Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly articles from September 2008

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly archives from September 2008

Judgments affirmed by Mass. Court of Appeals: September 1, 2008.(Massachusetts)
September 1, 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...

Important Massachusetts Opinions Preview: September 1, 2008.
September 1, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Insurance Maritime - Breach of contract Where, in a maritime insurance case, the judge did not apply the prevailing view (in both federal law and state maritime insurance law) that a...

U.S. District Court rules police OT can be cut.(overtime)
September 1, 2008... Byline: David E. Frank The attorney representing a town in a lawsuit filed by police officers seeking up to $1.5 million in overtime pay says a U.S. District Court judge's ruling clarifies, for the first time, what steps must be taken to...

Employment lawyers wrestle with clients' concerns about jobs, profits.
September 1, 2008... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz With employers fretting over shrinking profits and employees inundated by the resultant waves of layoffs, there may be little cause to celebrate this Labor Day. Attorneys who represent employers say that,...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court overturns ruling on GPS monitoring.(Global Positioning System)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The Supreme Judicial Court has upheld the right of county sheriffs to allow certain inmates to serve portions of their sentences at home wearing GPS monitoring devices, rebuffing a judge who said...

Norfolk County Judge Angela M. Ordonez: On her honor.
September 1, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff A judge has learned that honesty with the Governor's Council is not always the best policy for securing its members' unanimous support for a judicial nomination. When Probate & Family Court...

Bristol County: Sutter's folly?(Samuel Sutter)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff At first glance, the brief help-wanted ad looks like just another appeal for applicants for a prosecutorial post. But a closer reading of Bristol County District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter's...

Mass. Judge Ernest B. Murphy: Unentitled.(Massachusetts)
September 1, 2008... If at least one sitting member of the Governor's Council has her way, the saga of soon-to-be erstwhile Judge Ernest B. Murphy may be far from over. When the Supreme Judicial Court accepted the embattled Superior Court judge's decision last...

Mass. Governor's Council: Runners, take your mark.(Massachusetts)
September 1, 2008... Byline: Julia Reischel The much-derided elected body that approves judicial appointments in Massachusetts will face its most-contested election primary in years when seven of the eight incumbents who sit on the Governor's Council battle...

Local sports disputes play out in federal court.
September 1, 2008... Byline: David E. Frank The federal courts have been busy this summer handling a slew of local sports-related controversies. Among them: No girls allowed Elaine Joyce never thought a lawsuit would land her on the pages of Sports...

Despite roadblocks, Big Dig lawyer in Boston finds way to build new relationship.(Bradley M. Henry)
September 1, 2008... Byline: Julia Reischel Two months after Bradley M. Henry went on his first date with Lauren E. Woodward in 2006, Milena Del Valle was crushed to death by a ceiling panel in the I-90 connector tunnel. From that moment on, Henry, a...

Boston Attorney Weds: Domestic Relations.(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Rachel E. Hershfang, a senior trial lawyer in the Boston office of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Wesley V. Williams, an English teacher, were married earlier this summer in a ceremony...

Verdicts & Settlements September 1, 2008: Technician slips on worn stairway, injures back.(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $1.875 million verdict The plaintiff was an HVAC technician for a company performing renovation work on a building that was being converted into a day-care center. The work involved the...

Verdicts & Settlements September 1, 2008: Father spends daughter's trust money on cars, drugs.
September 1, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $1.8 million settlement In 1999, the 9-year-old minor plaintiff recovered a judgment in a medical-malpractice lawsuit. Her attorney forwarded a check for more than $2.4 million, representing...

Verdicts & Settlements September 1, 2008: Residents leap for their lives as fire destroys home.
September 1, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $450,000 settlement A fire occurred in the early morning hours of Aug. 2, 2004, at a two-family house in Springfield where two families were living as tenants. The premises contained only one...

Bar Counsel Constance V. Vecchione in Mass.: How to ... split up a law practice.(Interview)
September 1, 2008... Byline: Noah Schaffer When lawyers decide to leave their partners, they face the challenge of alerting their clients. If the lawyer is leaving to practice elsewhere, conflicts can ensue over who should continue to work on which active case...

Commentary: Why no one dreams of becoming managing partner.
September 1, 2008... Byline: Edward Poll In years past it was a cliche that children dreamed of becoming president of the United States when they grew up. That's likely still the case to some extent, but given today's gigantic salaries in segments of corporate...

