New England Biz Law Update

If you think Regina R. Gerrick is daunted by the prospect of walking into Boston’s largest mechanical construction firm and building up from scratch its one-woman legal department, you don’t know Gerrick. Gerrick grew up on the small Caribbean island ...

Business has always been in Peter R. DeFeo’s blood. While attending Harvard Law School in the late 1980s, DeFeo ran a family airfreight trucking company, so the allure of making a business prosper was never far from his heart. “I ...

Biogen Inc.’s shifting fortunes over the past 18 months have included a restructuring to cut 11 percent of its workforce, an 11 percent revenue increase in 2015, and a constant stream of deals, including acquisitions and licensing arrangements. With the ...

Founded in 1930, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is the world’s largest private, independent nonprofit dedicated to ocean research, exploration and education. This spring marks the beginning of a new era in exploration for WHOI. In April it welcomed the ...

Richard Heller is the first and only general counsel in the history of Legal Sea Foods, the New England institution that has come to set the standard for ocean-fare restaurants across the country. Since joining the company in 2003, Heller, ...

Sometimes there’s a surprise waiting after you’ve climbed the mountain and met all those career goals you set for yourself years ago. It’s in the form of an opportunity that pops up and makes you recognize you’re actually prepared to ...

How is it that one of the nation’s top products liability attorneys would choose to go in-house when he candidly admits that trial work is in his DNA? Boston Scientific Corp.’s Timothy A. Pratt says it was all about the ...

Few lawyers can honestly say they wound up precisely where they wanted to be when they embarked on their legal careers. Gretchen Wagner is one of the fortunate few. In February 2013, Wagner realized a dream when she became vice ...

After serving 22 years as in-house counsel for Brandeis University, Judith R. Sizer recently moved on to her career’s “next act” as senior counsel at Rose, Chinitz & Rose in Boston. New England In-House’s Matt Yas asked Sizer about the ...

If Brenda M. Cotter was looking for a challenge when she took on the role of general counsel at Aereo Inc., she didn’t have to wait long. When the New York-based tech company launched its service in February 2012 allowing ...