New England Biz Law Update

What impact could an international conference in Iceland have for the legal community in Boston? More than you might think, according to Elizabeth M. Myers, a partner in Verrill Dana’s Boston office. Myers attended the Arctic Circle Assembly 2015 recently ...

  It’s surely no fun getting grilled by lawyers from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. But Carlos R. Garza insists he was positively “frightened” when he was called to testify at the SEC’s regional office in Boston on Aug. ...

As a Burns & Levinson business litigator, Boston’s Michael C. Gilleran never anticipated he would end up in a dispute implicating the foreign policy powers of the United States president. But that’s exactly where he found himself earlier this summer ...

The Supreme Judicial Court has allowed Kamee B. Verdrager’s application for direct appellate review of the summary judgment dismissal of her discrimination suit against Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, Chairman R. Robert Popeo and others. The case will ...

Sony, Target and Home Depot are some of the household names associated with recent high-profile data breaches. But recent statistics strikingly reveal that cybercrime is an equal opportunity threat. The number of records compromised by data breaches grew from 93 ...

Who knew a simple T-shirt could wreck such havoc? Gronk Nation LLC is a charitable corporation run by New England Patriots star tight end Rob Gronkowski and his fellow NFL-playing brothers, Dan and Chris. Sully’s Tees LLC is a Peabody, ...

D’Angelo & Hashem, a law firm that has represented employees in disputes with their employers, and partner Saba B. Hashem found themselves the target of one such lawsuit when former secretary and receptionist Jennifer Carrion sued the North Andover, Massachusetts, ...

Internet entrepreneurs Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have won a motion for summary judgment in a multi-million-dollar Facebook-related lawsuit resulting from a soured collaboration. To reach the decision, Superior Court Judge Thomas P. Billings created a small rift of his own ...

A swanky Nantucket yacht club recently lost its bid to end a lawsuit brought by the club’s former fitness director, who claimed that her dream job ended up becoming a nightmare of sexual harassment and retaliation. Massachusetts Superior Court Judge ...

Anyone who keeps tabs on the Massachusetts Superior Court’s Business Litigation Session in Boston has likely noticed an influx of lawsuits over the past year accusing businesses of improperly collecting ZIP codes from customers paying with credit cards. If that ...