Hire Calling : Virtual paralegal in a virtual work world of one's own.(Interview)
September 1, 2008... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz Hire Calling is a feature about hiring decisions and related employment matters. This week, Lawyers Weekly's Barbara Rabinovitz speaks with virtual paralegal Dawn M. Draper, 39, of Traverse City, Mich., about the...

Commentary: Managing electronic-discovery consultants and vendors wisely.
September 1, 2008... Byline: James J. Marcellino and Margaret M. Carleen Some sources estimate that the e-discovery consultant market is presently $3 billion and growing. Close attorney supervision, good communication and strategic foresight remain...

1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: September 1, 2008.
September 1, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weeky Staff Editor's note: The full text of these decisions can be found on Lawyers Weekly's website, www.masslawyersweekly.com. Insurance Maritime - Breach of contract Where, in a maritime insurance case, the judge...

U.S. District Court Case Summaries: September 1, 2008.
September 1, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weeky Staff U.S. DISTRICT COURT Labor Overtime - Qualifying work period Where plaintiff police officers have brought a class action for overtime compensation under the Fair Labor Standards Act, a judgment should enter...

Bankruptcy Appellate Panel Case Summaries: September 1, 2008.
September 1, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weeky Staff Bankruptcy Support affidavit - Divorce Where an appellant from Israel commenced an adversary proceeding arguing that her ex-husband, who filed a Chapter 7 petition, is liable to her under the terms of a...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Case Summaries: September 1, 2008.(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weeky Staff U.S. BANKRUPTCY COURT Bankruptcy Chapter 7 trustee - Immunity Where the Chapter 7 trustee has moved to dismiss counterclaims asserted against him, the motion must be allowed under the doctrine of derivative...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Case Summaries: September 1, 2008.(Massachusetts)
September 1, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weeky Staff SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT Editor's note: The full text of these decisions can be found on Lawyers Weekly's website, www.masslawyersweekly.com. Prisons GPS - Release Where an issue has arisen as to whether the...

Mass. Appeals Court Case Summaries: September 1, 2008.(Massachusetts)
September 1, 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. Criminal Assault and battery by means of dangerous weapon Where a defendant was...

Mass. Appeals Court Unpublished Case Summaries: September 1, 2008.(Massachusetts)
September 1, 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: September 1, 2008.(Massachusetts)
September 1, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff Civil practice Motion for protective order Where a defendant corporation has moved for a protective order directing postponement of any testimonial discovery... directed to it and any officer, employee,...

Mass. Land Court: September 1, 2008.(Massachusetts)
September 1, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff Zoning Variance - Findings Where the Revere zoning board granted two defendants a variance, the board exceeded its authority in doing so without having made the findings required by G.L.c. 40A, s.10....

Mass. District Court/BMC Trial Division Case Summaries: September 1, 2008.(Massachusetts)
September 1, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff Contract Invoices - Petroleum - Preemption Even though the defendant has not paid the invoices for work performed by the plaintiff, a motion for summary judgment filed by the plaintiff must be denied...

Mass. Housing Court Case Summaries: September 1, 2008.(Massachusetts)(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff Mortgages Summary process action - Recording Where an assignee of a mortgage commenced a summary process action prior to recording a foreclosure deed, the action was premature and must accordingly be...

Mass. Appellate Tax Board Case Summaries: September 1, 2008.(Massachusetts)
September 1, 2008... Byline: Mass. Lawyers Weekly Staff Taxation Sales and use taxes - Internet access Where a taxpayer has filed an appeal of the Commissioner of Revenue's refusal to abate sales and use taxes on internet access for the period from March 1,...

Controversial comments by Boston's Wendy J. Murphy enrage critics.
September 8, 2008... Byline: Julia Reischel During a July 16 segment on New England Cable News, the only thing attracting more attention than Wendy J. Murphy's low-cut dress, impeccably made-up face and perfect brunette blowout was her fiery rhetoric about...

1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Employer not liable for unreported harassment.
September 8, 2008... Byline: Eric T. Berkman An employer could not be held vicariously liable for sexual harassment where the alleged victim never complained to management, even though a co-worker who witnessed the incidents failed to report them as was...

More than $12K missing from Suffolk County register's office.
September 8, 2008... Byline: Julia Reischel Just weeks after the register of probate in Middlesex County was arrested for allegedly stealing cash from government copying machines, a state auditor's report is raising questions of malfeasance in the Suffolk...

