New England Biz Law Update

An in-house lawyer at Eastman Chemical Co. is leading the charge to correct a glaring lack of gender diversity among inventors. Michelle Bugbee co-chairs the Women Inventors Subcommittee for the Intellectual Property Owners Association. At its annual meeting in September, ...

Daniel P. Olohan joined the in-house legal team at the Commerce Group in 2006, shortly before the Webster-based company was acquired by global insurance giant MAPFRE Group. The MAPFRE logo may be familiar to people locally through its sponsorship of ...

With a business background, Ethan J. Ceplikas assumed that he would be drawn to the practice of corporate law. Instead, he found himself fascinated by his real estate classes during law school and enjoyed his work in the affordable housing ...

For Damon P. Hart, employment law has always been about the people it impacts. At Liberty Mutual Insurance, he’s responsible for about 45,000 such people across all 50 states and in some 30 countries. That means an almost limitless variety ...

Brian R. Elworthy didn’t need to do a whole lot of soul-searching to know the partner track wasn’t for him. So after six years as an associate at Ropes & Gray, the Boston lawyer set out to find the right ...

Robert A. Kubica freely admits he’s not the next Clarence Darrow. “I’m not who I would hire to be in the courtroom arguing on our behalf,” jokes the senior vice president and assistant general counsel at The Davis Cos. in ...

Meredith L. Ainbinder’s path to working in higher education hasn’t been a straight line, but the Boston lawyer is confident she’s ended up where she belongs. Ainbinder became deputy general counsel at Emerson College in 2016, after stints as a ...

After practicing at law firms for more than a decade, Nancy M. Cremins had what she calls “an existential career crisis.” Then a partner at Gesmer Updegrove, Cremins found herself wondering what she wanted to do over the course of ...

At the age of 6, Todd K. Hanna was already “pounding on a pedestal somewhere and making people listen.” All signs seemed to point to a future in litigation. But then he landed a job doing corporate transactional work after ...

It would be hard to fault anyone for assuming that the legal department of a 110-year-old property and casualty insurance company with a national reach must be a large operation. After all, Amica Mutual Insurance Co. is under the eye ...