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All fired up

By New England In-House Staff
POSTED: March 30, 2012
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Reebok CEO Paul Fireman and lawyers from Boston’s Goulston & Storrs used to enter the courtroom side by side. Those days appear to be over.

Piper and prejudice

By New England In-House Staff
POSTED: March 30, 2012
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An ex-DLA Piper secretary has abruptly pulled the plug on a sexual harassment complaint she lodged against the Boston law firm and a former supervisor.

Company sues ex-employee who lost flash drive

By New England In-House Staff
POSTED: February 24, 2012
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A former employee who worked in the risk management and internal audit department at a data management company may have become a security risk herself after she reported losing a USB flash drive containing thousands of sensitive documents.

Private equity co. uses bankruptcy to keep Friendly’s afloat

By New England In-House Staff
POSTED: February 24, 2012
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A Florida-based private equity firm that bought the iconic Friendly’s restaurant chain in 2007 and managed it straight into Chapter 11 bankruptcy by 2011 used a common industry practice to buy back the assets of the business for a bargain while slashing pension benefits.

Ropes & Gray loses bid to dismiss legal malpractice claim

By New England In-House Staff
POSTED: February 24, 2012
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One of New England’s largest law firms has suffered a significant, and potentially costly, defeat at the hands of a federal judge.

$5M malpractice suit vs. Choate Hall heads to BLS

By New England In-House Staff
POSTED: January 24, 2012
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The law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart is accustomed to putting up a good fight from the counsel table in Boston’s Business Litigation Session.

DLA Piper asks judge to dismiss secretary’s lawsuit

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POSTED: January 24, 2012
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Things are starting to get interesting in a long-running lawsuit between DLA Piper and a former secretary who says the firm failed to properly investigate her sexual harassment accusations against a real estate partner in 2008.

A swing at infringement

By New England In-House Staff
POSTED: December 6, 2011
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Copyright infringement cases targeting the hosts of websites are notoriously hard to win. But a Boston law firm recently convinced a South Carolina jury that a search engine optimization firm should pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages after it hosted and advised a website that sold counterfeit golf clubs.

Same difference

By New England In-House Staff
POSTED: December 6, 2011
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A copyright suit pending in federal court in Boston bears a striking resemblance to an IP case playing out on the West Coast, though the amounts at stake are worlds apart.

Scott’s man, Dan

By New England In-House Staff
POSTED: December 6, 2011
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If capturing the U.S. Senate seat long held by the late Democratic icon Ted Kennedy was challenging for Scott Brown, proving to the voters of Massachusetts that he deserves to keep it may be even more so.