New England Biz Law Update

The new prescription drug labeling rule from the Food and Drug Administration asserts that if a label meets the agency’s requirements, state law failure-to-warn suits over the drug’s risks are preempted. And experts predict courts are likely to defer to ...

The New England Legal Foundation is seeking a new president and CEO following the departure of its current leader, Andrew R. Grainger, who was recently tapped to join the Massachusetts Appeals Court. NELF – a business law think tank dedicated ...

The proposal to dramatically increase public disclosure of executive compensation seems to have a moral component meant to "shame" corporate America, according to the author.

In the view of some, nanotechnology is expected to become the transformational technology of the 21st century. This technology focuses on controlling matter at the scale of one billionth of a meter (approximately 100,000th the width of a human hair) ...

Dartmouth GC Talks About His Ever Evolving Higher Education Practice

The proper care and feeding of your law firm can make the difference between getting treated like a Las Vegas VIP or low-level commodity work. The difference is between getting excellent service and value, and, well, not getting them. It ...

Properly marking products with patent numbers maximizes the value of patents and helps to enforce those rights.

The Supreme Court recently held that an employer must pay its employees for time spent walking to and from the employer’s locker room to production areas after putting on required protective gear and also for time spent waiting to remove ...

You just received a telephone call from the HR director about a recent hire, a high-level sales manager from your direct competitor, Widgets, Inc. The director says that the manager, Tom Takealot, contacted your company on his own, that the ...

Nobody wants to pay income taxes on compensation they have not yet received. But many executives who are entitled to receive deferred compensation from their employers may soon have to do just that. The problem was created by new Section ...