Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly articles from August 2007

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly archives from August 2007

Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers Admonitions: August 6, 2007.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff BBO Public Reprimand No. 2007-18 IN RE: CHARLES F. PERRAULT Last known office address:79 Haverhill Street Methuen, MA 01844-4203 Order (public reprimand) entered by the Board June 21, 2007 SUMMARY...

Commentary: Justice Botsford and the Patrick judiciary.(Judge Margot Botsford, Governor Deval L. Patrick)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff "He will seek to apply the law and not make the law." -- Gov. A. Paul Cellucci, nominating a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, 2000 "I want judges who view the Constitution as a...

Commentary: Sweating my way through the courts of Cape Cod.
August 6, 2007... Byline: David Yas Visiting the courts of Cape Cod during the summer seemed like the most slam-dunk of ideas. That's until you realize you just signed up to spend the daytime hours of a humid July day sitting in a courtroom. ...

Clearing the bench in Massachusetts.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Having named Superior Court Judge Margot Botsford to a vacancy on the Supreme Judicial Court, Gov. Deval L. Patrick is expected to turn his attention now to nine other openings in various...

NUSL in Boston graduate who keeps on giving.(Northeastern University School of Law, Margot Botsford)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Northeastern University School of Law graduate Margot Botsford, nominated two weeks ago to a seat on the Supreme Judicial Court, is generously giving back to the school that helped her become a...

The Police presence in Boston's Fenway Park.(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Although the Boston Municipal Court was open for business last Monday after The Police reunion concert at Fenway Park the previous weekend, those who work with the uniformed men and women sharing...

There's nothing legitimate about same-sex marriage.(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: Same-sex couples can engage in sexual relations until the world ends, but they will never produce offspring. That is irrefutable, because the essence of the relationship is...

Judge Advocate General Corps is nation's oldest law firm.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz With beginnings in the administration of President George Washington, the Judge Advocate General Corps can and does lay claim to being the nation's oldest law firm. The JAG Corps can also trace its roots to...

Verdicts & Settlements August 6, 2007: Undiagnosed tumor leaves baby partially paralyzed.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $2.3 million settlement In January 2003, days after his two-month immunization shots, the minor plaintiff was evaluated at his pediatrician's office for inconsolable crying and a possible...

Verdicts & Settlements August 6, 2007: Passenger fractures leg during rear-end collision.(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $315,000 settlement The 54-year-old claimant was a restrained front-seat passenger when a rear-end motor vehicle accident occurred in Bourne. On impact, the passenger's right leg struck...

Verdicts & Settlements August 6, 2007: Woman loses control of snowmobile, dies of injuries.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $1.25 million settlement A wrongful death action arose out of an accident on Dec. 30, 2002, when the plaintiff's decedent, a 41-year-old mother, was operating a snowmobile. The plaintiffs...

Late-in-life Judge Advocate General Corps does tour of duty in Iraq.(attorney Harold P. Naughton Jr.)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff At age 47, attorney Harold P. Naughton Jr. is a relative newcomer to military service, having joined the Army as a member of the Judge Advocate General Corps only four years ago. Not that...

Lawyers predict mega-verdict won't impact results in other suits.
August 6, 2007... Byline: David E. Frank Attorneys familiar with the facts of a recent $102 million federal civil-rights judgment say the evidence presented at trial was so egregious and out of the norm that the award's effect on other well-documented...

Mass. Superior Court rules 'good health' clause no basis for denying insurance coverage.(Judge Janet L. Sanders, Massachusetts)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Eric T. Berkman A life insurance company could not invoke a "good health" clause to deny death benefits to the widow of an insured who did not know he had a fatal disease when he applied for the policy, a Superior Court judge has...

Doerfer to leave Mass. Appeals Court.(Judge Gordon L. Doerfer, Massachusetts)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: David E. Frank After filling a seat on the Supreme Judicial Court, Gov. Deval L. Patrick will now have to turn his attention to a vacancy on the Appeals Court. Judge Gordon L. Doerfer, 67, announced last week that he is...

Rarely used state law in Mass. leads to blowing of whistle on Big Dig.(Massachusetts)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz Little noted in the news coverage of a recent $50 million settlement over allegedly tainted concrete in the Big Dig tunnels was a truck driver's use of a rarely applied state whistleblower law that helped lift...

