New England Biz Law Update

A confidentiality agreement that an employee signed in 2005 in conjunction with a separate employment agreement was no longer enforceable after the employee executed a new employment agreement in 2012 that made no reference to any existing confidentiality agreement, a ...

The numbers are clear: The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ recent rejection of challenges to Ropes & Gray’s district court victories on discrimination and retaliation claims should not be taken as a clear sign of progress in diversifying the ...

Attorneys routinely communicate with clients by email, relying on the assumption that their communications are cloaked with the attorney-client privilege and the work product protection. But that can be a dangerous assumption in the close corporation context, where shareholders owe ...

A maternity patient at Boston Medical Center who was sexually assaulted by a non-clinical employee that was alone with her in violation of institutional policy could bring a negligent supervision action against the hospital, the Appeals Court has ruled. A ...

The University of Rhode Island could not prohibit its part-time faculty members from teaching more than two courses in a semester, a Superior Court judge has determined. An arbitrator ordered the university to refrain from imposing a two-course limit per ...

An employee who was fired as soon as her medical leave ended could not sue her employer for interfering with her Family and Medical Leave Act rights, a federal judge has determined. The defendant employer and a co-defendant vice president ...

A bank manager’s unauthorized review and use of privileged emails detailing his former employer’s litigation strategy warranted the dismissal of his lawsuit over breach of his employment contract, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled. The plaintiff, John C. Ponte, ...

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 ...