New England Biz Law Update

Work performed by contractors is among the most dangerous in the country, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Of the 5,190 fatal work injuries reported in 2021, 951 happened in construction and extraction occupations. Workers file claims because ...

These days there is no shortage of scam calls, phishing e-mails, and bad actors trying to steal what’s yours. They’ve managed to creep into every corner of our business and personal lives – our computers, our phones, our front porches, ...

The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Groff v. DeJoy significantly heightens the standard for determining whether a religious accommodation causes “undue hardship on the conduct of the employer’s business.” Employers should take note of the change and modify policies ...

Plaintiffs are filing suits against AI developers at a quick pace, arguing that AI really creates nothing new but merely reads and copies billions of other peoples’ protected works from the internet. Using these works, and in reaction to a ...

It’s too early to assess the ramifications of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling that a Christian graphic artist who wants to design wedding websites can refuse to work with same-sex couples, according to some legal experts. “The boundaries of ...

Even though a university dean and provost made comments about a professor’s retirement plans, those comments, without more, were not “direct evidence” of age discrimination. The decision is Palmer v. Liberty University. Plaintiff Eva Palmer sued Liberty University, alleging age ...

As a commercial real estate lawyer, I understand that my clients often rely on their financial analysts and their projections, forecasts and assumptions to determine whether to invest in a real estate venture. Whether a lawyer or a nonlawyer, it ...

Where the record showed an employee’s position was eliminated because of a need to downsize and because he scored the lowest of three sales managers on a decision matrix, a federal trial court in Virgnia concluded that his age discrimination ...

An employer’s motion to compel arbitration of a former employee’s discrimination claim should be denied because there is a genuine issue of material fact regarding whether the plaintiff agreed to arbitration, a federal court in Michigan has held. Blue Cross ...

If you ask one of the leading artificial intelligence chatbots, ChatGPT, if you should rely on it to draft a construction contract, it responds that it is “highly recommended to hire a construction attorney rather than relying solely on ChatGPT ...