Mass. District Court Judicial Vacancies: August 6, 2007.(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff DISTRICT COURT Deadline: Sept. 5, 2007 * Uxbridge District Court, clerk-magistrate Visit www.mass.gov for complete policy on application process

IN RE: CHARLES F. PERRAULT.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff BBO Public Reprimand No. 2007-18 IN RE: CHARLES F. PERRAULT Last known office address:79 Haverhill Street Methuen, MA 01844-4203 Order (public reprimand) entered by the Board June...

IN RE: CHARLES F. PROCTOR.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff BBO Public Reprimand No. 2007-17 IN RE: CHARLES F. PROCTOR Last known office address:25 Main StreetOxford, MA 01540 Order (public reprimand) entered by the Board June 21, 2007 ...

IN RE: ELIZABETH A. MORROW.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff BBO Public Reprimand No. 2007-19 IN RE: ELIZABETH A. MORROW Last known office address: 8805 SE Riverfront Terrace Tequesta, FL 33469 Order (public reprimand) entered by the Board...

IN RE: IN THE MATTER OF AN ATTORNEY.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff SJC No: BD-2007-032 IN RE: IN THE MATTER OF AN ATTORNEY Judgment of Admonition entered by Ireland, J., on June 21, 2007 This matter came before the Court, Ireland, J., presiding on an...

IN RE: OSCAR W. WEEKES, JR.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff SJC No. BD-2005-009 IN RE: OSCAR W. WEEKES, JR. Last known address:10901 NW 7th CourtPlantation, FL 33324 S.J.C. Order of Indefinite Suspension entered by Justice Ireland on June 26,...

Notices from the Mass. Courts: August 6, 2007.(Massachusetts)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT Boston, Massachusetts 02108 NOTICE OF APPROVAL Notice is hereby given that the Supreme Judicial Court has approved and promulgated rules as further indicated...

Boston attorney Mark Robert "Bob" Dushman, dies at 59.(Obituary)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Mark Robert "Bob" Dushman, a veteran First Amendment lawyer and media attorney, died July 26 at his Newton home after a battle with lung cancer. He was 59. Dushman represented the Boston...

Commentary: Patented tax strategies - Are you serious?
August 6, 2007... Byline: Gary C. Bubb The expression on most lawyers' faces when they first learn that tax strategies can be patented is predictable -- a sort of bemused scowl. You can see the wheels turning: How can this be possible? Aren't all taxpayers...

Mass. Appellate Tax Board Case Summaries: August 6, 2007.(Massachusetts)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Taxation Real estate assessment Where the owners of property on Martha's Vineyard seek a real estate tax abatement, that request must be denied on the ground that the owners have not...

District Court/BMC Appellate Division Case Summaries: August 6, 2007.(Boston Municipal Court)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil practice Involuntary commitment - Hearing Where an appellant, who had been readmitted to a mental health facility following discharge, moved for an emergency hearing, it was no...

Mass. Appeals Court Case Summaries: August 6, 2007.(Massachusetts)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Appeals Judgments affirmed Joseph, trustee, v. Norton, executor, et al. (Lawyers Weekly No. 81-655-07) (2 pages) (challenge to a judgment finding a 1997 mortgage to be valid) (No....

Mass. Labor Relations Commission Case Summaries: August 6, 2007.(Massachusetts)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Labor Motion for reconsideration Where (1) a union's prohibited practice charge was dismissed and (2) the union has since moved for reconsideration in light of a settlement agreement with...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Case Summaries: August 6, 2007.(Massachusetts)(List)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil practice Civil commitment - Burden of proof Where a civilly committed petitioner has applied for a discharge or a transfer to a different facility, we hold that he bears the burden...

. Superior Courts Case Summaries: August 6, 2007.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Contract Covenant not to compete - Divorce Where a defendant has been operating a funeral home in the same town as one operated by the plaintiff, her ex-husband, the defendant must be...

1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: August 6, 2007.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Appeals En banc review - Federal Death Penalty Act Where a defendant has petitioned for rehearing en banc, that petition must be denied, as a majority of the judges have not voted in...

Mass. Lawyers in the News: August 6, 2007.(Massachusetts)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Professional groups Randy S. Chapman, a partner at Chapman & Chapman in Chelsea, has been named president of the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. John L. Talvacchia,...

