New England Biz Law Update

A year after renewed diversity demands by general counsel from around the country, more law firms appear to be taking notice, taking stock and taking action.

TelaDoc had a problem. The Dallas start-up company was facing a tremendous number of legal issues in getting its business going – a national network of physicians for telephone consultations in the evenings and on weekends for people who cannot ...

A new wave of defibrillator litigation is starting to attack businesses that have the devices but don't use them - or don't have plans in place to make sure they are used properly in an emergency.

The SEC is about to adopt sweeping changes to the rules on raising capital. The changes are nothing short of dramatic and promise more flexibility in how stocks are offered to the public. We take a look at these major ...

John N. Affuso has joined the legal department of the Massachusetts Port Authority as a senior legal counsel/real estate. Previously, he was counsel for the Economic Development and Industrial Corporation of Boston. Elias Behrakis has joined VoiceSignal Technologies in Woburn, ...

In the decade since the O.J. Simpson trial brought trial consultants to national prominence, their role has continued to expand to the point where the profession is now fending off challenges to its growing influence. Whether it’s concern about their ...

Like deleted e-mail and computer files, old websites never die. Using an online database called the Wayback Machine and archived web pages collected by operations like Google, lawyers are unearthing a wide range of web-based evidence, including websites that no longer exist and old versions of current sites.

Fifteen years after Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act, the first major revisions to the Act’s accessibility guidelines are making their way through the regulatory system and generating plenty of buzz. “I don’t think most people have grasped the ...

With a new justice in the line-up for the first time in 11 years, the U.S. Supreme Court began its new term on Oct. 3. A number of cases could potentially affect companies across the nation. Here’s a look at ...

Computerized billing records may not lead to the fairest, most accurate assessment of the "value" of legal services, according to the author.