Commentary: In search of the strongest possible PaS5_w*Rd!(password)
September 8, 2008... Byline: David Yas Mark my words: Some business is going to lose its shirt in a lawsuit, soon, and it's going to be because someone in the company was using "teddybear" as his computer-login password. "Muffin" "Barcelona" ...

Massachusetts Appeals Court upholds counsel fees for developer.
September 8, 2008... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz Leaders of the statewide bar associations representing municipal counsel and real estate lawyers are in seemingly rare agreement on the muted impact of a recent Appeals Court ruling upholding an award of...

Massachusetts lawyers spar over state senator's case.(James Marzilli's sexual assault case)
September 8, 2008... Byline: David E. Frank The lawyer representing state Sen. James Marzilli said last week that he intends to seek sanctions that could be as high as $20,000 against attorney Wendy J. Murphy over her most recent appeal to the Supreme Judicial...

Paper trail: Judicial Nominating Commission.
September 8, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The workings of the Judicial Nominating Commission are notoriously clandestine; no one really knows what members talk about when they meet secretly to vet those who would be judges in...

Border crossing: Longtime Springfield attorney leaves for Connecticut.(David A. Robinson)(Brief article)
September 8, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The 2003 decision by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of O'Brien, et al. v. Town of Agawam, et al. was not merely a noteworthy ruling that required the town to compensate police...

Commentary: NESL-ing in for another 100.(New England School of Law)
September 8, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff In 1908, women in this country did not even have the right to vote, let alone their own law school. But one Arthur Winfield MacLean, a recent graduate of Boston University School of Law who had...

Northeastern School of Law: Room for improvement.(Brief article)
September 8, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff A few blocks west of New England School of Law, Northeastern University School of Law, on Boston's Huntington Avenue, is not letting much grass grow under its proverbial feet. Late last month,...

Massachusetts Judicial Scouting Report: Dennis J. Curran.
September 8, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff In this feature, a Massachusetts judge is highlighted in an effort to provide practitioners with a snapshot of the jurist and a flavor of his or her jurisprudence. The report was compiled from...

Verdicts & Settlements September 8, 2008: Lack of urgent care leads to patient's second stroke.
September 8, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $1.75 million settlement The plaintiff was a 52-year-old man in generally good health, working full time as a school custodian. On Feb. 20, 2004, he suffered a major, disabling stroke that he...

Verdicts & Settlements September 8, 2008: Hypertensive woman delivers severely disabled child.
September 8, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $4 million settlement This medical-malpractice action involved negligence resulting in the birth of a severely disabled, brain-injured child. The plaintiff alleged that the defendant...

Verdicts & Settlements September 8, 2008: Jury rules police acted justly in assault arrest.(Brief article)
September 8, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Defense verdict The plaintiff alleged that she was falsely arrested by the police when she was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, namely, her motor vehicle. Neighbors reported...

Verdicts & Settlements September 8, 2008: Car flips over; driver suffers crushed finger.(Brief article)
September 8, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Defense award This matter arose out of a two-vehicle accident that occurred at an intersection in New Bedford. The parties were the respective drivers of the vehicles. The intersection...

Mass. Bar of Board Overseers: In Re: Valeria Jean Bianco.(Massachusetts)(Brief article)
September 8, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Reinstatement Hearing The Board of Bar Overseers will hold a public hearing on the petition for reinstatement of Valeria Jean Bianco, of East Greenwich, RI, who has been suspended since 2005....

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: In Re: James N. Ellis Jr.(Case overview)
September 8, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff SJC No. BD-1997-024 IN RE: JAMES N. ELLIS JR. Last known address: 67 North Street Shrewsbury, MA 01545 Memorandum of decision entered by Cordy, J., on August 5, 2008 The respondent,...

Slow, steady market has Boston landlords winning the race now.
September 8, 2008... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz A turn-of-the-millennium pioneer in putting down stakes in Boston's Seaport District, when that stretch of South Boston was little more than a gargantuan parking lot, Cetrulo & Capone is considering pulling up...

Massachusetts lawyers find savings, convenience by switching to Internet telephones.
September 8, 2008... Byline: Noah Schaffer Herbert W. Cooper IV still uses the same phone system his uncle installed at his Wellesley practice some two decades ago. But Cooper, like many other lawyers, isn't using Ma Bell anymore. Instead, he makes his...

