New England Biz Law Update

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has set a new deadline for compliance with the Corporate Transparency Act’s beneficial ownership information reporting requirements after a federal judge in Texas lifted the one remaining nationwide injunction blocking enforcement of the statute.

Information is a company’s lifeblood in today’s data-driven world, and data stewards play a crucial role in managing and governing this asset. However, many organizations do not quite grasp the role of the data steward and how it pertains to data governance. An experienced Managed Services Provider can help fill in the blanks.

A Missouri appeals court has ruled that discrimination and retaliation claims survive a plaintiff’s death in a public employee whistleblower case. The court ruled that claims of retaliation or discrimination under the Missouri Human Rights Act and the Public Employee ...

An arbitration provision in a plaintiff’s employment contract should be enforced against him despite his assertion that the defendant employer neither explained the agreement’s contents nor recommended that he consult an attorney, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ...

The thought of writing an employee handbook can be daunting – it is quite often a lot of work and requires an understanding of a wide variety of laws, rules, and regulations. But the work to get a handbook that ...

When commercial landlords negotiate leases with prospective tenants, they understandably focus on key commercial terms, such as rental rate and renewal options. While that focus is justified, landlords should never overlook the “boilerplate” language of the lease, especially the insurance ...

The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) by litigants hasn’t exactly been embraced by courts nationwide. Instead, sensational headlines about hallucinated case citations have led to knee-jerk rejections of the technology by many judges, even when the root cause of ...

The legal battle over the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) continues. In the past few weeks, the courts have reversed their holdings twice about the CTA and corporate Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) filing requirements.  The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

As we begin a new year, what are the newest cybersecurity threats businesses need to be aware of and what steps should they take to protect themselves? We checked in with four cybersecurity professionals to find out. “Cybersecurity is evolving ...

Businesses are following a seesaw battle over the federal Corporate Transparency Act after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a federal district judge’s injunction against enforcement of the law’s registration deadline. U.S. District Court Judge Amos L. Mazzant III ...