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Joe Baldiga Featured in ABA Experience Journal, Holding Court on the Paintball Field

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A fluke event turned into a love of this game that requires strategy, skill, and teamwork After a tough week at the office, there’s nothing quite as exhilarating as crawling through local woodlands on your hands and knees as paintballs whiz past you through the air. I’m a paintball warrior. By day, I navigate the […]

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A Pitfall of Company Owned Life Insurance

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A recent Supreme Court case, Connelly vs. United States, decided on June 6, calls into question the strategy and tax efficiency of using company owned life insurance to fund a redemption agreement upon the death of a shareholder. In Connolly, two brothers owned a building supply company. As part of the succession plan the company owned a policy […]

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A Reminder that the DOL’s Final Rule Increasing the Salary Thresholds for Salaried, Exempt Executive, Administrative, and Professional Employees Took Effect on July 1, 2024

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As we previously noted in our April 26, 2024 Client Alert entitled, “Overtime Protections Expanded for Millions of Workers,” on July 1, 2024, the Department of Labor’s Final Rule defining and delimiting the exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) took effect. The Final Rule increases the salary […]

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Massachusetts Appeals Court Upholds Insurer’s Interpretation of Lifetime Total Disability Benefit Rider

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Many individual disability insurance policies include provisions that affect the amount of the disability benefit to be paid after the insured reaches age 65. Examples include residual disability benefits that end at age 65; the stoppage of a COLA benefit after age 65; or a reduction in the disability benefit after age 65 depending upon when […]

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Mirick O’Connell has officially kicked-off our Summer Associate and Summer Intern Programs

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Mirick O’Connell has officially kicked off our Summer Associate and Summer Intern Programs. We are pleased to welcome Afnaan Syed, Faye Desmond, Christina James, and John Fogarty. We are also thrilled to welcome back Madison Sandusky for a third summer with us! Madison, Afnaan, Faye, and John are joining the firm’s Legal Administrative Assistant Team, […]

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Christine Boutin to Present MCLE, What Conveyancers Need to Know when Elderly Clients Buy Property

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Representing elders in a property purchase can raise complex questions. Irrevocable trust planning for a primary residence or vacation home can be critical for the family’s financial future should the elder need to enter a nursing home and qualify for Medicaid benefits. Ensuring that the elder has a properly drafted durable power of attorney can […]

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Ted Bassett Interviewed by Spectrum News1, Autopsy Confirms Social Media Challenge a Factor in 14-year-old Harris Wolobah’s Death

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An autopsy report confirms the viral “One Chip Challenge” led to the death of a Central Massachusetts teenager this past September. The state’s Executive Office of Public Safety and Security confirmed to Spectrum News 1 that 14-year-old Harris Wolobah died as a result of a cardiopulmonary arrest in the setting of recent ingestion of food […]

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