New England Biz Law Update

All in attendance sat up and took notice when midway through a three-day conference on employment compliance, a branch chief of the U.S. Department of Labor’s enforcement division said that the agency expects to increase on-site investigations into whether companies ...

Tagged with: July 1 2013 issue

The U.S. Supreme Court’s first ruling addressing the Class Action Fairness Act is the latest bit of good news from Washington for the class action defense bar.

Tagged with: April 30 2013 issue

Deciding where the preemptive effect of federal rules governing drug manufacturing ends and states’ ability to impose liability on drug makers begins has never been an easy task — not even for the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Tagged with: April 30 2013 issue

A hospital could be sued for its alleged negligence in granting a physician credentials to practice medicine at the facility, a Superior Court judge in Worcester, Mass., has ruled.

Tagged with: April 30 2013 issue

An insurance salesman could sue his former employer under the Massachusetts Wage Act for failing to pay him “discretionary” commissions he claimed he earned before he was given notice of his termination, a U.S. District Court judge in Boston has ...

Tagged with: April 30 2013 issue

A union’s “job-targeting program” that subsidized union employers’ bids for steel-erecting jobs did not violate antitrust laws, even though a jury found that the union engaged in illegally coercive tactics in implementing the program, a U.S. District Court judge in ...

Tagged with: April 30 2013 issue

For most lawyers, filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court and publishing a novel within the span of six days — as Bingham McCutchen partner P. Sabin Willett recently did — would qualify as the biggest week of ...

Tagged with: April 30 2013 issue

STATUS CONFERENCE Updating a case previously reported in Lawyers Weekly The parties Plaintiff Jiri Poner is a Czech national, who makes his living as a hockey talent consultant. Defendant Bobby Orr Hockey Group is a sports agency that happens to ...

Tagged with: April 30 2013 issue

In an effort to fend off an actual audit of their books, one of the major tobacco companies hired a law firm to look into whether it was classifying its 5,000 workers correctly.

Tagged with: April 30 2013 issue

A federal appellate court has struck down the National Labor Relations Board’s controversial notice posting rule, the latest in a series of blows to the agency that has been mired in legal controversy.