New England Biz Law Update

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 ...

While there hasn’t exactly been a stampede to online exchanges, “equity crowdfunding” — a means of raising capital from throngs of non-accredited investors, many of modest means — is off to a somewhat promising start, according to local attorneys who ...

A computer programmer from India who filed a declaratory action to void a noncompetition agreement he signed after coming to the United States had to litigate the action in Michigan pursuant to a forum-selection clause in the noncompete, a federal ...

A binding settlement between an employee and her employer did not bar the employee from later suing over employment practices that allegedly occurred during a brief six-week period in 2013 after she was reinstated, a U.S. magistrate judge in Rhode ...

The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will be asked to clear up ambiguity over the appropriate causation standard that should be applied to retaliation claims under the Family and Medical Leave Act. At least that’s the hope of amici ...

A public school teacher who claimed her principal withdrew his approval for her to participate in an alternative licensure program and gave her negative evaluations after she complained of harassment by a male student could bring a retaliation claim against ...

During the 2016 campaign, pledges to make progress on pay equity were an oft-heard refrain. But just because the election is over does not mean the issue is going away — not with Massachusetts, California, New York and Maryland recently ...

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: ...