New England Biz Law Update

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 ...

Agreement signed in haste

Building and sustaning a productive relationship with outside litigation counsel doesn't require formal "litigation management guidelines."

In a controversial 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court recently limited the amount of time an employee can file a pay discrimination claim under Title VII.