Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly articles from August 2008

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly archives from August 2008

Judgments affirmed by Massachusetts Appeals Court: August 4, 2008.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report The Appeals Court has affirmed, pursuant to Rule 1:28, judgments in the following cases. Although the decisions do not appear to address any substantive issues of law, the full text of each...

Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers Admonitions: August 4, 2008.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report SJC No. BD-2008-049 IN RE: OSAMWONYI EHI OSAGIEDE Last known address: 925 Washington Street - Suite 6 Dorchester, MA 02124 Order of Indefinite Suspension entered by the Board of...

The Big Picture: A good Buy.(Fletcher, Tilton & Whipple's Buy Worcester Now)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report With a 185-year-plus history to its credit, the Worcester law firm of Fletcher, Tilton & Whipple would appear to understand what keeps a business afloat. That understanding came into...

Commentary: The CJAM: a big mistake looming?(Chief Justice for Administration and Management)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Editorial The Supreme Judicial Court has announced that it is considering reappointing Chief Justice for Administration and Management Robert A. Mulligan to a second five-year term. If it decides...

Lawyers, judges recall Richard M. Egbert as one of generation's best criminal defense lawyers.(Obituary)
August 4, 2008... Byline: David E. Frank Members of the bar continued to express shock and sadness last week over the sudden death of legendary Boston attorney Richard M. Egbert. He was one of the very best trial lawyers I ever saw, said U.S. District...

Commentary: Do the right thing: In announcing a divorce, discretion better part of valor.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Gretchen Neels In Do the Right Thing, Boston-based consultant Gretchen Neels offers advice on professional etiquette and other behavioral issues that might arise in a law practice. Q. I find the very idea of sharing food at a...

Encore, encore: Mass. housing court judge steps down from bench to start new career.(William H. Abrashkin moves to Springfield Housing Authority)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report The notion of embarking on a second career after a long, fulfilling first one is being much discussed and written about these days as 78 million so-called baby boomers approach what was...

Active bar members: Boston attorneys work while walking and cycling in place.(Lowenstein Sandler)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report The new Boston office of Lowenstein Sandler appears to be marching to the beat of its own drummer. Not only are fresh organic fruits regularly delivered at its doorstep, but its...

Co. not liable for 'stealing' employee, rules U.S. District Court judge.
August 4, 2008... Byline: David E. Frank A technology staffing company accused of luring a systems administrator away from another employer could not be sued for aiding and abetting his breach of fiduciary duty, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled. ...

Mulligan's foes, fans eye Mass. Supreme Judicial Court as it mulls his reappointment.(Robert A. Mulligan)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz With less than two months until the Sept. 30 expiration of his term as chief justice for administration and management, Robert A. Mulligan is being vetted by the justices of the Supreme Judicial Court as he...

Commentary: We need to be smart on crime, but Jessica's Law isn't the answer.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Cynthia Stone Creem Being the only no vote on a crime bill named in memory of a little girl is a tough spot to be in for an elected official, but that is my situation after the Senate overwhelmingly passed Jessica's Law. For 10...

Massachusetts Lawyers in the News: August 4, 2008.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report New associations Elizabeth D. Katz has joined Ostrander Law Office in Northampton as an associate. Anne Marie Longobucco has joined Birnbaum & Godkin in Boston as counsel. ...

Commentary: There are some things a lawyer can guarantee.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Edward Poll No lawyer can ethically guarantee a result. To do so comes under Rule of Professional Conduct 7.1's prohibition of false or misleading communication, which the American Bar Association's commentary says includes...

Commentary: Marketing impact of speechmaking does not have to end at microphone.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Audra Callanan Speaking engagements are among the best ways to demonstrate expertise and to establish credibility. They require weeks of preparation to conduct research, craft program content and flow, and develop useful take-away...

Branching out: How solo practitioners can cope with sagging real estate market.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz Sole practitioners struggling with a sagging real estate market and the resultant decline in closings -- a staple of single-lawyer offices -- might take heart from the words of Martin V. Tomassian Jr. Keep it...

Commentary: Would Entwistle defense have worked with a different jury?(Neil Entwistle)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Robert S. Duboff and Nancy L. Neufer On its face, the recent Neil Entwistle murder case seemed like a slam dunk for the prosecution. Entwistle had told investigators he saw the dead bodies of his wife and baby daughter in their...

