New England Biz Law Update

New associations William Eggers, who recently retired as general counsel at Corning Incorporated, has returned to Nixon Peabody as senior counsel in the litigation practice. Eggers previously practiced at Nixon Peabody before going in-house. While at Corning, he was closely ...

New surveys show few minorities, women rise to the top at elite firms

A company determined to stamp out allegedly bogus workers’ compensation claims recently won a $2.3 million default judgment against 86 former employees and their attorneys after suing them for violating federal racketeering laws. After being laid off due to a ...

The Utah Supreme Court recently adopted a measure permitting in-house attorneys to represent their companies even if they have not taken the state bar exam. Instead, in-house counsel can receive a limited license to practice law. Rules on admitting out-of-state ...

Rhode Island verdict triggers wave of litigation

James Wallace, partner in a 270-lawyer Washington, D.C. firm, never used to get calls from potential plaintiffs. But now he gets them almost every day. That’s because in March 2006, Wallace’s first venture into plaintiffs’ work at Wiley Rein resulted ...

On April 30, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited decision regarding the “obviousness” standard for assessing the validity of patents, and in somewhat of a surprise, the ruling’s impact will be far less than many predicted.

The scenario is all too familiar. After two years of toiling in the laboratory vineyards, an emerging-growth technology company is preparing to consummate a venture capital financing, but the investors demand that managers and critical employees sign non-competition and non-solicitation ...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s January 2007 decision in Medimmune clarifying the power of federal courts to hear patent licensing disputes has already had an immediate and dramatic impact. In two decisions issued at the end of March, Sandisk v. ST ...

More than 200 public companies are now embroiled in Securities and Exchange Commission and company-initiated investigations, as well as private litigation. Aside from the accounting impact, what impact will Sarbanes-Oxley and litigation have on past option violations and future option ...