New England Biz Law Update

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Achieving success at mediation often requires an understanding of how the process really works.

Feuds have been, and probably always will be, a fact of human existence. They always involve competing interests and a clash of cultures and personalities. England vs. France. Or the Red Sox vs. the Yankees. Feuds go on in business ...

Patent injunctions are still alive and well in the wake of the Supreme Court's decison.

Words! Words! I’m so sick of words! I get words all day through; first from him, now from you! Is that all you blighters can do? Show me! (My Fair Lady). The problem with understanding how to comply with §404 ...

Federal prosecutors have recently conducted a number of high-profile investigations and prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) (15 U.S.C. §§ 78dd-1 et seq.), which prohibits U.S. companies from bribing foreign officials to obtain or retain business. Some examples ...

Recent decisions have weakened the attorney-client privilege in the corporate context, and serve as a caution that the privilege is not sacrosanct.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that a patent licensee need not have to breach its license agreement in order to file a declaratory judgment action for non-infringement, invalidity, or unenforceability (MedImmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc.). The court’s decision in ...

Below are summaries of important opinions affecting in-house attorneys issued by the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as the 1st and 2nd Circuits, the Delaware Supreme Court, and the Delaware Chancery Court from mid-January 2007 through early March 2007. Readers ...

Vaughn Liebowitz leaves her 9-to-5 job at ABC Corp. (ABC), a publicly traded company, and heads home to begin her non-paying job as “Vaughn at Night”, a blog enjoying over 10,000 hits per day. “Vaughn at Night” cover’s Liebowitz’s musings ...