1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: August 4, 2008.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Employment ADEA - Pain and suffering Where a plaintiff brought suit under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act arguing that he suffered mental and emotional distress as a result of a...

U.S. District Court Case Summaries: August 4, 2008.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Employment Duty of loyalty- Aiding and abetting Where (1) one of the plaintiff's employees left to work for the defendant and (2) the plaintiff now seeks to hold the defendant liable for...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Case Summaries: August 4, 2008.(Massachusetts)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Attorneys Discipline - Indefinite suspension Where the Board of Bar Overseers has recommended that a respondent attorney be indefinitely suspended from the practice of law for, among other...

Mass. Appeals Court Case Summaries: August 4, 2008.(Massachusetts)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Civil practice Relief from judgment - Subdivision control Where a judgment after rescript entered on April 7, 2006, annulling the defendant planning board's approval of a subdivision, we...

Mass. Appeals Court Unpublished Case Summaries: August 4, 2008.(Massachusetts)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Attorneys Clients - Dental work Where a plaintiff orthodontist brought suit under G.L.c. 93A, claiming that the defendant attorney failed to pay for dental services rendered to the...

Mass. Superior Courts Case Summaries: August 4, 2008.(Massachusetts)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Contract Quantum meruit - Sewer work Where a plaintiff real estate seller has asserted a quantum meruit claim against the defendant buyer for the cost of sewer work, that claim must be...

District Court/BMC Appellate Division Case Summaries: August 4, 2008.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Insurance Agency - Policy procurement Where (1) an insurance company denied a plaintiff policyholder's claim for property damage caused by a broken pipe, (2) the plaintiff thereafter filed a...

Massachusetts Land Court Case Summaries: August 4, 2008.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Zoning Building permit - Amended by-law provisions Where the Brewster zoning board granted a defendant a building permit, the board erred, as the defendant is prevented from building by...

District Court/BMC Trial Division Case Summaries: August 4, 2008.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Jurisdiction Personal - Loan Where a defendant Maine resident has moved to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction a complaint by the plaintiff, his former employee, seeking repayment of a...

Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board Case Summaries: August 4, 2008.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Taxation Abatement - Valuation of home Where owners of a single-family home in Holyoke seek a real estate tax abatement, that request must be denied based on the homeowners' failure to show...

Mass. Division of Labor Relations Case Summaries: August 4, 2008.(Massachusetts)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Labor Prohibited practice - Police details Where the town of Burlington unilaterally changed the order in which it distributed paid police details, the town committed a labor law violation....

Verdicts & Settlements August 4, 2008: Woman fakes severity of injury, is caught on video.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report $287,000 defense award; plaintiff's case dismissed Ruling on defendants' motions for costs and attorneys' fees, the Berkshire Superior Court concluded that the plaintiff in a...

Verdicts & Settlements August 4, 2008: Two workers injured in doomed effort to modify crane.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report $2.7 million settlement Two employees were compensated $2.7 million for injuries suffered when a portable crane freewheeled while being hi-railed on subway tracks. The defendant was the...

Verdicts & Settlements August 4, 2008: Mother's healthy ovaries removed in lab mix-up.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report $315,000 settlement On May 27, 2005, a 48-year-old married woman and mother of a young child saw her obstetrician-gynecologist because of abnormal vaginal bleeding. An endometrial biopsy...

Verdicts & Settlements August 4, 2008: Woman undergoes surgery on wrong vertebra.(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report $315,000 settlement This case involved a 67-year-old woman with a long history of back pain. Her pain had become more constant and developed into severe buttock pain radiating down both...

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly most important opinions for August 4, 2008.
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report ADEA - Pain and suffering Where a plaintiff brought suit under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act arguing that he suffered mental and emotional distress as a result of a hostile...

The Big Picture: Human(e) services.(Michigan Department of Human Services)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report A large-scale pro bono effort by attorneys in the Boston office of McDermott, Will & Emery has yielded a similarly sized victory for abused and neglected children in Michigan. Last...

Attorneys are weighing in on the impact of anti-doc rulings by Mass. Supreme Judicial Court.(Massachusetts)
August 11, 2008... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz Lawyers on both sides of the medical-malpractice litigation aisle are reacting to a series of recent Supreme Judicial Court decisions dealing with physicians and medications -- some worriedly as they weigh the...

