New England Biz Law Update
Reebok CEO Paul Fireman and lawyers from Boston’s Goulston & Storrs used to enter the courtroom side by side. Those days appear to be over.
Tagged with: March 31 2012 issue
Read More »Piper and prejudice
An ex-DLA Piper secretary has abruptly pulled the plug on a sexual harassment complaint she lodged against the Boston law firm and a former supervisor.
Tagged with: March 31 2012 issue
Read More »Company sues ex-employee who lost flash drive
A former employee who worked in the risk management and internal audit department at a data management company may have become a security risk herself after she reported losing a USB flash drive containing thousands of sensitive documents.
Tagged with: Feb. 29 2012 issue
Read More »Private equity co. uses bankruptcy to keep Friendly’s afloat
A Florida-based private equity firm that bought the iconic Friendly’s restaurant chain in 2007 and managed it straight into Chapter 11 bankruptcy by 2011 used a common industry practice to buy back the assets of the business for a bargain ...
Tagged with: Feb. 29 2012 issue
Read More »Ropes & Gray loses bid to dismiss legal malpractice claim
One of New England’s largest law firms has suffered a significant, and potentially costly, defeat at the hands of a federal judge.
Tagged with: Feb. 29 2012 issue
Read More »$5M malpractice suit vs. Choate Hall heads to BLS
Click here to view a follow-up story, “Vindication for (H)all,” from the November 2012 issue of New England In-House. The law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart is accustomed to putting up a good fight from the counsel table in Boston’s ...
Tagged with: Jan. 30 2012 issue
Read More »DLA Piper asks judge to dismiss secretary’s lawsuit
Update: The plaintiff in this case subsequently stipulated to a voluntary dismissal, with prejudice. She stated that she had learned during discovery that the facts were different from what she initially believed, and therefore she disavowed all claims and recitations ...
Tagged with: Jan. 30 2012 issue
Read More »A swing at infringement
Copyright infringement cases targeting the hosts of websites are notoriously hard to win. But a Boston law firm recently convinced a South Carolina jury that a search engine optimization firm should pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages after ...
Tagged with: Nov. 30 2011 issue
Read More »Same difference
A copyright suit pending in federal court in Boston bears a striking resemblance to an IP case playing out on the West Coast, though the amounts at stake are worlds apart.
Tagged with: Nov. 30 2011 issue
Read More »Scott’s man, Dan
If capturing the U.S. Senate seat long held by the late Democratic icon Ted Kennedy was challenging for Scott Brown, proving to the voters of Massachusetts that he deserves to keep it may be even more so.
Tagged with: Nov. 30 2011 issue
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