New England Biz Law Update

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.

Every business involved in litigation has confronted the dilemma that large amounts of money and time must often be spent early in discovery and other preliminary stages – even in cases based on the slimmest of grounds. This dilemma is ...

Last year the Security and Exchange Commission’s Advisory Committee on Smaller Public Companies proposed sweeping changes in two areas – SOX 404 and capital formation. Who would have guessed that the capital formation proposals would end up as the revolutionary ...

Phew! It appears the wave has crested on those pesky (and expensive) options backdating investigations. But before we bid farewell to the government investigation de jour, it is worth spending a few minutes to reflect on what can be learned ...

Is arbitration delivering on its promise as a faster, cheaper alternative to litigation?

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently issued an enforcement guidance related to unlawful bias against employees with caregiving responsibilities. The Guidance is significant to employers because it reflects a growing trend of claims in which workers allege they were discriminated ...

If your company owns a famous trademark and wants to prevent others from using it, or one that is close to it, to establish trademark infringement you must prove a likelihood of consumer confusion between the marks. To establish likelihood ...