New England Biz Law Update

Just about everyone is familiar with the image of the unpaid intern as the lowly office gofer sent to fetch coffee and do other menial tasks in exchange for nothing more than “experience.” However, when done well, internships give students ...

The Fifth Circuit vacated the Department of Labor’s long-suffering conflict of interest rule (commonly referred to as the “fiduciary rule”), holding that the rule exceeds the scope of DOL’s regulatory authority.  The decision means that the expanded definition of fiduciary, ...

Since the Supreme Court’s decision inAlice Corp. v. CLS Bank in 2014, there has been an increasing trend in district courts granting pretrial dispositive motions to effect early dismissal of patent infringement cases under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Last month, however, ...

Earlier this year, the Department of Justice, Civil Division, issued two policy memos that will directly affect its civil enforcement priorities, particularly with regard to healthcare and life sciences companies. The first memo, issued January 10, 2018, and publicly leaked ...

On February 27, 2018, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 4296, which would reduce the operational capital requirements imposed on financial institutions.  The bill passed with a 245-169 vote.  As could be expected from such deregulatory legislation, only 19 ...

How much do you really worry anymore about a breach of your credit card? If your card is lost or your number is stolen, a thief might make a purchase or two before the fraud is detected and the card ...

It’s the time of year when U.S. employers are preparing for the upcoming H-1B cap petition filing season. While it appeared that USCIS was considering revising the H-1B lottery process for this fiscal year by adding a new online pre-registration step, ...

The budget agreement approved by Congress and signed into law on February 9, 2018, includes several changes to the rules governing hardship distributions from 401(k) plans.  These changes — which were included in the House version of the tax reform ...

New Hampshire continues to have more than its fair share of problems related to opioid addiction. Business owners face challenges  previously unheard of, or at least unmentioned, in this small state. As employers continue to struggle to hire adequate numbers ...

Many successful products on the market today began as embryonic inventions in university research laboratories. Gene splicing, magnetic resonance imaging and atomic microscopy, for example, all had their beginnings in the university setting. Since the passage of the Bayh-Dole Act ...