New England Biz Law Update

When relationships sour in closely held corporations, disgruntled majority owners typically resort to written employment agreements and stock buy-back arrangements to oust the unwelcome minority.

Intellectual property is one of the most complicated areas of law. Love it or hate it, at some point or another every in-house lawyer is going to be faced with some type of IP dispute.

Tagged with: April 30 2012 issue

The president has signed a bill, overwhelmingly adopted by Congress, awkwardly entitled Jumpstart Our Business Start-ups Act (which, in case you have been living on Mars and have missed it, bears the unfortunate acronym JOBS Act). According to many economists, ...

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Section 274A of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, mandates that employers hire only U.S. citizens and aliens who are authorized to work in the United States. Employers must verify employee identity and eligibility by using the Employment Eligibility ...

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Developing effective witness testimony is a critical component of litigation strategy. Sometimes, however, a party to litigation overlooks the importance of careful and thorough witness preparation in readying for depositions or trial.

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Imagine you are corporate counsel for a national real estate company that owns and operates malls. One of your malls has landed in litigation against a large tenant. The litigation has grinded its way through months of expensive battles and ...

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While laws regulating guns in the workplace are common elsewhere in the United States, they are also becoming a challenge for New England employers, particularly those with multi-state operations.

Tagged with: March 31 2012 issue

You wouldn’t expect securities regulation to be driven by gender-based violence in the middle of Africa — but it is. While compliance officers have been diving deep into Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act, most corporate lawyers have avoided it ...

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It’s a familiar tune. Every election year it seems we hear the chorus of protests from musicians who are not flattered that their music has been hijacked as the theme song of a political candidate. The song is always the ...

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In August 2010, Massachusetts enacted a statute that set in motion two waves of reform in the state’s Criminal Offender Record Information system.

Tagged with: March 31 2012 issue