New England Biz Law Update

A worker at a high-tech startup who sued the company for misclassifying him as an independent contractor was entitled to have the company’s counterclaims for tortious interference and bad faith dismissed under the anti-SLAPP statute, a Superior Court judge in ...

Those who followed the recent high-profile battle between Steward Health Care and The Boston Globe may have been left with the impression that Steward suffered resounding defeat in the Suffolk Superior Court case. The Globe and its affiliate, Boston.com, characterized ...

By her own admission, Lisa Borges had zero nonprofit experience and knew next to nothing about autism. So how did she land a job as executive director of the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism? “I honestly think it was ...

A flurry of patent and other intellectual property decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court is keeping one of New England’s most vibrant practice areas on its toes. “It’s terrific,” said Brian T. Moriarty of Hamilton, Smith, Brook & Reynolds in ...

As a June 3 trial date approached, Ropes & Gray and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory had tried – and failed – in attempts to both settle and mediate the legal malpractice case that the New York research institution filed against ...

Volatility in the world of shareholder class actions has stoked a debate over whether the lawyers who bring such cases are laudable public watchdogs or stick-up artists. The number of federal securities class actions rose by 14 to 166 in ...

Massachusetts businesses are on pace to report a record number of data breaches in 2014. The revelation can be added to a litany of recent jarring developments that Bay State lawyers say have their clients taking privacy and data security ...

Anyone who keeps tabs on the Massachusetts Superior Court’s Business Litigation Session in Boston has likely noticed an influx of lawsuits over the past year accusing businesses of improperly collecting ZIP codes from customers paying with credit cards. If that ...

Law firms that don’t ensure diversity within their ranks will lose out on opportunities to be hired by large organizations and young general counsels. That was one of the major takeaways at the annual meeting of Meritas — a referral ...

With 78 deals totaling $11.3 billion, merger and acquisition activity in New England bounced back strongly in the first quarter of this year. According to Mergermarket, the region hasn’t seen a quarter with that level of activity since the second ...