Big Massachusetts firms betting that donated space brings in business.
September 8, 2008... Byline: Julia Reischel For law firms with the resources and the infrastructure, office space can be much more than just a place to work. For example, Boston's Goulston & Storrs, Foley Hoag and Greenberg Traurig all boast large,...

Commentary: Due process in the bankruptcy courts.
September 8, 2008... Byline: Melvin S. Hoffman The recent decision of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Arch Wireless, Inc. v. Nationwide Paging, Inc. (In re Arch Wireless, Inc.), ___ F. 3rd ___, 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 15554 (1st Cir. Mass. 2008), is a...

Massachusetts Lawyers in the News: September 8, 2008.(Brief article)
September 8, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff New associations Kathryn A. Joyce has been named executive director of the Disability Law Center of Massachusetts. John K. Felter has joined Ropes & Gray in Boston as a partner. ...

Commentary: $500M business tax increase to take effect.
September 8, 2008... Byline: Morris N. Robinson On July 3, Gov. Deval L. Patrick signed into law a new and modernized Massachusetts tax regime. This article summarizes some of the tax changes affecting Massachusetts businesses and their owners. Among the...

Massachusetts State Ethics Commission Case Summaries: September 8, 2008.
September 8, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Conflict of interest Historic district commission member - Private floral business Where the petitioner is a member of the New Shoreham District Commission, it is our opinion that she is permitted...

Massachusetts Superior Courts Case Summaries: September 8, 2008.
September 8, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Search and seizure Unloaded handgun Where the police seized an unloaded .22 caliber semi-automatic handgun from the defendant's automobile following a warrantless search, I find that the handgun...

1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Case Summaries: September 8, 2008.
September 8, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Employment Harassment - Supervisor's knowledge Where a defendant employer was awarded summary judgment on a plaintiff's sexual harassment claim, the judgment should be affirmed on the ground that...

Exhibit A News moves to Web only delivery; LawyersUSA expands online product.
September 10, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff With a growing online readership, Lawyers Weekly today announced changes to two of its Boston-based products. LawyersUSA, the national news source for attorneys, is expanding its Web offerings...

Other Massachusetts Agencies Case Summaries: September 15, 2008.(Brief article)
September 15, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Conflict of interest City council assistant research director Where a Boston city council assistant research director invoked his position in an effort to pressure a valet parking service into...

Massachusetts Division Of Labor Relations Case Summaries: September 15, 2008.
September 15, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Labor Prohibited practice charge against union Where a firefighter has filed a prohibited practice against his union, I find that his charge must be dismissed both because it is untimely and...

Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board Case Summaries: September 15, 2008.
September 15, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Taxation Residential condominium Where the appellant owner of a residential condominium unit has sought a real estate tax abatement for fiscal year 2007, I find that the request must be denied...

District Court/BMC Trial Division Case Summaries: September 15, 2008.
September 15, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Insurance Examination Under Oath - Willfulness Where a defendant insurance company has moved for summary judgment based on the failure of the policyholder, and another party allegedly injured while...

Massachusetts Land Courts Case Summaries: September 15, 2008.(Brief article)
September 15, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Real property Boston parcel - Title Where a dispute has arisen over title to a triangular Boston parcel, I find from the evidence that the city of Boston owns the parcel in fee. I decide today that...

District Court/BMC Appellate Division Case Summaries: September 15, 2008.
September 15, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Real property Commission - Broker Where a plaintiff brought suit to recover a real estate broker's commission from the defendant, a judgment for the plaintiff must be reversed in light of the fact...

Massachusetts Superior Courts Case Summaries: September 15, 2008.
September 15, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Municipal Recreational Use Statute - Playground Where a 5-year-old plaintiff who was injured on Grafton Middle School property seeks to hold the defendant town liable, the defendant must be awarded...

Massachusetts Appeals Court - Unpublished Case Summaries: September 15, 2008.
September 15, 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 Appeals Court Case Summaries: September 15, 2008.
September 15, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Employment Harassment - Race - Non-employee Where a respondent general contractor has been held liable for offensive racial remarks made by its job site superintendent to a complainant employee of...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court Case Summaries: September 15, 2008.(Massachusetts)(Brief article)
September 15, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Criminal Murder - Unavailable witness - Grand jury testimony Where a father and son were convicted of first-degree murder, the trial judge did not err in excluding grand jury testimony by a witness...

