Why did a BigLaw firm in Boston wait nearly five years before suing a client over millions of dollars in unpaid legal bills that piled up in a patent infringement case that settled in April 2019?
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/04/24/biglaw-firm-demands-4-3m-in-fee-dispute-with-ex-client/
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...
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...
A federal judge in Boston has put a Providence attorney on notice that his billing records will come under strict scrutiny the next time he files a motion for attorneys’ fees.
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/04/09/judge-issues-warning-in-halving-lawyers-fee-request/
A Brookline real estate attorney is getting hit by a hailstorm of lawsuits stemming from the alleged pillaging of his law firm’s Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Account by hackers who made off wit...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/04/05/hackers-loot-iolta-account-insurer-says-not-our-problem/
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.
Whether the recent vote to unionize by 13 members of the Dartmouth College basketball team marks a sea change in labor law or will be relegated to a footnote by the National Labor Relations Board...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/29/unpacking-unionization-of-dartmouth-basketball-team/
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 lawsuit percolating in the Business Litigation Session raises the question of whether an equity law partner can sue his firm for allegedly violating state civil rights laws prohibiting age disc...
https://masslawyersweekly.com/2024/03/22/can-equity-partner-sue-law-firm-for-age-discrimination/
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.