New England Biz Law Update

Predictable intellectual property protection is essential for high technology businesses. A business charts its course based on estimates of future opportunities, and the ability to predict what technology advantages can be protected with IP is often an essential navigational tool. ...

Pursuing summary judgment in contract cases may not be a good bargain, according to the author.

Every company’s hiring objective is to find the best-qualified candidate, and often that candidate will be a foreign national who requires visa sponsorship. Whether your company is a start-up with a handful of employees or a long-established firm employing hundreds ...

Learning to Say No

It is a fact of life that in-house counsel for large, medium and even smaller companies in the United States must do business abroad. The website of the Association for Corporate Counsel identifies a number of legal issues encountered by ...

Road Show: Chapter Holding Seminars Throughout New England

Some 25 years ago, seven in-house lawyers began to meet informally over lunch to discuss issues in common to their in-house practices. The New England Corporate Counsel Association (NECCA) was created as a result, and from its modest beginnings, NECCA ...

As domestic companies hire waves of workers who don't speak English or only as a second language, workplace conflicts and consequent complaints about discrimination have dramatically increased.

Making outside counsel submit budgets at the outset of handling a matter is gaining traction around the country. Those that have been through the process share their insights.

It appears that 2006 is shaping up to be the year of patent reform. While Congress considers sweeping patent reform laws, the U.S. Supreme Court has decided to weigh in on a number of patent questions, including whether injunctions against patent infringers should be automatically granted.