U.S. Bankruptcy Court Case Summaries: September 15, 2008.
September 15, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Bankruptcy Chapter 13 plan - Income Where a creditor has objected to a Chapter 13 plan, the objection must be overruled in light of the creditor's failure to show that the debtors' disposable...

U.S. Magistrate Judges Case Summaries: September 15, 2008.
September 15, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Zoning Wireless tower - TCA Where (1) a plaintiff provider of personal wireless communications services applied for a special permit, a use variance and dimensional variances to construct a...

U.S. District Court Case Summaries: September 15, 2008.
September 15, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Mortgages Racial discrimination Where a defendant mortgage lender has moved to dismiss a complaint that alleges racial discrimination, the motion must be denied in light of the plaintiffs'...

1st U.S. Circuit Court Of Appeals Case Summaries: September 15, 2008.
September 15, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Editor's note: The full text of these decisions can be found on Lawyers Weekly's website, www.masslawyersweekly.com Criminal Carjacking - Firearms - Lineup - Cell phone alibi evidence Where a jury...

Most Important Mass. Opinions: September 15, 2008.
September 15, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Zoning Wireless tower - TCA Where (1) a plaintiff provider of personal wireless communications services applied for a special permit, a use variance and dimensional variances to construct...

Judgments affirmed by Massachusetts Appeals Court: September 15, 2008.
September 15, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The Appeals Court has affirmed, pursuant to Rule 1:28, judgments in the following cases. * Adoption of Fabiano (Lawyers Weekly No. 81-760-08) (6 pages) (appeal of a decree dispensing with the...

Slipping through the cracks: Massachusetts man convicted of crime never ordered to serve term.(Vith Ly)
September 15, 2008... Byline: Noah Schaffer Had Vith Ly not been pulled over for a routine traffic violation last year, it's likely that the prison sentence he had been evading for 16 years would have continued unnoticed. Only when the State Police ran the...

Mass. Supreme Judicial Court committee's proposed rule changes on contingent fees stir controversy.(Massachusetts)
September 15, 2008... Byline: Barbara Rabinovitz A Supreme Judicial Court committee has proposed revisions to the professional conduct rules that would codify the caselaw making a successor lawyer responsible for the fees of a discharged attorney in a...

Massachusetts witness protection program gets zero funding.
September 15, 2008... Byline: David E. Frank With a significant rise in the number of witness protection petitions filed in the past 12 months, news that the program has not been funded for the current fiscal year has some of the state's district attorneys...

Mass. Appeals Court finds contractor liable for harassment.(Massachusetts)
September 15, 2008... Byline: Thomas E. Egan The Appeals Court has found that a general contractor could be held liable for failing to take sufficient corrective action after learning that its job site superintendent had been making offensive racial remarks to...

Verdicts & Settlements September 15, 2008: Construction worker crushed in craneway collapse.
September 15, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $4 million settlement This was a wrongful death action arising out of the Jan. 26, 2005, collapse of portions of a craneway that caused the death of the 44-year-old plaintiff's decedent. ...

Verdicts & Settlements September 15, 2008: Car crash exacerbates woman's back pain.(Brief article)
September 15, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $150,000 settlement The plaintiff, a 34-year-old single mother of three, was involved in a motor vehicle accident in 2005 resulting in minor damage to her vehicle. She previously had been...

Verdicts & Settlements September 15, 2008: Misdiagnosed mole early sign of cancer.(Brief article)
September 15, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $1 million settlement In November 2000, the plaintiff, then 18, was noted to have a mole on her left calf and underwent an excision followed by full-thickness skin graft. The pathologist...

Verdicts & Settlements September 15, 2008: Police cleared in arrest of sign-bearing protester.(Brief article)
September 15, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff Defense verdict The plaintiff alleged that his civil rights were violated when he was arrested on June 15, 2005. He asserted that when he was a protester at the unveiling of a statue honoring...

Verdicts & Settlements September 15, 2008: Infant's jaundice leads to motor deficiencies.
September 15, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff $250,000 settlement This case involved an infant born on Nov. 11, 2001, who was at increased risk for hyperbilirubinemia (excessive jaundice), a potentially devastating condition. His blood...

Mass. Board of Bar Overseers: In Re: Tracy Dorene Dudevoir.(Massachusetts)
September 15, 2008... Byline: Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Staff The following public reprimand was compiled by the Board of Bar Overseers based on the record of proceedings before the board. BBO Public Reprimand No. 2008-16 IN RE: TRACY DORENE DUDEVOIR ...