New England Biz Law Update

The Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts recently held its In-House Counsel Spring Social at the offices of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart in Boston. Photos by: Scott Ziegler and Maura Bastarache        

A state law mandating gender pay equity that has been on the books for more than 70 years has generated few cases, but the issue is increasingly top of mind for employment lawyers in Massachusetts. Attorneys are watching two recent ...

In this special section, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly and New England In-House celebrate the accomplishments of our 2016 In-House Leaders in the Law. The 26 honorees selected this year were chosen for a variety of reasons. Many played a major role in ...

The co-founder of an investment management company, who is the subject of a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit, is not entitled to the corporation’s attorney-client communica­tions even though he claims they are necessary for his ad­vice-of-counsel defense, a U.S. District ...

A U.S. District Court judge has ruled that a Rhode Island town did not violate the due process rights of its finance director by terminating him from his position in 2010. The plaintiff employee argued that the town’s post-termination process ...

A Superior Court judge in Rhode Island has upheld an administrative decision denying a construction worker’s claim for unpaid wages because of his status as an independent contractor rather than an employee. The plaintiff worker argued that the Board of ...

Restaurant managers who worked for the same chain but at different, separately incorporated locations could bring a class action against the parent corporation for allegedly depriving them of paid break time in violation of the state Wage Act, a Superior ...

An insurance company that issued a policy to a nightclub operator must defend the policyholder in a personal injury action brought by an injured patron, a U.S. District Court judge has determined. The insurer moved for summary judgment, arguing that ...

Shareholders of EMC Corp. could not bring a direct class action accusing company directors of breaching a fiduciary duty by recommending EMC’s sale for an allegedly inadequate price, a Superior Court judge in Massachusetts has ruled in a case of ...

Richard Heller is the first and only general counsel in the history of Legal Sea Foods, the New England institution that has come to set the standard for ocean-fare restaurants across the country. Since joining the company in 2003, Heller, ...