Porter Law Legal Blog

The Massachusetts Appeals Court has issued an important reminder about the importance of preserving potentially relevant evidence once a party is on notice of possible litigation, and the serious consequences of failing to do so.  The case was filed in the Superior...

One of the great aspects of our employment practice is that we represent both employees and employers, so regardless of who we are representing we have the ability to look at cases from both perspectives. A few issues seem to come up repeatedly, and are worth...

A remarkable case just came down from, perhaps unsurprisingly, a French court, where a gentleman sued claiming he lost his job when he refused to participate in what he claimed were required extracurricular activities.  In this case, he wasn't asked to go golfing or...

Since I started my own law firm, I have been working remotely full time, although like nearly everyone I sporadically worked remotely during the much of the pandemic. While working remotely has many benefits, including the possibility of greater work/life balance...

Interesting article on the Harvard affirmative action case in the New York Times. I will leave it to others to opine on the merits of the underlying case, with is being argued before SCOTUS next week. But there is a related case brought by Harvard in the District of...

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