New England Biz Law Update

More and more, midsize law firms are finding themselves to be the better option for corporate clients that increasingly are questioning the value of paying big-firm rates for the handling of run-of-the-mill legal matters. That conclusion is borne out in ...

A federal judge has determined that the assets of a limited liability company closely related to a construction business in Chapter 7 bankruptcy could be reached to satisfy the claims of the creditors of the bankruptcy estate. The decision resolves ...

Business has always been in Peter R. DeFeo’s blood. While attending Harvard Law School in the late 1980s, DeFeo ran a family airfreight trucking company, so the allure of making a business prosper was never far from his heart. “I ...

A Hong Kong investment analyst pleaded fraud with sufficient particularity to proceed with an intentional misrepresentation claim against a Massachusetts company that rescinded a job offer shortly after he left the employment he had, a U.S. District Court judge has ...

Consumer protection attorneys are lauding a proposed federal rule that would effectively ban class action waivers in arbitration clauses included in new contracts for financial services. At the same time they are bracing for a wave of legal challenges by ...

Law firms that think they are adequately covered for cybersecurity risks may want to think again. A firm’s insurer may have slipped an exclusion for data breaches into the general liability policy the firm has been renewing year after year. ...

Lawyers investigating whether an out-of-state defendant’s operation of a website provides a basis for suing the party in local federal court will find few bright-line rules coming from decisions issued in the 1st Circuit. A survey of recent opinions by ...

Management-side lawyers claim the new federal rules bolstering disclosure requirements for third parties that advise employers in opposing union-organizing campaigns impermissibly interfere with the attorney-client relationship. The U.S. Department of Labor last month announced long-awaited amendments to its so-called “persuader ...

The co-founder of an investment management company, who is the subject of a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit, is not entitled to the corporation’s attorney-client communica­tions even though he claims they are necessary for his ad­vice-of-counsel defense, a U.S. District ...

A bank manager’s unauthorized review and use of privileged emails detailing his former employer’s litigation strategy warranted the dismissal of his lawsuit over breach of his employment contract, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled. The plaintiff, John C. Ponte, ...