New England Biz Law Update

The test for determining whether a meal break is compensable under the Massachusetts Wage Act should be whether an employee was relieved of all duties during the break, a judge from the Superior Court’s Business Litigation Session has ruled. Plaintiff ...

As a Burns & Levinson business litigator, Boston’s Michael C. Gilleran never anticipated he would end up in a dispute implicating the foreign policy powers of the United States president. But that’s exactly where he found himself earlier this summer ...

After gaining momentum in recent years during the administration of former Gov. Deval L. Patrick, noncompete reform in Massachusetts appears to have been back-burnered. With an advocate in the Corner Office — Patrick went as far as to support a ...

The Supreme Judicial Court has allowed Kamee B. Verdrager’s application for direct appellate review of the summary judgment dismissal of her discrimination suit against Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, Chairman R. Robert Popeo and others. The case will ...

Sony, Target and Home Depot are some of the household names associated with recent high-profile data breaches. But recent statistics strikingly reveal that cybercrime is an equal opportunity threat. The number of records compromised by data breaches grew from 93 ...

An MCAD hearing officer has found that Boston College unlawfully retaliated against one of its professors by refusing to reintegrate the faculty member into the school’s chemistry department following his mental-health-related medical leave. The complainant, William F. Armstrong, had sent ...

Who knew a simple T-shirt could wreck such havoc? Gronk Nation LLC is a charitable corporation run by New England Patriots star tight end Rob Gronkowski and his fellow NFL-playing brothers, Dan and Chris. Sully’s Tees LLC is a Peabody, ...

D’Angelo & Hashem, a law firm that has represented employees in disputes with their employers, and partner Saba B. Hashem found themselves the target of one such lawsuit when former secretary and receptionist Jennifer Carrion sued the North Andover, Massachusetts, ...

Internet entrepreneurs Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have won a motion for summary judgment in a multi-million-dollar Facebook-related lawsuit resulting from a soured collaboration. To reach the decision, Superior Court Judge Thomas P. Billings created a small rift of his own ...

A defendant corporation that actively litigated its former CEO’s lawsuit for six months could not then compel arbitration after its motion to dismiss was denied in part, a Superior Court judge in Massachusetts has found. The defendant, Arctic Sand Technologies ...