New England Biz Law Update

Corporate tweeters or bloggers — employees who post promotional and often entertaining commentary on behalf of their employers’ businesses — add much of their own personal brand — their voice, their opinions, their snarky remarks — to the information they ...

Tagged with: April 30 2013 issue

While there appears to be real momentum to pass a comprehensive bill to reform the nation’s immigration system, employers should also be aware of some smaller-scale developments and proposed changes in immigration law. 

Tagged with: April 30 2013 issue

For chief financial officers of many public companies, compensation disclosures have become a major headache in planning the annual meeting and related annual SEC filings. What once was a technical but stable set of disclosure rules has now become a ...

Tagged with: April 30 2013 issue

Over the last five years, average tenure of a CEO (based on a survey of public and private companies) shrank from 7.3 years to 4.4 years. Focus on CEO succession is becoming more important to boards. Half the members of ...

Tagged with: April 30 2013 issue

Last November, the U.S. Supreme Court justices spent the morning listening to two important class action cases that may offer the opportunity for the court to impose stricter standards for the certification of class actions.

Tagged with: February 28 2013 issue

The National Labor Relations Board recently ruled that an employer committed an unfair labor practice — or ULP — by failing to respond “in a reasonably timely manner” to a union information request concerning bargaining-unit employees, even though the information ...

Tagged with: February 28 2013 issue

What should director minutes say and how detailed should they be? It likely depends on the maturity of the company, the personality of its management, and the input of its lawyers.

Tagged with: February 28 2013 issue

The 47th Super Bowl is now behind us, and — alas — the Baltimore Ravens took home the coveted Vince Lombardi Trophy. As much as that reality may sting here in Patriots Nation, there can be only one Super Bowl ...

Tagged with: February 28 2013 issue

When Henry David Thoreau wrote that “the process of discovery is simple,” he surely did not have litigation in mind. And even if he did, that was in 1849.

Tagged with: Dec. 31 2012 issue

Trade secret theft has always been a risk to U.S. businesses. Now, as the global economy evolves, that risk is changing.

Tagged with: Dec. 31 2012 issue