New England Biz Law Update

I have been practicing for nearly 40 years. During that time, I have appeared before dozens of courts and participated in or observed hundreds of arguments. I have had good days, and days where I was less effective. I have ...

This summer in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 144 S.Ct. 2244 (2024), the U.S. Supreme Court jettisoned the Chevron doctrine, the landmark decision lasting for 40 years requiring courts to defer to reasonable interpretations of federal agencies responsible for implementing ...

If you haven’t had the opportunity to wade through the 277-page opinion in United States v. Google LLC,  you certainly have heard that the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has found that Google is a monopolist under ...

North Carolina-based publishing company Champion Media, LLC allegedly violated federal employment laws when it refused to hire a deaf job applicant because of her disability and refused to provide her with a reasonable accommodation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is facing legal challenges to its recently issued final rule implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. The PWFA, which passed with bipartisan support in 2022, requires covered employers to provide reasonable accommodations to pregnant employees ...

Most US companies are now subject to the reporting requirements of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), which took effect on January 1, 2024. Absent judicial or legislative intervention, non-exempt companies will need to file information about the individuals who own ...

In its August 2023 decision, Robinhood Financial LLC v. Galvin, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial validated the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ 2020 regulation to mandate a fiduciary duty standard of care for Massachusetts broker-dealers when they provide investment advice ...

Leaders in burgeoning practices have multiple stakeholders to satisfy on a daily basis. Leaders shift their focus constantly from incoming client emails, to the discussion with their partners about allocating resources, to reviewing the work of mid-level associates, to speaking to the ...

In the Apple TV+ series Severance, the characters’ memories are surgically divided between their work and personal lives. In case that sounds attractive to you, please note that Severance is classified as a horror show. Many people in the real ...

When communicating in a professional setting, a person can only talk about one of three things. They can talk about themselves, about their content, or about their audience. Those are the only options. Most audiences don’t care about the speaker; ...