According to a recent study, more than half of all employees admit to stealing employers’ confidential data.

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Social media clearly has changed the way we interact with each other. We offer up-to-date commentary about the details of our lives with BlackBerries, iPhones, smart phones and other devices.  And we can say what we want without fear of ...

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The justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court have agreed to hear a case that puts at issue what many lawyers, until now, had thought to be a well-accepted interpretation of a critical paragraph of residential purchase and sale agreements.

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From the Pension Protection Act of 2006 to fee disclosure regulations taking effect in 2012, employer-sponsored retirement plans have seen a flurry of changes from Congress and regulators.

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One advantage of working as in-house counsel for a company is that, in theory at least, you have only a single client: the company itself. But, because of that fact, many in-house counsel become desensitized over time to potential conflicts ...

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A law firm representing the plaintiffs in a patent infringement suit was not subject to disqualification based on the fact that two of its partners, while associated with a different firm in 2004, had a one-day meeting with the defendant ...

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The last oral argument of the U.S. Supreme Court’s term was an explosive one, as the justices considered whether SB 1070, the controversial Arizona immigration statute, is preempted by federal law.

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An investor who lost $7 million investing in a hedge fund could not sue the fund’s operator under the Uniform Securities Act for failing to disclose in the fund’s prospectus that he had been previously involved in a residential landlord-tenant ...

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A fired employee cannot sue for severance pay under the Massachusetts Wage Act, a Superior Court judge has ruled.

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The fallout from the firing of Henry C. Suominen Jr. has stretched across eight years, producing a lawsuit, a jury trial, an appeal and a second jury trial.

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