New England Biz Law Update

Securities fraud litigators view a recent decision from the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as reducing the odds of investors being able to recover on claims that a company violated federal law by failing to disclose known risks to ...

Management-side employment attorneys are beginning to advise their clients on what they should expect under Rhode Island’s new “pay equity” law, which after years of previous efforts by legislators gained passage in the General Assembly’s most recent session and was ...

For premises liability attorneys, the proliferation of surveillance cameras in the commercial setting has meant a corresponding focus on the duty to preserve video evidence that businesses ignore at their own peril. Boston defense lawyer Kevin M. Hensley represents a ...

The title of the Biden administration’s recent executive order on “Promoting Competition in the American Economy” is unlikely to set off alarm bells. After all, “more competition” conjures images of new jobs, better wages and prices for consumers, and more ...

A person aggrieved by discrimination in a place of public accommodation need not file a charge with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and exhaust her administrative remedies before filing suit, a Superior Court judge has decided. In so ruling, the ...

A nonresident defendant’s contacts with Rhode Island were not robust enough to allow the federal court to exercise jurisdiction in a lawsuit accusing that defendant of breaching a noncompete agreement with his former employer, U.S. District Court Judge William E. ...

A hospital’s emailed “offer letter” did not constitute a valid, binding contract, nor could the doctor who received it establish a promissory estoppel claim, a Superior Court judge in Massachusetts has decided. At the outset of his decision in Moore ...

A gig worker who cleaned houses through an online service provider that allegedly misclassified her as an independent contractor was bound by a “clickwrap” mandatory arbitration agreement, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. Plaintiff Maisha Emmanuel submitted ...

It certainly makes for a good sound bite, especially as outbreaks rage across India. But intellectual property attorneys doubt that waiving patent and other IP protections for COVID-19 vaccines would turn the tide on the global pandemic. On May 5, ...

A federal judge has denied a motion by the city of Providence seeking summary judgment in a Title VII retaliation lawsuit brought by one of its employees, concluding that conflicting evidence prevented the city from articulating a “legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason” ...