New England Biz Law Update

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.

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 ...