New England Biz Law Update

The Boston NAACP has selected an in-house lawyer from Cambridge to replace Michael Curry, who is stepping down after six years as the branch’s president. Genzyme attorney Tanisha M. Sullivan, who was the initial investigator into allegations of racial discrimination ...

If you shared with friends and family around your Thanksgiving table reasons to be grateful this year, here’s one you probably left out: the fact that you aren’t a management-side employment attorney. If you are such a lawyer, you would ...

William N. Gabovitch, General Counsel for Primark U.S. Corp, is the subject of this Q&A, conducted by Ellen M. Keiley with members of the Massachusetts legal profession.   EK: Tell me about your background and why you came to Primark. GABOVITCH: ...

A U.S. magistrate judge has ruled that a health care provider that brought suit over a failed attempt to buy Landmark Medical Center in Woonsocket need not disclose the communications it had with a special master concerning asset purchase agreements. ...

A plaintiff alleging sex discrimination and sex harassment must present only sufficient circumstantial evidence from which a jury could find in her favor, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has decided. The plaintiff employee filed suit against her former ...

A Hong Kong investment analyst pleaded fraud with sufficient particularity to proceed with an intentional misrepresentation claim against a Massachusetts company that rescinded a job offer shortly after he left the employment he had, a U.S. District Court judge has ...

Consumer protection attorneys are lauding a proposed federal rule that would effectively ban class action waivers in arbitration clauses included in new contracts for financial services. At the same time they are bracing for a wave of legal challenges by ...

Law firms that think they are adequately covered for cybersecurity risks may want to think again. A firm’s insurer may have slipped an exclusion for data breaches into the general liability policy the firm has been renewing year after year. ...

Lawyers investigating whether an out-of-state defendant’s operation of a website provides a basis for suing the party in local federal court will find few bright-line rules coming from decisions issued in the 1st Circuit. A survey of recent opinions by ...

A car dealership could not enforce a policy banning employees from wearing pins, insignia and “message clothing” in the workplace, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in a split decision. The dealership petitioned for review of a decision ...