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Posted on Nov 15, 2022 By DeMoura | Smith
DeMoura|Smith partner, Ken DeMoura, recently spoke about proving and challenging lost profit claims in business cases at the Litigation Counsel of America’s Fall Conference & Induction of ...
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Posted on Jun 1, 2021 By DeMoura | Smith
We opened our doors on June 1, 2012. For the past nine years, we have approached our clients' matters the same way that Ted Williams approached hitting a baseball. Williams was methodical and ...
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Posted on Jun 15, 2020 By DeMoura | Smith
The United States Supreme Court today held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination against LGBTQ workers. In Bostock v Clayton County, Georgia, Judge Neil ...
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Posted on May 5, 2020 By DeMoura | Smith
PAUL ROBERTSON AND KEN DEMOURA OFFER PRAGMATIC INSIGHT ON CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC TO CLIENTS, TO BOSTON BAR ASSOCIATION AND TO BOSTON GLOBE SMALL BUSINESS INITIATIVE. The ...
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Posted on Apr 27, 2020 By DeMoura | Smith
On April 27, 2020, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a new order limiting access to all state courts until June 1, 2020 to address continued concerns arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
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Posted on Apr 24, 2020 By DeMoura | Smith
At DeMoura|Smith we consider our Trusts & Estates practice as Heart-Centered law because we help our clients with matters closest to the heart. Our families, our own health and our wishes for the ...
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Posted on Apr 23, 2020 By DeMoura | Smith
To address the challenges posed by the COVID-19 public health emergency, on April 23, 2020, the Massachusetts Legislature passed a Virtual Notarization Act that goes into effect immediately and will ...
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Posted on Apr 1, 2020 By DeMoura | Smith
ALL TRIALS IN MASSACHUSETTS STATE COURTS POSTPONED UNTIL AFTER MAY 4 DUE TO COVID-19/CORONAVIRUS. COURTS TO REMAIN OPEN FOR EMERGENCY MATTERS AND MATTERS THAT DO NOT REQUIRE IN-PERSON APPEARANCES. All ...
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Posted on Mar 30, 2020 By DeMoura | Smith
US District Court for Mass Delays Jury Trials Until May 29 and Issues New Covid19/Coronavirus Orders The United States District Court for Massachusetts has postponed all jury trials until after May 29 ...
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Posted on Mar 30, 2020 By DeMoura | Smith
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Authorizes Email Service Under Rule 5 During Covid-19 Pandemic Citing the public health emergency created by the Covid-19/Coronavirus pandemic, the Massachusetts ...
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Posted on Jul 17, 2019 By DeMoura | Smith
D|S FRAUDULENT INDUCEMENT VERDICT AMONG LARGEST IN MASSACHUSETTS OVER LAST YEAR $5.36 MILLION JURY VERDICT FOR FORMER CFO After a four-week trial, a Lawrence Superior Court jury awarded $5.36 million ...
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Posted on Mar 13, 2019 By Robert B. Smith
by Bob Smith “Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!” Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17. Scottish author & novelist (1771 - 1832) It reads like ...
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Posted on Jan 31, 2019 By DeMoura | Smith
Boston, MA. January 31, 2019. Boston trial lawyer Ken DeMoura has been selected to lead the Litigation Counsel of America as its 2019 President. The LCA is an invitation-only trial lawyer society ...
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Posted on Dec 3, 2018 By DeMoura | Smith
Massachusetts employers cannot retaliate against their employees for exercising their workers compensation rights. The law, found here, provides, in part: "No employer or duly authorized agent of ...
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Posted on Nov 26, 2018 By DeMoura | Smith
MASSACHUSETTS EMPLOYER ALERT : All Massachusetts businesses with six or more employees are required to file a Health Insurance Responsibility Disclosure (HIRD) by November 30 through the Mass DOR ...
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Posted on Oct 24, 2018 By Sharna Favuzza
Burt Reynolds may have played some silly characters on the silver screen, but appreciated the value of creating an estate plan designed to maximize the legacy he left his family and avoid the bright ...
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Posted on Oct 24, 2018 By Sharna Favuzza
Burt Reynolds may have played some silly characters on the silver screen, but appreciated the value of creating an estate plan designed to maximize the legacy he left his family and avoid the bright ...
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Posted on Oct 1, 2018 By Ken DeMoura & Sharna Favuzza
Massachusetts companies cannot rely on “business as usual” as their approach to non-compete agreements. Old agreements cannot become the templates for new agreements. Ignoring the changes ...
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Posted on Jan 2, 2018 By DeMoura | Smith
Sharna Favuzza of Woburn, Massachusetts has been elected a partner at DeMoura|Smith LLP. Since joining the firm as Counsel in March 2013, Sharna has developed a “heart-centered” and ...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2017 By DeMoura | Smith
DeMoura|Smith partner Ken DeMoura started his two-year term as Chair of the Complex Commercial Litigation Institute at the organization’s October conference in Miami Beach, Florida. DeMoura has ...
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Posted on Feb 25, 2015 By DeMoura | Smith
Companies that retain independent contractors in Massachusetts must familiarize themselves with the state's stringent independent contractor statute and the consequences of misclassification. ...
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Posted on May 3, 2013 By DeMoura | Smith
On May 9, Ken DeMoura of DeMoura|Smith LLP spoke at the Litigation Counsel of America's Spring Meeting in Santa Barbara, California. His topic "The Internet Tool Box for Trial Lawyers" ...
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