Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly articles from October 2008

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly archives from October 2008

Dash for the cash: Mass. lawyers donate to presidential candidates.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report With the presidential election only four weeks from tomorrow, Massachusetts lawyers are stepping up to the respective candidates' campaign-cash windows with generous donations for each. ...

Relatively obscure Mass. law firms handling most foreclosures in state.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Julia Reischel Hours before her Taunton home was slated to be sold in a foreclosure auction, 53-year-old Carlene Balderrama shot herself to death. The suicide note she left instructed her family to take the [life] insurance money...

Ruling by Massachusetts Appeals Court expands liability of stores.
October 6, 2008... Byline: David E. Frank Civil litigators say a recent dram shop decision marks the first time an appellate court in Massachusetts has expanded the duty of care that store owners owe the public when they are found to have sold alcohol to...

No broker's fee after sale goes unconsummated, rules Appellate Division of Mass. District Court.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Thomas E. Egan A property owner who failed to proceed with the sale of her store to a ready, willing and able buyer could not be ordered to pay her broker a commission in the absence of a binding purchase and sale agreement, the...

Commentary: Welcome to the crossroads: life lessons for lawyers and all of us.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Editorial The calendar is cruel to me today. But it doesn't lie. Oct. 6, 2008: precisely 40 years to the date when yours truly burst onto the scene at Boston's Lying-In Hospital. With...

Massachusetts Superior Court denies fee over 'threshold' failure.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Thomas E. Egan A discharged attorney who did not reach a $75,000 fee threshold is not entitled to a contingency-fee share after his replacement counsel settled on behalf of the clients, a Superior Court judge has ruled. The...

Comments sought on Mass. Supreme Judicial Court, Board of Bar Overseers rule changes.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Paul Lamoureux The Board of Bar Overseers is seeking comment on proposed revisions to Supreme Judicial Court Rule 3:01 and the Rules of the Board of Bar Examiners, which are intended to further define and clarify the procedures for...

Massachusetts Appeals Court affirms rehiring of 3 teachers.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report The Appeals Court has ruled that three tenured public school teachers in Lowell -- two Cambodian-Americans and one Puerto Rican -- had been improperly dismissed under procedures that failed...

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly News Briefs: October 6, 2008.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Big Dig death suit is settled for $28M The family of a woman who died when a Big Dig tunnel ceiling collapsed has settled a wrongful death lawsuit for more than $28 million. Milena...

Parishioners' appeal denied by Massachusetts Appeals Court.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report The Appeals Court has rejected an appeal by a Framingham church that has been fighting its closing by the Boston Archdiocese for three years. The court, ruling in the case involving St....

Mass. Bar Association experiencing further unrest.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report The Massachusetts Bar Association, already in the throes of a controversy involving Executive Director Marilyn J. Wellington, appears to be experiencing further unrest. Two at-large members...

Disempanelment of Massachusetts Appeals Court.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report After two years of service as a recall judge on the Appeals Court, Christopher J. Armstrong finally took his leave last month and officially retired. His departure coincided with the...

Verdicts & Settlements October 6, 2008: Rape at island resort reveals security shortcomings.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report $1.1 million settlement The plaintiff, a 48-year-old woman on a visit to the Cayman Islands, was walking back to her lodging late at night. An unknown man driving a van stopped twice to...

Verdicts & Settlements October 6, 2008: Elderly man struck by van suffers 'brain death'.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report $575,000 settlement On Oct. 2, 2007, a 71-year-old man was walking along a side street in Lexington. The defendant, 23, was backing a van out of the driveway of the home where he lived....

Verdicts & Settlements October 6, 2008: Driver severely injured in accident on Turnpike.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report $575,000 settlement On March 16, 2006, the 33-year old plaintiff was exiting the Massachusetts Turnpike in Springfield when his car was struck broadside by a delivery truck operated by...

Commentary: (d)emocracy is alive in Middlesex County.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Editorial Former Probate Register John R. Buonomo made headlines recently when he allegedly was caught stealing money from copy and cash machines at the Middlesex County Registry of Deeds. But...

