Kris Olson

In many ways, life for women and girls in Afghanistan is only getting harder, Marblehead’s Robert McNulty reports unhappily. “What is happening in Afghanistan is a human rights violation on a scale unparalleled in recent decades,” he says. Not satisfied with prohibiting girls from furthering their education, the Taliban has also banned women from going

William and Catherine Christina’s odyssey to move into their prefabricated home in an upscale North Shore neighborhood has persisted for the better part of a decade.

A federal jury this month awarded a Massachusetts medical device manufacturer what is believed to be one of the largest trade secret misappropriation verdicts in the last five years. The team from Goodwin that helped its client score $170 million in compensatory damages and an additional $282 million in exemplary or punitive damages was led by Boston partners Robert D. Carroll and Robert Frederickson III, along with Alexandra Valenti of New York. Getting to that near-complete victory required surviving a summary judgment battle over whether their client’s claims were time barred, among other issues. The lawyers also had to contend […]

But-for causation rejected Joseph Reppucci began smoking as a child in the early 1960s. By age 12, he was smoking a pack a day.

Protestors who claimed to be merely encouraging a witness in a pending criminal trial to testify truthfully could be prosecuted without interfering with their First Amendment rights, a federal judge has ruled, upholding the constitutionality of the state’s witness intimidation statute.

Massachusetts lawyer among those hoping for 11th-hour action on ERA

Using the vehicle of certified questions from a federal judge, the Supreme Judicial Court may soon provide some welcome definition around an amorphous phrase in the state’s security deposit law, landlord and tenant lawyers say. When a tenant vacates an apartment or other dwelling unit, G.L.c. 186, §15B(4)(iii), allows a landlord to deduct from the tenant’s security deposit the amount necessary to repair any damage the tenant may have caused, “reasonable wear and tear excluded.” As U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton noted in his order certifying a pair of related questions in Peebles, et al. v. JRK Property […]

In addition to having a say over the town’s MBTA Communities Act compliance plan, the Planning Board is preparing two other articles for May’s Town Meeting. The articles — one dealing with the town’s floodplain district bylaw and the other with the town bylaw allowing for accessory dwelling units, or ADUs — are still in

The state courts’ model jury instructions on homicide, last revised in 2018, will soon be catching up with developments in the case law and evolution in thinking on recurring issues in some of the commonwealth’s most serious criminal cases.

Initially, Daniel J. Dain did not set out to compile a comprehensive history of the city of Boston. Instead, the president and chairman of the commercial real estate firm Dain, Torpy, Le Ray, Wiest & Garner says the initial goal of what became “A History of Boston” was twofold.