New England Biz Law Update

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 ...

In spite of their concerns about e-discovery, the vast majority of American businesses have never had their electronic discovery procedures challenged in court, according to a survey of 422 in-house lawyers conducted by Fulbright & Jaworski in its annual report ...

Claimed firm mishandled preparation of company

Recent studies indicate over 92 percent of all business information is stored electronically. It’s no surprise then that companies invest heavily in network security to guard against outside threats.

The letter usually begins with “Dear Vendor.” It goes on to explain how, as a result of circumstances beyond its control, Smith Corp. failed to thrive and its assets were sold off. The letter may also inform you that Jones ...