Commentary: 'Iannacchino': a retreat on Chapter 93A?
October 6, 2008... Byline: Martin J. Newhouse A recent decision by the Supreme Judicial Court brings up many questions about the SJC's interpretation of the state's consumer protection law. The ruling in Iannacchino v. Ford Motor Co., 451 Mass. 623...

Massachusetts Lawyers in the News: October 6, 2008.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report New associations Neil L. Cohen has joined Woodman & Eaton in Concord as an associate in the trusts and estates section. Scott J. Eriksen has joined the Andover office of Devine Millimet...

1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: October 6, 2008.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Civil rights Smoke shop raid - Dismissal Where (1) plaintiff members of the Narragansett Indian Tribe brought suit under 42 U.S.C. s.1983 claiming that Rhode Island state officials,...

U.S. District Court Case Summaries: October 6, 2008.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Criminal Limitations - Suspension - Wartime Where defendants have moved to dismiss an indictment as untimely, the motion must be denied pursuant to the Wartime Suspension of Limitations...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Case Summaries: October 6, 2008.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Bankruptcy Nonparty - Jurisdiction Where a Chapter 13 debtor's mother, having co-signed a loan, has brought claims against the defendant lender, those claims must be dismissed for lack of...

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Case Summaries: October 6, 2008.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Criminal First-degree murder - Right to confrontation Where a defendant has appealed his first-degree murder conviction, we hold that the appeal must fail because: (1) the defendant's right...

Massachusetts Appeals Court Case Summaries: October 6, 2008.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Unemployment compensation News carrier Where (1) a trial judge granted a plaintiff news carrier unemployment benefits and (2) the defendant newspaper appealed, we hold that the benefit grant...

Massachusetts Appeals Court Unpublished Case Summaries: October 6, 2008.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Following are the summaries of decisions issued by the Appeals Court pursuant to Rule 1:28. In reporting these unpublished decisions, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly reminds readers that the...

Massachusetts Superior Court Case Summaries: October 6, 2008.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Employment Non-solicitation clause - Competitor Where a plaintiff corporation alleges that the defendant, a former executive, breached his fiduciary duty in connection with his move to a...

District Court/BMC Appellate Division Case Summaries: October 6, 2008.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Contract Real estate commission - Lack of P&S agreement Where a plaintiff broker commenced an action to recover for the defendant's alleged breach of a listing agreement and violation of...

Massachusetts Land Courts Case Summaries: October 6, 2008.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Real property Road - Discontinuance Where a plaintiff landowner claims that the defendants do not have a right to use Tower Mountain Road in Hancock, that claim must be rejected because the...

Massachusetts Housing Court Case Summaries: October 6, 2008.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Tort Fraud - Consumer protection Where a defendant has moved to dismiss fraud and consumer protection claims filed against it by a plaintiff, I find that the motion should be denied because...

Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board Case Summaries: October 6, 2008.
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Taxation Real estate - Sale price Where the owner of an unheated seasonal cottage has requested a real estate tax abatement, the request must be denied in light of the owner's inability to...

Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination Case Summaries: October 6, 2008.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Employment Hostile work environment - Race Where a complainant employee was subjected to a racially hostile work environment, the respondents (the employer and its owner) must be held...

Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents Case Summaries: October 6, 2008.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Workers' compensation Benefit discontinuance Where an insurer sought to discontinue an employee's workers' compensation benefits as of the date of the impartial medical examination, Feb. 21,...

Other Massachusetts Agencies Case Summaries: October 6, 2008.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Elections Local union PAC - Payroll deductions Where it has been proposed (1) that individual employees sign an appropriate authorization from their employer to make a payroll deduction of...

1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: October 13, 2008.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Attorneys Lien - Patent prosecution Where a law firm filed a claim in a bankruptcy case claiming to be owed $108,737.11, secured by an attorney's lien under G.L.c. 221, s.50, for unpaid...

U.S. District Court Case Summaries: October 13, 2008.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Insurance Attorney - Notice of claim - Fraud Where a plaintiff attorney claims that the defendant insurance companies failed to investigate, indemnify, and defend him as provided for in...

