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...
06 Jun, 2024 Navigating Politics in the Workplace By Carla Reeves Matthew Horvitz In this election year, employees inevitably will engage in discussions of the impactful and divisive political issues that are at the...
29 May, 2024 Law Firms Can Keep Lateral Partners With Support at Work, Home By Brian Carrozza How can law firms attract, integrate, and retain top talent across all levels while gaining a competitive advantage? This is the...
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...
08 Feb, 2024 SCOTUS Issues Decision with Significant Implications for Future Whistleblower Cases By Carla Reeves On February 8, 2024, the United States Supreme Court issued an opinion in Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC, 601 U.S. ___(2024), a case...
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...
19 Dec, 2023 SEC Brings Enforcement Actions to Remedy Improper Contractual Limitations on Whistleblower Activities By Jaclyn Grodin Carla Reeves Erek Sharp The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) in recent months has settled a number of actions targeting employment...
31 Oct, 2022 "Let's Get 'Phygital'": How the Collision of Physical and Digital Commerce Compels the End of the Nexus Standard in ADA Adjudication By Michele Astor-Pratt As COVID-19 rapidly spread across the globe in early 2020, nations closed their borders and ordered citizens to stay at home to minimize...
03 Oct, 2022 Time to require boosters? By Josh Davis With COVID's likely resurgence, should employers mandate the new boosters? Employers who have eased restrictions may want to consider...
07 Jul, 2022 Joshua Davis - 2022 Employment Law Trailblazer By Josh Davis Joshua Davis has been named an “Employment Law Trailblazer” by The National Law Journal for his forward-thinking work in helping...
29 Apr, 2022 There's No Place Like Dot-Com: Are Websites Places of Public Accommodation Under Title III of the ADA? By Michele Astor-Pratt On April 7, 2021, in Gil v. Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that websites are not places...
21 Apr, 2022 Massachusetts Imposes Additional Potential Liability on Employers for Wage-and-Hour Compliance By Jennifer Furey Matthew Horvitz In a departure from earlier court decisions, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) has imposed additional potential liability on...
22 Feb, 2022 The Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine In Employment Litigation: Two Perspectives By Josh Davis Andrew O'Connor Imagine this scenario: A Chief Marketing Officer develops a strategic marketing plan for employer X then resigns to join a direct...
23 Jan, 2022 Hazy Directions on the Path Back to the Office By Josh Davis Banker & Tradesman Data that tracks the movements of cell phone users tells a stark story of two workplace cultures in the COVID era....
04 Nov, 2021 General Jurisdiction Trend Grows With NY High Court's Ruling By Jaclyn Grodin Isabel Sukholitsky Since the U.S. Supreme Court's 2014 landmark decision in Daimler AG v. Bauman,1 courts around the country have been reexamining their...