New England Biz Law Update

Ask the Coach appears regularly in New England In-House. Two expert executive coaches, Dr. Lew Stern and Linda Lerner, share their thoughts and ideas in answering your questions on complex management and leadership issues and difficult work situations. We are ...

An employee is reprimanded for a minor error. The supervisor considers the matter closed and moves on to the next task. The employee, feeling offended and put-upon, ponders underlying motivations for the discipline. The conclusion he arrives at is that ...

Your organization recently terminated a high-ranking employee, had a dispute with a major customer, or learned about an accident involving one of its products. Did you know that lawyers for the fired employee, the angry former customer, or the accident ...

Should a court grant an injunction to a company that can demonstrate that a former employee - who didn't sign a non-competition agreement - will nonetheless inevitably use or disclose the company's trade secrets to a competitor?

James E. Bowers, former vice president of corporate compliance at Aetna, has joined Day, Berry & Howard to lead that firm’s new Compliance Risk Services group, an interdisciplinary group of lawyers addressing compliance programs and compliance risk management issues as ...

If you are the general counsel of a small or medium size company in an unregulated industry, you may think risk management is an interesting topic, but that it isn’t a critical issue in your industry. This may not be ...

Massachusetts recently enacted a new Business Corporations Act, the first major overhaul of the law governing business since the statute was enacted over a century ago.

Below are summaries of important opinions affecting in-house attorneys issued by the U.S. Supreme Court, 1st and 2nd Circuits and Delaware Court of Chancery from late January 2004 through early April 2004. Readers can access the full text of the ...

Employers should be reminded by counsel, from time to time, that the best way to avoid an OSHA violation is to adequately prepare for OSHA inspections before they occur. This will include a review of all training policies, training records ...

Innocent horseplay or minor employee misconduct are common occurrences even in the most well run organizations. But how an organization deals with employee misconduct can mean the difference between a “tight ship” and a very expensive lawsuit. Every manager has ...