U.S. Magistrate Judges Case Summaries: October 13, 2008.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Criminal Drunk driving - Park ranger's legal advice Where a 20-year-old defendant has appealed his conviction for refusing a breath test, claiming that he was given incorrect legal advice...

Bankruptcy Appellate Panel Case Summaries: October 13, 2008.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Bankruptcy Federal tax lien - Filing Where a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge overruled the debtors' objection to the secured claim of the Internal Revenue Service, that decision should not be...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Case Summaries: October 13, 2008.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Bankruptcy Motion to reopen - Discharge injunction Where a Chapter 7 debtor has filed a motion to reopen her bankruptcy case for the purpose of commencing an adversary proceeding to enforce...

Massachusetts Appeals Court Case Summaries: October 13, 2008.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Civil practice Certiorari - Disposal works construction permit Where (1) a board of health granted a disposal works construction project pursuant to Title 5 of the State Environmental Code...

Massachusetts Appeals Court Unpublished Case Summaries: October 13, 2008.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Following are the summaries of decisions issued by the Appeals Court pursuant to Rule 1:28. In reporting these unpublished decisions, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly reminds readers that the...

Mass. Superior Courts Case Summaries: October 13, 2008.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Insurance Submission to referees Where a plaintiff never made any request that his dispute with the defendant insurance companies over the amount of a loss be submitted to referees (as...

District Court/BMC Appellate Division Case Summaries: October 13, 2008.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Contract Advertising - Exclusivity Where (1) a judgment has been entered for the plaintiff radio station owner on a claim that the defendant failed to pay for advertisements that ran on the...

District Court/BMC Trial Division Case Summaries: October 13, 2008.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Criminal Leaving scene of accident Where a defendant has moved for dismissal of a charge that she left the scene of a motor vehicle accident after causing personal injury, I find that the...

It's not easy being green: green-construction lawsuits increasing.(Massachusetts)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Dick Dahl The meteoric rise of the green-building industry seems like a feel-good tale suited for the Disney Channel. Builders, contractors and tenants all want to be part of projects that are energy efficient. Owners find that...

Mass. Board of Bar Overseers sanction vs. partners alarming news for big firms.
October 13, 2008... Byline: David E. Frank With large law firms facing the increasingly difficult task of monitoring client conflict checks, lawyers are raising concerns over a recent Board of Bar Overseers decision that found an international firm's good...

Lawyers: during financial meltdown, task of crisis control critical.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz It was 7:30 on the morning of Monday, Sept. 15, less than six hours after Lehman Brothers met its demise in a New York bankruptcy court, when Edwards, Angell, Palmer & Dodge partner George Tichnor had a chance...

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly News Briefs: October 13, 2008.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report Boston lawyer named to Bankruptcy Court Frank J. Bailey, chairman of the litigation department at Sherin & Lodgen in Boston, has been appointed to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court where he...

Massachusetts Lawyers in the News: October 13, 2008.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report New associations Hanify & King has opened an office in New York City to support the firm's New York-based clients and to facilitate growth of H&K's practice in complex litigation. Paul...

Verdicts & Settlements October 13, 2008: Condo owners unwittingly pay neighbor's gas bill.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report $230,408 verdict The plaintiff was the board of trustees of a 167-unit condominium that brought a collection action against the defendant for failure to pay gas utility charges. The...

Verdicts & Settlements October 13, 2008: Family of accident victim sues auto leasing company.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report $1.124 million verdict On Nov. 25, 2002, the defendant, a lease and rental business, leased a 2000 Dodge Neon to a woman who did not have the money to buy a car and who borrowed the...

Verdicts & Settlements October 13, 2008: Second spinal procedure results in permanent pain.(Brief article)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report $1.1 million settlement On Dec. 4, 2001, the plaintiff, 33, underwent a lumbar spinal fusion for a herniated L4-L5 disc. Ten months earlier, the plaintiff had undergone an unsuccessful...

