New England Biz Law Update

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 ...

The Northeast chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel hosted a rooftop networking reception at law firm Holland & Knight’s Boston office on July 9.        

The Supreme Judicial Court has allowed Kamee B. Verdrager’s application for direct appellate review of the summary judgment dismissal of her discrimination suit against Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, Chairman R. Robert Popeo and others. The case will ...

Sony, Target and Home Depot are some of the household names associated with recent high-profile data breaches. But recent statistics strikingly reveal that cybercrime is an equal opportunity threat. The number of records compromised by data breaches grew from 93 ...