New England Biz Law Update

Massachusetts businesses are on pace to report a record number of data breaches in 2014. The revelation can be added to a litany of recent jarring developments that Bay State lawyers say have their clients taking privacy and data security ...

An employee could not bring suit in federal court more than 90 days after receiving a right-to-sue letter from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission despite the fact that he filed a new administrative charge within the 90-day period, the 1st ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has handed down a pair of decisions that could make it more difficult to bring patent infringement claims in some circumstances, further hampering suits brought by so-called “patent trolls.” But while the justices’ rulings in Limelight ...

Anyone who keeps tabs on the Massachusetts Superior Court’s Business Litigation Session in Boston has likely noticed an influx of lawsuits over the past year accusing businesses of improperly collecting ZIP codes from customers paying with credit cards. If that ...

Law firms that don’t ensure diversity within their ranks will lose out on opportunities to be hired by large organizations and young general counsels. That was one of the major takeaways at the annual meeting of Meritas — a referral ...

With 78 deals totaling $11.3 billion, merger and acquisition activity in New England bounced back strongly in the first quarter of this year. According to Mergermarket, the region hasn’t seen a quarter with that level of activity since the second ...

White-collar lawyers say gone are the days when a civil suit brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission is stayed simply because the U.S. attorney is prosecuting a parallel criminal case. The latest example illustrating the new reality: Securities and ...

The Appeals Court in Massachusetts has ruled in an issue of first impression that a Chapter 93A counsel-fee award can, as a matter of law, include the work performed by an in-house attorney who was first chair at a 17-day ...

While everyone has been fixated on patent trolls, experts say a different breed of abusive intellectual-property litigants have been making a comeback: businesses that assert dubious patents for strategic reasons. Patent trolls are non-practicing entities — those that hold a ...

A company that hired an independent contractor without requiring him to sign a confidentiality agreement could not later sue him for misappropriation of trade secrets, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge has decided. The plaintiff company apparently had brought aboard the ...