Lawyers, experts would do well to keep IP trials 'jury-friendly'.(TrialLab's litigation consultant Dennis V. Thompson)(Interview)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Justin Rebello They're complicated, impersonal, unsexy and, most of all, rare. Intellectual property trials present a variety of challenges for attorneys, not the least of which is explaining complex issues to 12 men and women off...

Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers Admonitions: October 13, 2008.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Report The following summaries were compiled by the Board of Bar Overseers based on the record of proceedings before the board. BBO Public Reprimand No. 2008-17 IN RE: JOHN W. HUMPHRIES JR. ...

Commentary: are you a business collaborator, or just a lawyer?
October 13, 2008... Byline: Edward Poll In a recent coaching session, an attorney spoke to me about his frustration when he and several colleagues paid a visit to a prospective client. The lawyers were prepared to make a full presentation about the services...

Commentary: Networking at social events a juggling act.(Brief article)
October 13, 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. Please tell me how to eat, drink, shake...

Commentary: technologically savvy attorneys may never have metadata they like.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Henry B. Chace Lawyers produce documents and files, spreadsheets and presentations in electronic format, which are shared with clients, colleagues, the courts and many other sources. Attorneys labor to make sure that the files and...

Commentary: Limiting the Mass. Appellate Division's jurisdiction.
October 13, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Editorial A good number of civil litigants who lose their cases in the District and Boston Municipal courts are entitled to appeal to the Appellate Division of the District Court. Then, with...

Commentary: what if Manny were a Massachusetts lawyer?(baseball player Manny Ramirez)
October 13, 2008... Byline: David E. Frank Let me start off by stating the obvious: I need to get a life. Three months have passed since Manny Ramirez forced his way out of town, and I'm still profoundly bitter. As Manny leads the Dodgers through the...

The Cowins: like parents, like daughter.(Massachusetts)
October 13, 2008... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz Forty-five years ago, William J. Cowin was a young public-service lawyer making his way from the Attorney General's Office, where he had been an assistant AG under Edward W. Brooke, to the State House where he...

Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers Admonitions: October 20, 2008.
October 18, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff SJC No. BD-2008-048 IN RE: MICHAEL P. MURRAY Last known address: 300 West Main Street, Bldg. B Northborough, MA 01532 Memorandum of decision entered by Botsford, J., on August 21, 2008...

Making the (pay) grade: Associate base salary won't decrease in bad economy.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz As the aftershocks from the economic earthquake that rocked Wall and Main streets a month ago continue to reverberate through the financial system, Boston's State Street and environs, where many a...

Judge finds Boston lawyer can't steal from partnership.
October 20, 2008... Byline: David E. Frank A judge has dismissed a seven-count larceny indictment against a Boston lawyer after finding that an attorney cannot steal partnership money from his colleagues. Philip D. Giordano was accused in 2007 of stealing...

Commentary: The new rules and regs of air travel.(regulations)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The latest legal battle concerning the airlines may have nothing to do with regulation, rates or even free peanuts. It may involve dirty pictures cropping up on your laptop. Airlines that have...

Massachusetts attorneys leaving fingerprints on Bank of America checks.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Lawyers looking to cash checks at Bank of America might want to think about taking their business elsewhere, unless they're comfortable getting their hands dirty. Charles E. Marion recently...

Dog-ged pursuit: Boston lawyer details fight over a golden named Dux.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff As a partner in the divorce and family group of Boston's Burns & Levinson, Barbra I. Black has seen her share of pitched battles over who should have what property. But few can match the ferocity...

(B)logging onto the campaign: 3 law students launch presidential debate blog site.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The presidential and vice presidential debates of this 2008 campaign season have come on the air for millions to view and/or listen to and have hardly gone unnoticed, especially on a dryly named...

Verdicts & Settlements October 20, 2008: Delayed C-section blamed for child's brain damage.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $4.85 million settlement In 1998, the minor plaintiff's mother was a 21-year-old woman expecting the birth of her first child on July 16. On June 29, the mother was sent to the hospital...

Verdicts & Settlements October 20, 2008: Bike courier fractures skull in traffic accident.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $325,000 settlement On May 19, 2006, the plaintiff, a professional bicycle courier, was riding in downtown Boston when he was struck by the defendant's car, knocking him to the ground. ...