Defense tactic clears way for a major victory in class action in Mass.(Massachusetts)
August 11, 2008... Byline: David E. Frank A Boston litigator defending a case brought under the state's independent contractor statute says a seldom used strategy allowed his client to dodge a potentially costly class action lawsuit. Rather than waiting for...

No easy ride for woman in Boston.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Noah Schaffer On its face, the case looked like an unlikely candidate for trial. The plaintiff was standing on a Somerville street when an MBTA bus came barreling down the ice-covered roadway. The driver lost control of the...

Commentary: Summer thoughts: when a kiss is a crime, and a joke is criminal.(Revenge of the Nerds)
August 11, 2008... Byline: David Yas Three unrelated thoughts while waiting for about 100 people to get back from summer vacation so they can return my phone calls.... An interesting story developed this summer at the Minneapolis law firm of Lindquist &...

Mass. Judges Conference forms media outreach panel.(Massachusetts)(Brief article)
August 11, 2008... Byline: Noah Schaffer In the wake of criticism that the judiciary repeatedly has failed to tell its side of the story to the media, the Massachusetts Judges Conference has formed a panel of retired judges that will be available to comment...

Name-that-court contest in Springfield: Naming fights.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff A name-that-court contest is taking shape in Springfield as a brand-new federal courthouse nears completion and a projected Aug. 25 opening. The $70 million building -- which will house three...

Drink and drive.(golf courses prohibit serving alcoholic beverages)
August 11, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Chances are not too many golf enthusiasts are even aware that cracking open a brewski on the links is against the law. But to the surprise of many who have, on occasion, made their way through...

Opening in Greater Boston theaters on Aug. 22: Fans warm to 'Frozen'.(Frozen River)
August 11, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Little did Northeastern University School of Law graduates and now-spouses Donald A. Hartwood and Courtney C. Hunt know that, a quarter-century after their graduation, they would see their names in...

Verdicts & Settlements August 11, 2008: Child, born brain-damaged, dies at 20 months.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff $2 million settlement This case involved the death of a 20-month-old baby boy from consequences of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy inflicted at birth. The defendants were an obstetrical resident, two...

Verdicts & Settlements August 11, 2008: Roofer injured in fall from faulty ladder staging.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff $5 million verdict, $385,000 settlement The plaintiff was a 22-year-old trade school graduate working as a roofer at a construction site in Kingston when he fell from ladder staging that had been...

Verdicts & Settlements August 11, 2008: Tenants recoup money paid to unlicensed broker.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $200,000 settlement The plaintiffs were required to pay a finder's fee of one month's rent to the defendant agent, who held herself out as a licensed real estate saleswoman employed by the...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court panel seeks comments on revised rule on sentencing.(Massachusetts)
August 11, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff NOTICE The Supreme Judicial Court's Standing Advisory Committee on the Rules of Criminal Procedure invites comments on proposed amendments to Rule 31 of the Massachusetts Rules of Criminal...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court soliciting amicus briefs or memoranda.(Massachusetts)
August 11, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT IS SOLICITING AMICUS BRIEFS OR MEMORANDA FROM INTERESTED PARTIES IN THE FOLLOWING MATTER PENDING BEFORE THE COURT. ARGUMENT IS TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER....

Commentary: Risk-free business: Professional liability coverage can be matter of hits and myths.
August 11, 2008... Byline: William C. Saturley and Joseph S. Callanan Risk-Free Business is an occasional feature intended as a guide for lawyers on the topic of professional liability insurance. There are at least 10 common misapprehensions about...

Commentary: Collaboration, communication forge client loyalty.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Edward Poll Lawyers have a tendency to focus on the task at hand without communicating their actions to clients. They may be doing a great job with documents, the courts or the opposing parties, but the clients are never told. ...

Commentary: Nationwide class actions in Massachusetts courts.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Jo Ann Shotwell Kaplan By Jo Ann Shotwell Kaplan The jurisdiction of Massachusetts courts over nationwide class actions remains subject to challenge despite a recent decision of the Supreme Judicial Court addressing the issue....

Mass. Lawyers in the News: August 11, 2008.(Massachusetts)
August 11, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff New associations Peter J. Caruso and Paul D. Creme have joined the Boston law firm of Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye. Caruso is a partner in the intellectual property and Internet law and media...

1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: August 11, 2008.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff Commercial Cable television - 'Digital cable filters' Where a plaintiff cable television provider charged the defendants with violating the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984, 47 U.S.C. s.553(a)(1),...

