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...
Attorneys and their construction clients are not wrong to be frustrated by how consumers’ applications to the state’s Home Improvement Contractor Arbitration Program have stagnated, says a sp...
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/
Nothing may bring back the 100 acres of mature Hopedale trees a railroad company bulldozed in 2022 to expand its operations. But — at the Appeals Court’s direction — a Land Court judge rece...
The disclaimers on a grocery chain’s “flushable” cleansing wipes were not so prominent and clear that the putative class action against it should be dismissed, a federal judge has found.
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/04/04/disclaimer-fails-to-sink-suit-over-flushable-wipes/
At some point in the coming months, the Supreme Judicial Court will hear a case that hits close to home — one floor above it in the John Adams Courthouse, to be precise.
The last time there was no incumbent in the race for register of the Middlesex North Registry of Deeds, members of the local bar tripped over each other to take out nomination papers.
A student who claimed that she suffered sexual harassment while enrolled in a non-vocational school did not have to first bring the claim to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, a...
Some kids bond with their parents over baseball box scores or television shows. For Susan C. Zalkind — daughter of noted criminal defense attorney Norman S. Zalkind — it was murder trials.
The abrupt, retroactive notification from Fairhaven-based BL Insurance Brokerage that it had “permanently closed” effective March 1 — and the subsequent realization that attorneys’ premiu...