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Trademarks need to create a ‘lasting’ impression

When selecting a trademark, clients and their trademark attorneys and clients frequently have a debate. On the one side, attorneys strongly encourage clients to select arbitrary or fanciful marks for their goods or services, while clients commonly look to suggestive ...

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ACC / Northeast Chapter: Chapter is going back to school!

Our seminar schedule this fall has a “back to school” flavor. Our first program of the new “school year” – “Back to School: ACC’s Annual Update of Critical Developments” – was sponsored by Foley Hoag LLP. Our second program was ...

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NECCA: Seminars for upcoming year cover timely, practical topics

Over 25 years ago, seven in-house lawyers began to meet informally over lunch to discuss issues in common to their respective in-house practices. The New England Corporate Counsel Association, Inc. was born, and from its modest beginnings, NECCA has grown ...

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Employers getting clocked with hourly wage suits

Once considered a minor nuisance, wage and hour lawsuits are now one of the biggest concerns facing in-house counsel. Not only have they outpaced all other workplace actions since 2005, multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements are being regularly rung up as a result of class action certifications.

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Limit on disparate pay claims roils employment bar

A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that the statute of limitations on a Title VII disparate pay claim is triggered when the original decision on salary is made – and no new violation occurs each time a paycheck is issued ...

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New SOX audit rule expected to help smaller companies

It may not be all that smaller companies were hoping for, but new rules issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission are expected to lower the costs of complying with Sarbanes Oxley’s dreaded auditing requirements.

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Supreme Court tackles patent law ‘reform’

Federal legislators the last three years have introduced bills designed to reform the U.S. patent system, only to see them die in committee. But the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in this past term and made its own changes to the ...

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Waging a battle

Wage and hour suits have emerged from the factory floor and are going through the roof. Employers of all kinds, big and small, are facing more and more claims they failed to pay workers the wages and overtime to which ...

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Newsmakers

New Associations Martha Born has joined Biogen Idec, Inc. in Cambridge, Mass. as chief litigation counsel. Mary Clare Decker has been named chief legal officer and director of human resources at Injured Workers Pharmacy in Methuen, Mass. Martin C. Dunn ...

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Family responsibilities bias claims on the upswing

As the number of cases alleging family responsibilities bias continues to rise, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently issued guidelines addressing this emerging area of employment law.

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