New England Biz Law Update

A recent survey reveals that corporate counsel aren't happy with the service they're getting from their primary law firms. And they're doing something about it.

Once considered the bedrock of a defendant's rights to effective counsel, the attorney-client privilege is facing increased erosion, a result of the Bush administration's aggressive stance on corporate crime in this post-Enron era. But companies and their attorneys are fighting back.

Lawyers for public companies are anticipating some form of regulatory relief from Sarbanes-Oxley following a report from an advisory committee of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Some in-house counsel are using a novel strategy to handle legal matters: They're turning to plaintiffs' trial lawyers.

Pregnancy bias is a continuing problem for women in the workplace, according to both employment attorneys and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s statistics. The reasons for this are varied. Ernie Haffner, an attorney in the EEOC’s Washington, D.C. Office ...

The fallout from the financial fraud explosion a few years back has been broad and deep, not the least of which is the assault on the attorney-client privilege. Emboldened prosecutors are now routinely seeking a waiver of this fundamental privilege ...

New Associations Brian R. Adams recently joined Genzyme Corp., the Cambridge, Mass.-based biotechnology company, as corporate counsel. He was most recently with Bingham McCutchen in Boston. Alyssa J. Huber recently joined software company Iona Technologies as corporate counsel. Huber was ...

Three years after Sarbanes-Oxley went into effect to regulate publicly traded companies, its complex requirements are making their way into the non-profit sector – and health care lawyers are advising hospitals to pay attention. For non-profit hospitals and their attorneys, ...

A company can be hit with treble damages for filing a frivolous complaint against a former employee based on a noncompete agreement – even where the ex-employee was preparing to form a competing business and was negotiating with a former ...

'Assembly line diagnoses' in silica suits unmasked