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Report: Firms should target global companies’ business

Corporate legal spending nationwide will remain flat in 2014, but winning the business of large international companies could give law firms a competitive edge in the year ahead, according to a newly released report from a local consulting group.

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Nurse’s $1.2M jury verdict vacated by JNOV ruling

A Massachusetts Superior Court judge has set aside a $1.2 million jury verdict awarded to a nurse who claimed her employer, Massachusetts General Hospital, retaliated against her for taking time off under the Family and Medical Leave Act. The plaintiff ...

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Texas company can’t be sued in R.I. for lost royalties

A Texas-based company could not be sued in Rhode Island for manufacturing allegedly defective fertilizer products that caused a Rhode Island plaintiff to lose royalty payments, a U.S. magistrate judge has found. The defendant company argued that the complaint should ...

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Teacher cannot claim associational bias

A year after a U.S. District Court judge ruled that a law firm associate could not pursue an associational discrimination claim against his employer, a second member of the federal bench has reached the same conclusion in a suit brought ...

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With decision, definition of whistleblower expands

An employee who complained internally but did not take his claims to the Securities and Exchange Commission until after he was fired still qualifies as a whistleblower under the Dodd-Frank Act and can sue for retaliation, a U.S. District Court ...

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Strategy looms large in non-compete arena

In an area of law where things move fast, end unpredictably, and there are multiple definitions of victory, one of the most difficult and critical decisions lawyers must make is deciding who to sue.

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The going rate(s)

For attorneys and law firms deciding what to charge, and for in-house counsel who want to be savvy customers of legal services, a recently released “rate report” compiled by a legal analytics company is a virtual treasure trove of information.

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Firms respond to ‘white-hot’ practice area

Two years after the “bounty” provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act on financial reforms took effect, whistleblower matters remain a sizzling growth area for lawyers in employment or finance and securities practice areas — or, as is increasingly common, on a ...

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Borrowers denied class status in federal ‘HAMP’ suit

Individual borrowers alleging that Bank of America mismanaged their loan modification requests under the federal Home Affordable Modification Program were not entitled to certification as a class, a U.S. District Court judge has found. As a HAMP servicer, the bank ...

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Real estate statute trumps independent contractor law

A Massachusetts Superior Court judge’s finding that real estate agents are governed by the commonwealth’s real estate statute, G.L. c.112, §87RR, and not the state’s independent contractor law, is headed to the Appeals Court, according to lawyers on both sides ...

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