Commentary: Building a better law-firm website in 8 easy steps.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Bert Jackson It is almost unheard of today for a law firm of any size to be without a website. In fact, many firms are now developing second- or third-generation websites that enhance, improve and expand upon earlier versions. But...

Commentary: Demonstrate how you provide value.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Edward Poll Regular readers of this column know that I'm a firm advocate of value billing -- demonstrating to clients the worth as well as the cost of the legal services they receive, and billing them accordingly. Value billing...

Commentary: Making sure document is ready to file with the court or sent to the client.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Julie Baker and Lisa Healy Write On is an occasional feature on The Practice page intended to provide guidance on writing memoranda and briefs that will lead to the results their authors -- attorneys -- are hoping for from readers...

Verdicts & Settlements August 6, 2007: Girl hit by car while running to catch school bus.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $435,000 settlement On March 15, 2004, the 13-year-old plaintiff was standing in front of her home in Lexington when she saw her school bus stop up the street from her home. Fearing that she...

Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers Admonitions: August 13, 2007.
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff BBO Public Reprimand No. 2007-20 IN RE: ROBERT MALTON DUZAN Last known office address: 54 Squire Road Winchester, MA 01890 Order (public reprimand) entered by the Board July 25, 2007 ...

Commentary: Casinos? Let's see all the cards first.
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Massachusetts now confronts a proposal to allow the creation of one or more Indian casinos similar to the ones at Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun in Connecticut. From a policy standpoint, there are...

Commentary: The law of the island: visiting a court in the middle of the ocean.
August 13, 2007... Byline: David Yas This is exciting. I'm getting on a boat, on assignment to visit a courthouse. For a fleeting moment, I feel like Nicholas Cage in "The Rock." Anyway, there's a high-speed ferry that takes you from Hyannis to...

Counseling on casinos in Massachusetts.
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff With a casino in Middleborough looking more and more like a sure bet, in the wake of a resounding "yes" vote by town residents last month, and the possibility that the town of Palmer and the cities...

Judicial Nominating Commission in Mass. not so appealing.(Massachusetts)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Even before the recent announcement that Judge Gordon L. Doerfer will leave the Appeals Court later this month, there had been no shortage of interest in the seats vacated by his former colleagues...

Executive director of LCL organization in Mass. leaving.(Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers' executive director Ellen Murphy is resigning in Massachusetts)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Less than two years after taking over the Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers organization in Massachusetts, LCL Executive Director Ellen Murphy has announced she will leave in December to return to her...

Case proves system 'severely benighted'.(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: Justice is purblind. Witness the July 31 rescript opinion Adoption of Betsy, Lawyers Weekly No. 11-176-07, in which the Appeals Court upheld the termination of parental...

Ineffective-counsel claims should be encouraged.(Letter to the editor)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To the editor: Kevin Reddington is a great lawyer, but I take exception with some of the comments he made in his letter concerning what he regards as the increasing number of specious claims...

Verdicts & Settlements August 13, 2007: Employee sustains injuries while unloading granite.
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $1.07 million settlement On Oct. 24, 2003, the plaintiff, while in the course of his employment as a custom kitchen designer and salesperson, was told by his employer to assist a...

Verdicts & Settlements August 13, 2007: Woman slips, fractures ankle on icy parking lot.
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $125,000 settlement In December 2005, the 52-year-old plaintiff pulled her car into the parking lot of a dentist's office, above which her daughter maintained an apartment. To gain access to...

Verdicts & Settlements August 13, 2007: Passenger's spina bifida worsens following accident.
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $100,000 settlement On June 22, 2003, the 50-year-old plaintiff was a rear-seat passenger in a car driven by a friend -- the two were on vacation in Florida -- when a car coming in the...

Mass. Land Courts Case Summaries: August 13, 2007.(Massachusetts Land Courts)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Real property 'Paper street' Where a plaintiff owner of registered land contends that a "paper street" extending into his property no longer exists, the plaintiff is not entitled to a...

Mass. Commission Against Discrimination Case Summaries: August 13, 2007.(Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil rights Discrimination - Blindness - Bus company Where employees of the respondent bus company refused to sell a blind married couple seats on a bus to New York because of the...

