892 ABA Journal Massachusetts articles.
An insurance company is seeking a declaratory judgment that it owes no more than $3.4 million already paid to a Massachusetts judge who won a successful defamation judgment against the…
Aug 23, 2007 11:55 AM CDT
Competition for graduates of the nation’s biggest and best-known law schools has driven starting salaries at some major firms well over $150,000 and prompted whispers of a once-unthinkable $200,000 at…
Aug 15, 2007 7:19 PM CDT
Schools throughout the country are having to parse a June Supreme Court decision to decide if they will continue to assign students to schools based on race.
While the high…
Aug 15, 2007 4:29 PM CDT
A booming market for commercial real estate in Boston in recent years means that law firms specializing in this practice area are booming, too.
The Boston office of DLA Piper,…
Aug 14, 2007 10:14 PM CDT
A grand jury has charged with involuntary manslaughter the Brewster, N.Y.-based company that provided the glue that is being blamed, in part, for the collapse of the “Big Dig” tunnel…
Aug 8, 2007 8:48 PM CDT
A judge who won a $2 million libel verdict against the Boston Herald is now on sick leave and seeking to retire on a disability pension.
Superior Court Judge Ernest…
Aug 2, 2007 8:41 PM CDT
When lawyers from megafirm Sidley Austin agreed to write an opinion letter on the lawfulness of a tax shelter for a corporate executive who was a client of a Big…
Jul 31, 2007 9:31 PM CDT
After Maria Lopez’s first courtroom gig came to an end, a second judicial career beckoned to the controversial former Massachusetts jurist. She was invited to host her own television show…
Jul 24, 2007 8:59 PM CDT
When a former Massachusetts judge was put in charge of the state’s insurance department earlier this year, industry chiefs started worrying. Known to be a liberal Democrat, Nonnie S. Burnes…
Jul 23, 2007 6:33 PM CDT
Back in the 1990s, Sinbad from the X-men, the Mayor from Castlegate, and Butch from Intervale were hailed as critical components of the “Boston Miracle,” an innovative crime-fighting effort featuring…
Jul 19, 2007 8:45 PM CDT
Continuing its aggressive expansion into the East Coast legal market, Cooley Godward Kronish, a major San Francisco-based law firm known for its technology expertise, opened a 10-partner office in Boston…
Jul 18, 2007 6:59 PM CDT
A ground-breaking tax case is scheduled to go to trial next week over an IRS denial of a taxpayer’s medical expense deduction.
Rhiannon O’Donnabhain, 63, wrote off $25,000 in surgery…
Jul 17, 2007 8:16 PM CDT
Although visitors to the John Adams Courthouse in downtown Boston can hardly help but notice the sparkling new renovation of the building that houses the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts…
Jul 16, 2007 5:48 PM CDT
At least 10 lawyers, including several practice group chairs, have jumped ship from the now 60-attorney Donovan Hatem in Boston to establish an office there for LeClair Ryan.
The Virginia…
Jul 11, 2007 9:58 PM CDT
Updated: A former top aide to the vice president of the United States didn’t have to serve time for lying to a federal grand jury. So why should I?
That…
Jul 11, 2007 9:13 PM CDT
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