New England In-House

The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. v. Siracusano held that a company could be liable for a material misstatement that might have affected the “total mix” of information in the marketplace, even when that misstatement lacked ...

Tagged with: July 2011 issue

Hospital risk managers in Massachusetts may be blind-sided by a new wave of tort claims coming their way. The claims are not the malpractice actions that hospitals so often see. They have nothing to do with medical care and don’t arise out of activities in the ER, operating room or radiology lab.

Tagged with: July 2011 issue

Publicly traded companies and their subsidiaries and affiliates would be well-advised to start preparing now for the wave of Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower claims that is currently sweeping the nation.

Tagged with: July 2011 issue

With the passage of legislation by the U.S. Senate in March and approval by the House Judiciary Committee in April to send a similar bill to the House for a vote, changes to patent law are likely later this year.

Tagged with: May 2011 issue

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s recent opinion in Global NAPs v. Awiszus (457 Mass. 489) has garnered wide attention across the bar, from employment attorneys to legal malpractice attorneys to in-house counsel.

Tagged with: May 2011 issue

If your company is like many others, it has been using the same non-compete agreement for years with little or no changes. So far, there haven’t been any major problems and it seems to cover the bases: departing employees are ...

Tagged with: May 2011 issue

After much anticipation, the United Kingdom Ministry of Justice recently issued its long-awaited Guidance for the Bribery Act of 2010. With the act set to take effect on July 1, the guidance provides some much needed instruction on the intended ...

Tagged with: May 2011 issue

What to do when the government comes calling is a topic of frequent discussion among both in-house and outside counsel. The need to respond appropriately to a government inquiry has taken on heightened significance given the recent prosecution of a ...

Tagged with: May 2011 issue

After a three-and-a-half-year hiatus, the Social Security Administration started sending “no-match” letters on April 6 to employers if an employee’s Social Security number does not correspond with the SSA’s records for the 2010 tax year. The current version of the no-match ...

“I imagine that right now, you’re feeling a little bit like Alice. Hmm? Tumbling down the rabbit hole?”  — Morpheus to Neo in “The Matrix” On March 22, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered a unanimous decision in the case of ...

Tagged with: May 2011 issue