U.S. District Court Case Summaries: August 11, 2008.(Massachusetts)
August 11, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff Employment Discrimination - Disability Where a plaintiff driver employed by the defendant filed a disability discrimination complaint, the employer must be awarded summary judgment as to the claims under...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Case Summaries: August 11, 2008.(Massachusetts)
August 11, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff Editor's note: The full text of these decisions can be found on Lawyers Weekly's website, www.masslawyersweekly.com Attorneys Legal malpractice - Innocence of client Where a plaintiff -- who (1) was...

Mass. Appeals Court Case Summaries: August 11, 2008.(Massachusetts)
August 11, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff Editor's note: The full text of these decisions can be found on Lawyers Weekly's website, www.masslawyersweekly.com Real property Removal of timber - Damages Where a Land Court judge found that the...

Mass. Appeals Court Unpublished Case Summaries: August 11, 2008.(Massachusetts)
August 11, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff Following are summaries of decisions issued by the Appeals Court pursuant to Rule 1:28. In reporting these unpublished decisions, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly reminds readers that they may be cited for...

Mass. Superior Court Case Summaries: August 11, 2008.(Massachusetts)
August 11, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff Search and seizure Handguns - Automobile Where the defendants have moved to suppress two handguns found by the police in an automobile, I conclude that the motion must be denied because the vehicle was...

District Court/BMC Appellate Division Case Summaries: August 11, 2008.
August 11, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff Damages Lease - Affidavits - Counsel fees Where (1) a plaintiff brought this action for breach of an office equipment lease, (2) the lessee was defaulted and (3) a judgment was entered against the...

Mass. Land Court Case Summaries: August 11, 2008.(Massachusetts)
August 11, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff Zoning Special permit - Communication tower Where plaintiff has challenged the defendant Easton zoning board's grant of a special permit and variances to a codefendant company for construction of a...

Mass. Appellate Tax Board Case Summaries: August 11, 2008.(Massachusetts)
August 11, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff Taxation Sales and use taxes - 'Indirect cost items' Where an appellant government contractor sought an abatement of sales and use taxes, that request was correctly denied by the appellee Commissioner of...

Mass. Division of Labor Relations Case Summaries: August 11, 2008.(Massachusetts)
August 11, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff Mass. Division of Labor Relations Labor Prohibited practice charges - Decertification petition Were a union claims that two prohibited practice charges bar further processing of a certain...

Mass. Commission Against Discrimination Case Summaries: August 11, 2008.(Massachusetts)(Brief article)
August 11, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff Employment Retaliation Where a complainant was laid off after filing an administrative complaint against the respondent employer, the complainant was retaliated against and should be awarded back pay plus...

Judgments affirmed by Mass. Court of Appeals.(Massachusetts)
August 18, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The Appeals Court has affirmed, pursuant to Rule 1:28, judgments in the following cases. Although the decisions do not appear to address any substantive issues of law, the full text of each...

Mass. Superior Court rules union benefit lien not preempted by ERISA.(Massachusetts )
August 18, 2008... Byline: Eric T. Berkman A union's attempt to enforce a mechanic's lien on money that a contractor failed to pay into pension and health benefits funds was not preempted by ERISA, a Superior Court judge has ruled in a case of first...

Speculating, lobbying on next Mass. Supreme Judicial Court judge in full swing.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz Barely one year after Margot G. Botsford was sworn in as Gov. Deval L. Patrick's choice to fill an open seat on the Supreme Judicial Court, the judicial-legal grapevine is once again shaking with speculation...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court: Proposed BBO rules allow broader discovery.(Board of Bar Overseers)
August 18, 2008... Byline: Julia Reischel The Supreme Judicial Court has released proposed revisions to the rules governing the Board of Bar Overseers and Office of Bar Counsel that call for more discovery and less delay in disciplinary proceedings. ...

Commentary: Hopes for '07-'08 session fade in face of fiscal, political realities.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Martin W. Healy Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second. Baltasar Gracian, Spanish Jesuit priest (1601-1658) At the end of July, during the closing weeks of the 2007-2008 session, legislators witnessed action...

Union Club of Boston: Professional Curtis-y.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff It's all very hush-hush, as is much about the exclusive, reclusive Union Club of Boston. And so, quietly, in keeping with the club's rarefied atmosphere, several members of the downtown Boston bar...

