12 Dec, 2024 Top 10 Legal Malpractice Defenses As Claims Tick Up By Richard Zielinski Jennifer Mikels Attorneys Richard Zielinski and Jennifer Mikels, writing for Law360, detail ten key defenses law firms can use to effectively combat...
15 Oct, 2024 Political Speech in the Workplace: Legal Considerations for Employers By Carla Reeves As the 2024 U.S. presidential election approaches, many employers are bracing themselves for a wave of political discussions—and...
13 Sep, 2024 How to Win at Restructuring in the Gilded Age of Private Credit By Timothy John Carter When broadly syndicated bank loans dominated debt finance, law firms without deep-rooted connections with the banks issuing those loans...
23 Jul, 2024 Eyes Wide Open to Experiential Learning By Jaclyn Grodin Experiential learning can be transformative for law students who incorporate career clinics, externships, and internships as part of...
27 Jun, 2024 Owners Beware: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Underscores Strict Adherence to Prompt Payment Act By Peter Bilowz Rhian Cull Molly Quinn On Monday, June 17, 2024, the Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) issued its decision in Business Interiors Floor Covering Business Trust v....
05 Jun, 2024 5th Circuit Strikes Down SEC Private Fund Rules. Now What? By Jaclyn Grodin The long-awaited SEC private fund rules were put on ice by the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals today when the appellate court struck...
22 Apr, 2024 Hackers Loot IOLTA Account; Insurers Look for Cover By Richard Rosensweig The case of Haggett v. Kirzer is raising significant questions not only about the security of law firm accounts, but also about potential...
18 Jan, 2024 Mass. Bar Split As Pre-Pandemic 12-Person Juries Return By Jennifer Furey What a judge called the "last vestige" of COVID-era restrictions in Massachusetts state courts came to an end in the new year with the...
08 Jan, 2024 How I Made Partner: Be ‘A Good Firm Citizen in Addition to a Good Lawyer,’ Says Jennifer Mikels of Goulston & Storrs By Jennifer Mikels How did she make partner? Jennifer Mikels discusses her trajectory to Goulston & Storrs director with Law.com. Learn more about her...
03 Jan, 2024 Foreclosure And Deficiency Judgments In Massachusetts And New York: Two States, Two Very Different Processes By Alexander Berger Charles Jacob III Rajinder Saini You just finished the foreclosure process but the asset securing the loan was not worth enough to recover the entire amount of the debt....
27 Dec, 2023 Keeping the Lights On: Payment of Operating Expenses After an Event of Default By Andrew Bensson Kimberly Yeager Craig Todaro When an event of default occurs under a mortgage loan, the lender’s first thought might be, “How will we get repaid?”, while the...
21 Dec, 2023 Must Lenders Negotiate Post-Borrower CRE Default? By Andrew Baldizon Charles Jacob III With rising interest rates, the economic slowdown, and an uptick in distressed real estate, commercial borrowers and lenders are...
20 Dec, 2023 “Frustration of Purpose" Defense Still Frustrating for Commercial Tenants By Joel Antwi Mariana Korsunsky Kevin O'Flaherty Gary Ronan +1 more... Show less Inland Commercial Real Estate Services, LLC v. ASA EWC, LLC, 213 N.E.3d 604 (2023). The Massachusetts Appeals Court recently issued a...
25 Sep, 2023 SEC collects Wall Street's private messages as WhatsApp probe escalates By Jaclyn Grodin Reuters The U.S. securities regulator has collected thousands of staff messages from more than a dozen major investment companies,...
03 Mar, 2023 Could It Happen Here? Firm Claws Back Associate's Salary By Richard Zielinski Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly A North Dakota law firm has succeeded in clawing back nearly $36,000 of a former associate’s salary by...
16 Feb, 2023 How New Cases Are Expanding Parameters of Litigation Privilege By Jennifer Mikels Richard Rosensweig Isabel Sukholitsky Bloomberg Recently, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court joined a growing number of jurisdictions pushing the boundaries of the...