New England Biz Law Update

Imagine the following scenario: Mr. Smith, a vice president at the company for which you serve as in-house counsel, asks to meet with you privately. During the meeting, Smith tells you that he and several of his colleagues are engaged ...

The big news this spring is the new blockbuster SEC proxy disclosure rules covering compensation and governance that have dominated the legal literature. This column will go where others dared not — or, rather, cared not, to go: everywhere else. ...

Social media is a blessing and a curse for employers. It presents significant opportunities to market products and services and to establish and strengthen relationships. It also presents real challenges; it can decrease productivity and give employees an easy opportunity ...

Honoring a select group of in-house counsel for their accomplishments

When the going gets tough, the employment discrimination enforcement actions get going. And last year seems to be no different, with a number of factors creating a perfect storm of sorts for discrimination claims, including a rise in job losses, the passage of new age and disability bias laws and a tougher enforcement policy spearheaded by the Obama administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

White-collar lawyers say that federal prosecutors will have a tougher time getting convictions in public corruption cases if, as many predict, the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the controversial “honest services fraud” statute.

White-collar lawyers say that federal prosecutors will have a tougher time getting convictions in public corruption cases if, as many predict, the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the controversial “honest services fraud” statute.

A bankrupt airline could not be held liable to a former employee for handicap discrimination, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has found. The airline argued that a U.S. Bankruptcy Court order disallowing the discrimination claim resulted in the employee being forever barred from suing the airline under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

A judge’s decision to dismiss a plaintiff’s breach-of-contract lawsuit and sanction him $243,000 for destroying critical evidence in an employment dispute is a warning to civil litigants who do not cooperate during discovery, lawyers say.

Medical device-maker Boston Scientific will pay $22 million to resolve allegations its Guidant division paid kickbacks to doctors to get them to use its heart devices. The U.S. Department of Justice said Guidant paid physicians $1,000 to $1,500 each in ...