Assistant district attorneys in Worcester County: Badge of honor.(Brief article)
August 18, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Assistant district attorneys in Worcester County are now sporting spiffy new badges, courtesy of drug-forfeiture money. Timothy Connolly, a spokesman for District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr.,...

Maine attorney Gordon C. Ayer: Called to account.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Although the Plymouth County divorce case that pitted Margaret Spenlinhauer against her husband, John Spenlinhauer III, ended in 2005, the drama for one of the lawyers involved is only just...

Verdicts & Settlements August 18, 2008: Woman dies after complications from elective surgery.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff On May 9, 2001, a 30-year-old woman was admitted to Brockton Hospital where she underwent elective thyroid surgery by the defendant surgeon. At approximately 11:35 a.m., immediately upon waking up,...

Verdicts & Settlements August 18, 2008: Worker thrown from forklift rendered quadriplegic.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff A jury found that a forklift manufacturer was not liable for a 1999 tip-over accident in which the operator suffered catastrophic injuries and lived seven years as a quadriplegic. U.S....

Verdicts & Settlements August 18, 2008: Woman needs mastectomy despite early mammogram.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $350,000 settlement In May 2002, a 53-year-old woman presented to the defendant for an annual physical examination. The record indicates that the plaintiff reported feeling some linear lumps...

Verdicts & Settlements August 18, 2008: Passenger's legs crushed in truck convoy mishap.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff On Oct. 27, 2004, the plaintiff was a passenger in a flag car positioned at the rear of the second of six tractor-trailers traveling from Plainville to Colrain. The convoy was transporting concrete...

Mass. BBO, bar counsel seek comments on rule changes.(Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers and Office of Bar Counsel)
August 18, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The Board of Bar Overseers and the Office of Bar Counsel Invite Comments on Proposed Revisions to Supreme Judicial Court Rule 4:01 and the Rules of the Board of Bar Overseers. The Board of...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court soliciting amicus briefs.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT IS SOLICITING AMICUS BRIEFS OR MEMORANDA FROM INTERESTED PARTIES IN THE FOLLOWING MATTER PENDING BEFORE THE COURT. ARGUMENT IS TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER,...

Chapter 3 of Mass. Supreme Judicial Court rules amended, effective Sept. 1.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS At the Supreme Judicial Court holden at Boston within and for said Commonwealth on the twenty-second day of July, in the year two thousand and eight: present, ...

How to ... use LinkedIn.(Interview)
August 18, 2008... Byline: Noah Schaffer Many attorneys have likely received invitations from other lawyers to join a LinkedIn network. In a short period of time, LinkedIn has become a highly popular networking resource on the Internet. Lawyers Weekly's...

Commentary: The bottom line on the cost of associate loyalty.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Edward Poll Lawyers and law firms that find themselves faced with more business than they can reasonably handle (assume we're talking normal times and not today's twilight zone conditions) may decide to add a new associate. These...

Commentary: Legal administrators worth their weight in billable hours.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Karen Glowacki The job of administering a law firm may seem at times to resemble the herding of cats, but that's just one of the many skills needed in a professional legal administrator. That administrator can manage your firm,...

1st U.S. Circuit Court Case Summaries: August 18, 2008.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff 1st U.S. CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS Editor's note: The full text of these decisions can be found on Lawyers Weekly's website, www.masslawyersweekly.com Employment Retaliation - ERISA Where a defendant...

Commentary: Location, location, location ... what happens.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Gordon P. Katz The parties' agreement requires arbitration. But where? Many, if not most, arbitration agreements identify where the parties' arbitration will be held. Identification of arbitral venue is usually found in the...

Massachusetts Lawyers in the News: August 18, 2008.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff New associations James W. Lawson has joined the Boston law firm of Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye as a partner in the litigation practice group. Robert H. Underwood has joined the Boston...

U.S. District Court Case Summaries: August 18, 2008.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff U.S. DISTRICT COURT Commercial Credit card account - TILA Where a defendant credit card company amended the terms of the plaintiff's cardmember agreement so that, in the event of a default, the interest...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Case Summaries: August 18, 2008.
August 18, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff U.S. BANKRUPTCY COURT Bankruptcy Tax refunds - Estate property Where a Chapter 7 debtor and his codefendant wife have received federal and state tax refunds for 2007, half of the amount of the refund...