New England Biz Law Update

A corporate officer cannot challenge grand jury questions regarding an allegedly privileged conversation between himself and corporate counsel, the 1st Circuit recently ruled. The officer argued he had standing to assert the corporation’s attorney-client privilege, but the 1st Circuit disagreed, ...

Washington politicos are tussling over how far federal prosecutors can go in getting companies to waive the attorney-client and work product privileges as part of criminal investigations. For now, it would appear in-house lawyers have momentum on their side as ...

On April 26, the first-ever In-House Leaders in the Law event will honor in-house counsel in the region who have demonstrated extraordinary professional skills over the past year. The gala dinner and networking event will be hosted by New England ...

New Associations Mandie R. Araujo has joined New England School of Law as director of career services. Anne M. Action has been appointed professor of law and director of the law library. Megan E. Higgins has been named research counsel ...

Taming e-discovery

With a new chair in office and a new general counsel recently taking the helm, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission plans to pursue class actions, and to continue its restructuring plan and functioning as a “national law firm,” with district ...

An employee communicating with his lawyer on a company-owned computer could assert the attorney-client privilege because he hadn’t received adequate warning the e-mail exchanges might be read by the employer, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge recently decided. The employer, TransOcean ...

Rafe Banks III is an unlikely candidate for a leading role in cutting-edge media law. A former district attorney, Banks is a partner in a general practice, four-lawyer firm in Cummings, Ga., a small city about 40 miles northeast of ...

A recent California Supreme Court decision ruled that distributors and users of information on the Internet cannot be liable for defamation and are immune from suit under the Communications Decency Act. The holding reversed an appeals court decision and sided ...

The phrase “workplace violence” brings to mind images of angry former employees, armed to the teeth and hell-bent on seeking revenge against those who wronged them. But employment attorneys and workplace violence experts say that this stereotype is just the ...