New England Biz Law Update

The tools you currently have in place in your law firm may not be sufficient in today’s fast-paced world. Technology is moving faster than ever, and artificial intelligence is changing how legal work gets done.

The legal community is quickly adopting artificial intelligence. According to The State of AI in Legal, a Litify 2025 report, the adoption rate of AI among the legal community increased to 78% in the past two years.

COVID did something to us that a decade of wellness programs never could. It forced us to look directly at our own mortality and ask: is this how I want to spend my time?

Many employers have long-standing policies stating that an employee taking protected leave must exhaust all accrued paid time off before taking the leave as unpaid.

In the current economic landscape, ensuring healthy and predictable cash flow is a major priority for entrepreneurs.

In 2024, the Federal Trade Commission promulgated a nationwide rule banning most non-competition agreements. After more than a year of litigation holding up enforcement of the FTC’s rule, the Trump administration announced last year that it would dismiss its attempts to overturn the injunctions that ban the enforcement of the rule.

There is a common misconception in the business world that bringing in an outside consultant is a sign of internal weakness or an admission that leadership has failed.

A Lex Machina report found over 16% of federal employment lawsuits in 2025 were filed by pro se plaintiffs, up from under 10% in 2021.

About half of CEOs report significant time savings from AI. Workers using the same tools? Two-thirds reported minimal or no time savings.

A federal judge has ruled that an ERISA class action can proceed alleging that administrators of a 401(k) plan breached their fiduciary duties by putting forfeited matching contributions toward reducing the employer’s matching obligations rather than toward defraying administrative expenses.