Other Mass. Agencies Case Summaries: August 13, 2007.(Massachusetts)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Conflict of interest Contracts for furniture purchase Where the former executive director of the Lowell Regional Water Utility certified performance of two contracts involving the purchase...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Case Summaries: August 13, 2007.(Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Attorneys Privilege - Common interest doctrine - Joint defense agreement Where (1) defendants opposed a document production request on the ground that documents sought are privileged, (2)...

Mass. Superior Court Case Summaries: August 13, 2007.(Massachusetts Superior Court)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Corporate Representative capacity Where defendant individuals have moved for judgment on the pleadings with respect to the plaintiff's complaint alleging defective construction of a home,...

1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: August 13, 2007.
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Administrative VA - Equitable estoppel Where (1) a plaintiff's administrative claim with the defendant Department of Veteran Affairs was settled in 1999 and (2) the plaintiff filed a...

U.S. District Court Case Summaries: August 13, 2007.
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil practice False Claims Act - Limitations Where a defendant has moved to dismiss False Claims Act counts asserted by the United States, the motion must be denied, as the counts are...

Massachusetts Lawyers in the News: August 13, 2007.(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff New associations Philip S. Olsen has joined the Boston office of McCarter & English as a partner. Jill E. Uhl has joined the Boston office of Nixon Peabody as counsel. DLA Piper,...

Commentary: The importance of taking stock of your career.
August 13, 2007... Byline: Stephen E. Seckler Ed Koch served as mayor of New York throughout the 1980s and was famous for employing the phrase, "How'm I doin'?" For a politician like Ed Koch, the answer was, of course, critical to his survival. But when...

Boston law firm going down the YouTubes.(Choate, Hall & Stewart)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff One might not expect that a prestigious Boston firm like Choate, Hall & Stewart would have any problem recruiting new associates. But as law firms compete aggressively to attract the most promising...

Commentary: Hey partner, are you sure you're tenured?
August 13, 2007... Byline: Edward Poll The recent headline in The Wall Street Journal would have been unthinkable a decade ago: "Partnership Is No Longer a Tenured Position." The accompanying article talked about the phenomenon of "de-equitization" --...

Andover firm's founder glad commute is over.(attorney Sara G. Schwartz, founding partner of Schwartz Hannum)(Interview)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The Alternate Route takes readers into law firms that have chosen to put down stakes outside of downtown Boston. This week, reporter Barbara Rabinovitz asks Sara G. Schwartz, founding partner of...

Commentary: Armenian eatery courts Worcester lawyers, judges.(Shiraz 259 Park Ave. Worcester)(Restaurant review)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Shiraz 259 Park Ave. Worcester(508) 767-1639 Lunch, Monday through Saturday I ask a Worcester attorney to recommend a restaurant that his downtown colleagues might patronize at lunchtime. When...

Verdicts & Settlements August 13, 2007: Landowner, town dispute best use and value of property.
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $201,000 settlement In January 2005, the defendant Town of North Reading took by eminent domain various parcels of land around Eisenhaures Pond for a park and conservation. The plaintiff...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court rules document sharing doesn't waive privilege.(Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Eric T. Berkman A defendant in a lawsuit did not waive the attorney-client privilege when its attorney shared documents with a co-defendant's counsel pursuant to an alleged joint defense agreement, the Supreme Judicial Court has...

Former critics pleased with Mass. Comm. Against Discrimination turnaround.(Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Noah Schaffer Just six months after promised changes at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, employment lawyers say there have been noticeable improvements in how the agency handles cases. In February, MCAD...

Mass. subprime suspects?(Massachusetts)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Noah Schaffer Earlier this year, the Attorney General's Office filed two lawsuits alleging a massive mortgage fraud ring that preyed on desperate homeowners facing foreclosure. According to the suits, the defendants deceived...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court rules excess carrier not bound by insurer's settlement.(Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Noah Schaffer A class-action settlement reached by a primary insurer was not binding on underwriters who issued an excess coverage policy, the Supreme Judicial Court has held in a case of first impression. The plaintiff...

Judicial Vacancies, Boston Municipal Court: August 13, 2007.(Brief article)(List)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff BOSTON MUNICIPAL COURT Deadline: Oct. 15, 2007 * Charlestown Division, judge DISTRICT COURT Deadline: Sept. 5, 2007 * Uxbridge District Court, clerk-magistrate Deadline:...

Notices from the Mass. Courts: August 13, 2007.(Massachusetts)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Probate & Family Court makes forms electronically accessible The Probate & Family Court is working to improve access to justice by providing fillable and self-calculating electronic versions...

