Mass Law Blog
Intellectual property and business litigation, Massachusetts and nationallyWritten by humans
Lee Gesmer’s Mass Law Blog began in 2005, and contains almost 600 posts. The site initially focused on Massachusetts law, but today it follows business and intellectual property law nation-wide. The site is hosted by Gesmer Updegrove LLP, a law firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm represents startup and established companies in the areas of litigation, transactions (including financings, mergers and acquisitions), IP rights, taxation, employment law, standards consortia, business counseling and open source development projects and foundations. You can find a summary of the firm’s services here. To learn how Gesmer Updegrove can help you, contact: Lee Gesmer
The "Anonymous Lawyer" Industry
First the blog, then the web site, and finally the book. Jeremy Blachman has quite an operation! Law firms, and especially large law firms, are very strange places. Combine driven, intelligent (mostly), eccentric people, big egos, big money, competition for partnership among associates and for share of income among partners, clients pressures, competition between firms, greed, .... I could go on. Having worked at three of these institutions (the-firm-formally-known-as Hale and Dorr,...
Things Just Ain't Like They Used To Be
When a popular blogger/law firm associate gets fired by her firm, in this case mega-firm Reed Smith, she doesn't just go gentle into that good night, as so many thousands of associates have done before her. Or silently, for that matter. Denise Howell, author of the popular Bag and Baggage blog (and coiner of the term "blawg"), discusses her experiences, motherhood, and her opportunities here.
A New Twist on Forum Selection: The BLS
Business Litigation Session. The July 17, 2006 issue of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly has an article suggesting that some attorneys are agreeing in contracts that claims arising from those contracts must be filed in the Suffolk County Business Litigation Session (BLS). The article reports that Judge Allan Van Gestel, the presiding judge of the session, recently made public comments that, assuming the conditions and requirements of the session are satisfied, such clauses are likely to be...
Lawyers Gone Wild (rated PG 13)
I've debated with myself whether to post this video of Joe Jamail, the Texas lawyer who won a 10 billion dollar verdict in the infamous (in the 1980s) Penzoil v. Texaco case. Of course, my colleagues, trouble makers that they are, encouraged me to publish this. Click here to see the video. The background of this case, which was a cause celebre of major proportions at the time, is discussed here. Old Joe got a whopping $1 billion contingent fee out of this case (which settled for $3 billion),...
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