New England Biz Law Update

What impact could an international conference in Iceland have for the legal community in Boston? More than you might think, according to Elizabeth M. Myers, a partner in Verrill Dana’s Boston office. Myers attended the Arctic Circle Assembly 2015 recently ...

  It’s surely no fun getting grilled by lawyers from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. But Carlos R. Garza insists he was positively “frightened” when he was called to testify at the SEC’s regional office in Boston on Aug. ...

As a Burns & Levinson business litigator, Boston’s Michael C. Gilleran never anticipated he would end up in a dispute implicating the foreign policy powers of the United States president. But that’s exactly where he found himself earlier this summer ...

The “community-of-interest privilege” protected a defendant company from having to produce — in the context of a patent dispute with a competitor — a chain of emails discussing legal implications of a non-finalized licensing agreement between it and a third-party ...

A federal court in Massachusetts could exercise personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state employer sued for breach of an employment contract by a sales representative hired to work out of his Wayland home, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ...

An insurance carrier that challenged a $500,000 jury verdict did not commit unfair claims settlement practices when it stopped short of extending a formal offer to resolve the case, a Superior Court judge has ruled. The plaintiff, who was injured ...

A community college employee could not file a late challenge to her termination despite the fact that she was not notified of her rights until after the 30-day appeal period had expired, a Superior Court judge has found. The petitioner ...

A defendant in a patent infringement case had to produce all communications relating to the non-infringement legal opinion it claimed it received, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled. One of the defendant’s employees had disclosed during a deposition that ...

After gaining momentum in recent years during the administration of former Gov. Deval L. Patrick, noncompete reform in Massachusetts appears to have been back-burnered. With an advocate in the Corner Office — Patrick went as far as to support a ...

An employer that failed to pay an employee for all accrued wages and unused vacation time on the date of his termination, but paid everything in full before the employee filed a Wage Act lawsuit, was liable for treble damages ...