New England Biz Law Update

In the wake of the new Guidance issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB’s new Auditing Standard No. 5, there has been much debate as to whether these changes provide useful guidance, will result in cost savings, ...

It is no mean feat to keep track of all the legal developments affecting your company’s employment policies or employee handbook. Updating the employee handbook is a task that is forever being put off as a result. However, it’s critical ...

As all types of business records continue an inevitable migration from analog to digital form, many problems and questions will arise for in-house counsel. One issue relates to research and development efforts. A critical decision a company must make is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...