Commentary: Binding mediation: a nearly perfect imperfect solution.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Russell Beck No dispute resolution procedure is perfect. Litigation is expensive, protracted, public and risky. Arbitration has become essentially a private litigation with most of its attendant ills, and, even when conducted...

Commentary: Write On: Back to basics: clarity, completeness key to good writing.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Julie Baker and Lisa Healy (Write On provides guidance for attorneys on writing legal memoranda and briefs.) Welcome back to Write On. The new school year has begun, and to make sure that you didn't forget everything over...

Commentary: Today's world needs more 'strategic lawyers'.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Edward Poll Late in July, the Wall Street firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft announced its second round of lawyer layoffs this year, for a total of more than 130 attorneys dismissed. The firm said that 90 percent of the layoffs...

Commentary: Why attorneys should care about the income-tax repeal.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Lawyers, in particular, should be paying close attention to Question 1 on the Nov. 4 ballot, which would dramatically reduce the state income tax. As it struggles with its current budget, deep...

Commentary: A word to the wise about payments to experts.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Thomas E. Peisch With a $75 million payment and a deferred prosecution agreement finalized, the tawdry history of the New York-based Milberg Weiss law firm appears at an end. Four Milberg Weiss senior partners now stand convicted...

Verdicts & Settlements October 20, 2008: Elective procedure results in need for pacemaker.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $4.37 million verdict The plaintiff contracted with the defendant, chief of arrhythmia service, to perform her AV Nodal Re-entrant Tachycardia ablation. The chief was board-certified in...

1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: October 20, 2008.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Search and seizure Police interrogation - Lack of warnings Where a defendant entered a conditional guilty plea to a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm, reserving the right to appeal...

U.S. District Court Case Summaries: October 20, 2008.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Employment Discrimination - Race Where plaintiffs have filed a putative class action alleging that the defendant employers systematically discriminate against African-American employees, in...

U.S. Magistrate Judges Court Case Summaries: October 20, 2008.(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Labor Overtime - Police officer Where a police officer claims that he is entitled to overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act, I find that this federal law claim should be dismissed because...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Case Summaries: October 20, 2008.(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Automatic stay - Criminal exception Where a Chapter 7 debtor alleges that a defendant district attorney and a codefendant lieutenant in the Massachusetts State Police violated the...

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Orders: October 20, 2008.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Further appellate review granted: PAUL CORNELL vs. BOARD OF APPEALS OF DRACUT & another. Reported below: 72 Mass. App. Ct. 390 (2008). Further appellate review denied: ADOPTION OF EDDIE (and...

Massachusetts Appeals Court Case Summaries: October 20, 2008.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Parent and child Custody - Modification Where (1) a divorce decree awarded custody of the couple's son and daughter to the mother, (2) the father later filed a complaint for modification requesting...

Massachusetts Appeals Court Unpublished Case Summaries: October 20, 2008.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Following are the summaries of decisions issued by the Appeals Court pursuant to Rule 1:28. In reporting these unpublished decisions, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly reminds readers that the decisions...

Massachusetts Superior Court Case Summaries: October 20, 2008.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Larceny charges - Attorney Where a defendant attorney, who was a member of a law partnership, has been charged with larceny for allegedly drawing compensation checks to himself in excess...

Massachusetts Land Court Case Summaries: October 20, 2008.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Zoning Denial of variance requests Where the defendant Edgartown Board of Health has denied a plaintiff's application for variances from Title 5 of the State Environmental Code, the Town of...

Massachusetts Land Court Case Summaries: October 20, 2008.
October 20, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Zoning Denial of variance requests Where the defendant Edgartown Board of Health has denied a plaintiff's application for variances from Title 5 of the State Environmental Code, the Town of...

Massachusetts District Court/BMC Trial Division Case Summaries: October 20, 2008.(Brief article)
October 20, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Employment Victims of Violent Crime Compensation Act - Verification of wages Where a plaintiff, who was struck by a drunk driver and hospitalized for more than two weeks, has filed a claim for lost...