New England Biz Law Update

Legislation to reform the nation’s patent system is moving forward in the U.S. Senate after repeatedly stalling over the last four years amid disagreements about how infringement damages should be calculated. After a series of debates on the measure, the ...

Fired after leaving to care for ill kids

Even where formal complaint not filed

As the economy continues to soften, businesses of all stripes are being forced to cut costs and find ways to ensure their stability and growth. No department is immune. This article focuses on the innovative ways some corporate law departments ...

Your eyes read “Section 12 – Indemnification. Each Party shall indemnify and hold harmless,” and the litany all sounds familiar. There’s mirror language for both parties, and you have been instructed by the vice president of sales “just to review ...

The Federal Trade Commission has delayed enforcement of the “red flag” rule that requires certain businesses to implement identity-theft policies from May 1 to Aug. 1.

A temp agency could not fire an employee for violating a confidentiality provision that barred him from disclosing to any “other parties” the terms of his employment, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has decided.

For the first time, employers are required to pay a subsidy for former employees’ use of COBRA, and experts caution that they could see their overall health costs rise as a result.

As electronic discovery continues to proliferate, attorneys are faced with an increasingly dangerous minefield of ethical issues.

Acommercial truck driver’s claims that his employer had discriminated against him by not allowing him to return to work after he was treated for a psychiatric disorder came to a dead end last month when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ...