New England Biz Law Update

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Employer-side attorneys are refuting a federal judge’s recent claim that a rise in summary-judgment decisions in employment cases is threatening the system of judicial protections for civil rights. U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Gertner – the keynote speaker at the ...

Lawyers who recently won a $5 million jury verdict in a breach-of-contract suit in the Massachusetts Business Litigation Session say their case was bolstered when the defense changed its strategy on the eve of trial, making available crucial evidence that ...

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