Sellers of an oceanfront home were not entitled to specific performance of a “side agreement” that allegedly obligated the buyer to sell the home back to them should she express her intent to...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/04/24/sellers-cant-force-buyer-to-sell-home-back-to-them/
A Chapter 7 debtor could not claim a homestead exemption with respect to the proceeds of the sale of the Pembroke home of her former romantic partner, even though she claimed she had become an ow...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/04/23/debtor-denied-homestead-exemption-in-ex-lovers-property/
A public school employee who was shot and killed when she answered the door while working from home was not actively engaged in discharging her job duties at the time of her injury, making her wi...
Plaintiffs’ lawyers say they’re tired of telling clients there’s not much they can do when a victim is seriously injured in a car accident caused by a driver whose insurance policy provides...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/04/19/auto-policy-minimums-leave-pi-attorneys-feeling-helpless/
A lawsuit that for now resides in federal court has a national law firm claiming it doesn’t owe a recruiting agency $137,500 for a civil litigator the firm hired months after the headhunter all...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/04/17/law-firm-sues-to-avoid-headhunters-137500-fee/
The Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that a will provision leaving cash assets to the testator’s mother “if she survives me” lapsed when the mother predeceased her.
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/04/16/sjc-narrows-interpretation-of-anti-lapse-statute/
The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination says it is “disappointed” that two of its “community partners” felt the need on Feb. 20 to send the agency a letter demanding a memoran...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/04/12/responding-to-threat-of-lawsuit-mcad-begs-patience/
A lawyer who prevailed on a breach-of-contract claim arising from the breakup of his firm is not entitled to an appeal bond as additional security for his money judgment against his former partne...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/04/12/prevailing-attorney-denied-appeal-bond-in-law-firm-breakup/
A Chapter 7 trustee could recover $56,000 in transfers the debtor made to one of its creditors during the 90-day “preferential period” leading up to its bankruptcy filing, a U.S. Bankruptcy C...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/04/11/trustee-can-recoup-preferential-pre-petition-transfers/
Just because you conflicted yourself out of representing a party in a matter adverse to a prospective client who decided not to retain you doesn’t necessarily mean your conflict is imputed to y...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/04/05/aba-panel-provides-advice-in-avoiding-firm-wide-conflicts/