Retired Mass. SJC Justice O'Connor dies at age 79.(retired Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Francis P. O'Connor)(Obituary)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Francis P. O'Connor, a retired Supreme Judicial Court justice who earned a reputation as a conservative on a liberal court, died Aug. 3 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. He was 79. ...

Massachusetts Legal Community Obituaries: August 13, 2007.(Obituary)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Richard S. Emmet, a lawyer and advocate for the environment, died July 27 at Emerson Hospital in Concord of complications from cancer surgery. He was 82. Born in New York City, Emmet attended...

Commentary: The evolving standard of liability under Chapter 93A.(Federal Trade Commission Act)(Law overview)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Michael C. Gilleran The Supreme Judicial Court in the last few years has given greater definition to the standard of liability under Chapter 93A, which for a couple of reasons had been in flux for a long period. First, the...

Mass. Appellate Tax Board Case Summaries: August 13, 2007.(Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Taxation Jurisdiction - Betterment Where the owners of land in Salisbury unsuccessfully sought an abatement of a sewer betterment assessed on their property, their appeal from an order...

Mass. Appeals Court Case Summaries: August 13, 2007.(Massachusetts Appeals Court)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Appeals Judgments affirmed Commonwealth v. Andrade (Lawyers Weekly No. 81-689-07) (8 pages) (possession of a class D substance with intent to distribute; drug violation near a school;...

Mass. Department of Industrial Accidents Case Summaries: August 13, 2007.(Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Workers' compensation Insurance - Cancellation Where an insurer cancelled an assigned risk policy mid-term, the cancellation cannot be given effect, as the insurer did not follow the...

Mass. Labor Relations Commission Case Summaries: August 13, 2007.(Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Labor Prohibited practice charge - Position postings Where a correctional officers' union claims that a sheriff's department has committed prohibited labor practices by not abiding by...

Verdicts & Settlements August 20, 2007: Driver suffers injuries when load falls from truck.(Case overview)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $2.85 million settlement On Oct. 11, 2001, the 60-year-old driver arrived at the defendant company -- a national manufacturer and supplier of structural steel products in Augusta, Maine -- to...

Verdicts & Settlements August 20, 2007: Company, co-founder caught up in contract dispute.(Brief article)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $4.95 million verdict The defendant/plaintiff-in-counterclaim prevailed on summary judgment against the company he co-founded, One to One Interactive, in a declaratory judgment action brought...

Verdicts & Settlements August 20, 2007: Welder sustains multiple injuries in crane mishap.(Case overview)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $1.15 million settlement On Oct. 1, 2003, the 39-year-old plaintiff welder was working on a construction site when he was hit in the left arm by a six-inch long steel pin that flew out of a...

Verdicts & Settlements August 20, 2007: Undetected glass shard leaves boy with nerve injury.
August 20, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $100,000 settlement On July 9, 2003, a 14-year-old restrained passenger in a car that was involved in a low-impact collision with a telephone pole sustained lacerations in his left axilla,...

Verdicts & Settlements August 20, 2007: Condo resident breaks ankle taking out trash.
August 20, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $200,000 settlement On Oct. 17, 2005, the plaintiff, a 36-year-old construction laborer, walked out the front door of his condominium intending to take trash to a dumpster situated at the far...

The Timepiece: August 17, 1992; August 21, 1995; August 17, 1998.
August 20, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The Timepiece is an occasional Hearsay feature that goes back in time to recall events in the Massachusetts legal-judicial community, as reported in previous issues of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly....

Moses on the move in Worcester.(life-size statue of Moses moved to a new location)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff To huzzahs from members of the Worcester bar and bench, a bigger-than-life-size statue of Moses, which has dominated the second-floor rotunda of the Worcester County Courthouse for nearly a...

Former food court in Worcestor to house Worcester County Registry of Deeds.
August 20, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff It wasn't so long ago that teenagers were downing hamburgers and pizza in the food court of the now-defunct Worcester Common Outlets mall. The mall, originally opened as the Worcester Galleria...

Help wanted: Mass. Probate & Family Court Department seeks chief justice.(Massachusetts Probate & Family Court)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The boilerplate newspaper ad about the forthcoming appointment of a new chief justice of the Probate & Family Court Department would be indistinguishable from the others announcing law-related job...