New England Biz Law Update

The business judgment rule did not shield a company board’s vote not to pursue a derivative suit demanded by a shareholder as there was evidence that the vote was not taken in good faith, a judge in the Business Litigation ...

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In the absence of discriminatory or retaliatory motivation on the employer’s part, an at-will employee who resigns due to the non-payment of wages is not entitled to assert a claim of constructive discharge, a Superior Court judge in Massachusetts has ...

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Given that 143 million Americans were reportedly affected, odds are good that you or at least someone you know was impacted by the data breach of the credit reporting agency Equifax, which was reported several weeks after the company learned about it. ...

The Massachusetts Appeals Court has found that lawyers for a limited liability company could be sued for breaching a fiduciary duty to the LLC’s minority members despite the lack of an attorney-client relationship. Counsel for the LLC were accused of ...

If your employer came to you and asked whether you wanted to have a microchip the size of a grain of rice implanted under your skin to help you access your building or pay for items at the lunch counter ...

Whether an acquiring company will be able to enforce an employee non-compete agreement entered into by its predecessor will have everything to do with how its acquisition is structured, a pair of recent decisions by a judge in the Massachusetts ...

If you think Regina R. Gerrick is daunted by the prospect of walking into Boston’s largest mechanical construction firm and building up from scratch its one-woman legal department, you don’t know Gerrick. Gerrick grew up on the small Caribbean island ...

A federal court decision related to claims brought under the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 indicates that it will be difficult to end litigation in its early stages using the act’s whistleblower provision, attorneys say. The case involved an ...

If you shared with friends and family around your Thanksgiving table reasons to be grateful this year, here’s one you probably left out: the fact that you aren’t a management-side employment attorney. If you are such a lawyer, you would ...

While there hasn’t exactly been a stampede to online exchanges, “equity crowdfunding” — a means of raising capital from throngs of non-accredited investors, many of modest means — is off to a somewhat promising start, according to local attorneys who ...