New England Biz Law Update

The NLRB has issued a decision in Home Depot USA, Inc., holding that an employer violated the National Labor Relations Act when it discharged an employee for refusing to remove the hand-drawn letters “BLM” — the acronym for “Black Lives Matter” — ...

A post-COVID tug-of-war is playing out between employers calling workers back to the office and employees who want to work from home. Among other reasons, employers focus on the importance of in-person collaboration, mentoring, and performance monitoring. On the other ...

Since the launch of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, the reactions of lawyers to artificial intelligence have varied from scorn and denial to fear. Lawyers have famously gotten into trouble for failing to double check citations generated by artificial intelligence.  ...

Construction loans are different from other mortgage loans in that the construction lender makes advances of loan funds to the borrower as work is completed in multiple (typically monthly) draws over the course of the loan term, rather than making ...

In the commercial real estate world, raising equity for real estate investment and deploying the private equity model of investing have been increasingly commonplace.  Before the stock market crash of 1987, bank underwriting standards were far looser than today, with ...

For years, courts in all jurisdictions across the United States wrestled with what constitutes a “deadlock” for a privately-held company, but without attempting to fashion an overall framework for evaluating claims of deadlock. That changed with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial ...

We go by many names: lawyer, attorney, litigator, counselor, advocate – and these labels are often used interchangeably. We are taught to advocate zealously for our clients. In fact, we are obligated to do so. In the litigation setting, many ...

On January 1, 2024, the reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) will take effect, requiring most US private companies to file and update information about the individuals who own and control them. The CTA, enacted in 2021, requires ...

Last month the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision holding that Walmart’s policy of refusing to provide light duty assignments to pregnant workers did not violate current law. In the case, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ...

Not all this summer’s United States Supreme Court decisions were controversial. In a decision that is probably only meaningful to litigation lawyers, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that foreign, private arbitration disputes do not have access to United States federal ...