November 3, 2014 – U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers have released the 2015 Best Law Firms rankings. Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP is proud to be recognized among the highest rankings in National and Metropolitan areas as listed below: National Tier 3 Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law Metropolitan Tier 1 Boston...
As we prepare to go to the voting polls on November 4, one issue attracting attention from smaller employers is Ballot Question 4 on mandatory sick leave. This proposed change to the law would make Massachusetts one of only a few states that requires paid sick time. Under the proposed law, employers with 11 or...
Employers have many ways of getting into trouble. We hope that after reading this you will avoid one of them; namely, misclassifying employees as independent contractors. The US Department of Labor (DOL) just awarded over $10,000,000 in grants to 19 states to improve efforts of finding and prosecuting employers who improperly classify employees as independent...
“Question of the Month: Are we reliving 2006, and is the Boston market a bubble waiting to burst?”
As technological developments have greatly expanded the world of available information, the cost of harvesting electronically stored information (ESI) has risen exponentially. In recent years however, technology has also begun to offer new tools, such as keyword searches and predictive coding, to significantly reduce e-discovery costs. But as the parties learned in Progressive Casualty Insurance Co. v. Delaney, No....
By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli In a surprising reversal, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia yesterday granted request by the federal government to have its full 11-judge bench re-hear the case on whether the government, by regulation, can provide tax credits to exchanges run by individual states. ...
August 25, 2014 – Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP congratulates our colleagues, Melissa E. Darigan, Michael A. Gamboli, John J. Partridge and Marvin S. Silver, for being named 2015 Lawyers of the Year by Best Lawyers®. Best Lawyers® has designated “Lawyers of the Year” in high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities. These four attorneys are being recognized...
August 21, 2014 – Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP is proud to announce that 17 of its attorneys have been named to the 2015 edition of Best Lawyers in America®, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. Congratulations to the following attorneys and their respective practice areas: Normand G. Benoit, Public Finance Law Eugene...
By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli Are Employers in States Without Exchanges Subject to Penalties? In two highly technical and comprehensive rulings out July 22, 2014, two federal districts came to opposite conclusions on a key remaining challenge to federal health reform. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals limited the reach of Affordable...
