barring workers from disclosing the terms of their employment to “other parties,” the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has decided.

Tagged with: July 2011 issue

By Christina Pazzanese and Thomas E. Egan The parties to a municipal collective bargaining agreement could not include an “evergreen” clause purporting to continue the terms of the CBA during the period of negotiations for a successor agreement, the Massachusetts Supreme ...

Tagged with: Nov. 2010 issue

Labor and employment lawyers’ jobs got a little trickier after the U.S. Supreme Court decided that nearly 600 rulings from the National Labor Relations Board were handed down while the board lacked the authority to act. “It kind of makes ...

The advice a corporate lawyer gave to only one of two doctors who co-owned a health center was protected by the attorney-client privilege, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge has ruled. The defendant doctor, who was sued by his partner in ...

When the U.S. Supreme Court took up the case City of Ontario v. Quon, the legal world braced for the justices to rule on whether employees have a privacy interest in the messages they send on employer-issued mobile devices. But ...

When the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed federal fraud charges against the powerful New York hedge fund Galleon Management and its billionaire owner, officials seized the opportunity to issue a warning to those working in the industry. “Today, tomorrow, ...

Could affect hundreds of employment cases

Honoring a select group of in-house counsel for their accomplishments

Medical device-maker Boston Scientific will pay $22 million to resolve allegations its Guidant division paid kickbacks to doctors to get them to use its heart devices. The U.S. Department of Justice said Guidant paid physicians $1,000 to $1,500 each in ...