In Massachusetts, cities and towns enjoy express authority to use alternative project delivery methods, although this authority is limited.

In my previous post, The 7 Deadly (Tech) Sins of Divorce – Part 1, we discussed the importance of protecting email accounts and passwords, not reading your spouse's email and not recording anything without informing them.

With the announcement of last week's Supreme Court decision, proponents of same sex marriage rejoiced and Facebook became much more colorful

Have you ever wondered if a divorce is always final or whether a divorce judgment can be "undone" or "modified?"

For years, the Massachusetts Maternity Leave Act ("MMLA"), M.G.L. c. 149, §105D, only applied to female employees by its literal terms.

Earlier this year, in Mandatory Paid Sick Leave — What In-House Counsel and Employers Need to Know, I previewed some of the requirements of the Massachusetts Earned Sick Time Law.

A good estate plan can significantly reduce taxes, streamline transfers of assets after your death, sidestep costly public probate proceedings and minimize family squabbles over inheritance.

As indicated in a recent blog post in the Harvard Business Review, entitled "Who Has Paid Sick Leave, Who Doesn’t, and What’s Changing," paid sick leave traditionally was a benefit that only some employers provided, and in some cases only to certain employees.

On January 30, 2015, the SJC issued three decisions with significant impact on the right to seek modification of an alimony order issued prior to the enactment of Massachusetts’ Alimony Reform Act.

Anyone who knows me at all knows that I suffer from a terrible affliction called "early adopter syndrome."

My first exposure to military divorce came not as an attorney, but rather as a child raised on a military base for most of my formative years.

Just days before the 2014 tax season draws to a close, new legislation was enacted in D.C. to provide a one-year retroactive extension for over 50 tax benefits and incentives which had expired in 2014.

For anyone involved in a divorce there are always pitfalls to be avoided, no matter where you are in the process.

Despite the curtailment of previously rampant patent false marking suits by the 2011 AIA, patent owners still must mark to provide statutorily required notice of their patents in connection with their patented products.

On August 5, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") adopted final rules requiring most public companies to make pay ratio disclosures pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform...

Not surprising, "side agreements" are a bad idea all the way around.

SEC Chair Mary Jo White stated that "the proposed rules would result in increased accountability and greater focus on the quality of financial reporting."

On Oct. 30, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") adopted new rules that will enable some private companies to use the Internet for crowdfunding campaigns...

While attorneys provide legal advice to their clients, they are sometimes the recipients of such advice from their own counsel, including in-house firm counsel.