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Bennett & Belfort P.C. is proud to announce that attorneys David E. Belfort, Todd J. Bennett, Eric R. LeBlanc, and Craig D. Levey have been recognized in the 30th Edition of The Best Lawyers for their exceptional legal talent as recognized by their lawyer colleagues in New England. Attorney Belfort was selected in the practice areas of “Employment Law –…

On August 3, 2023, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court promulgated changes to Superior Court rules that will go into on September 1, 2023. The amendments largely concern the formatting of exhibits to civil motions and certificates of service. Here at Bennett & Belfort, we have kept an eye on these developments and are providing a high-level summary as non-compliance may…

B&B Partner, Craig D. Levey, was recently interviewed for the “Real Tea” podcast, which streams on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.  Levey, who often reviews and negotiates agreements on behalf of real estate agents and brokerages, sat down with Nicole Rideout Hartwick, Chief Strategy Officer at Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty, for an in-depth interview on agent contracts. Ms. Hartwick, who…

Michael Mason spoke to Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly about a recent federal court decision that clarified employers’ obligation to pay overtime and keep accurate records of hours worked. The court held that the defendant, F.W. Webb Co., violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by misclassifying its inside sales representatives as exempt from overtime. The company had argued that because the sales…

An accountant who resigned from his employment and who allegedly violated a non-solicitation restriction by providing services to former clients of the prior employer will not be subject to his former employer’s anticompetitive demands. B&B attorneys Todd Bennett and Sudeshna Trivedi successfully defeated the former employer’s motion for a preliminary injunction, including the accounting firm’s request for a court order…

On June 21, 2023, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that a former employee of Schneider Electric would get his day in court on his claim of age discrimination. The case, Adams v. Schneider Electric, involved an employee who was laid off in 2017. Adams alleged that he was laid off because of his age, and that Schneider Electric had…

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is taking steps to severely restrict employers’ tendering of non-competition, non-disparagement and confidentiality agreements to employees. In particular, the NLRB has deemed it unlawful for employers to tender provisions in severance agreements and other employment agreements that broadly seek to interfere with or otherwise limit protected rights of employees. In a memo dated May…

B&B Partner Michaela May spoke to Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly on the new-found prevalence of Massachusetts claims in remote work environments, particularly among commissioned employees. In an article published on May 27, May spoke about the circumstances that often lead employees whose work straddles many states to pursuing their rights under Massachusetts law. Massachusetts law claims can be attractive to employees,…