Delaware’s strongest business leaders include women on the front lines of growing their organizations, navigating change and mentoring others who will follow in their footsteps. Delaware Business Times sat down with five women from a cross-section of industries to talk about their journey, and the Continue Reading
Some Banks Like it Small
For many banks, getting larger — via mergers or adding customers — is key to offering comprehensive services while keeping operational costs down. But for others, smaller is better. Independent community banks often tout their ties to local towns and focus on how their staff, loan officers and Continue Reading
Banking on Technology
It was an attention-grabber when TD Bank Group, with U.S. headquarters in Cherry Hill, acquired Toronto-based artificial intelligence company Layer 6 Inc. Yet the move also represents just the latest example of how the banking industry is shedding its stodgy image in a full-blown embrace of Continue Reading
Call to Ax Weakest Whistleblower Cases Seen as Scaring Away Some Relators
The chances of winning a whistleblower suit against the U.S. government are expected to become slimmer, thanks to a recent Department of Justice memo highlighting the government’s right to dismiss False Claims Act cases when it declines to participate. Thomas Finn of McCarter & English in Continue Reading
Boston Business Journal
Massachusetts’s federal court system is deciding on new rules that could speed up that patent case process, leading to lower legal bills. Massachusetts tech and biotech companies may file more intellectual property lawsuits as a result. “I don’t know that I can put a number on it, but I think Continue Reading
Garden State Energy Policy Goes Green With New Gov.
From a reunion with a regional cap-and-trade program to a rebirth for offshore wind development, newly minted New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy heralds a greening of the Garden State's energy policies, Trenton watchers say. “I think we're going to see some substantial movement in different directions,” Continue Reading
Attorneys Grapple with Best Way to Handle Management
Joe Boccassini, McCarter & English LLP’s firmwide managing partner, is no stranger to the routine. “When you’re a litigator, you’re really busy at times and other times you’re not busy,” Boccassini said. “But this is like being on trial all the time. Whether it’s at the beginning or end of Continue Reading
U.S. Government Shutdown Would Increase Pentagon’s Weapons Costs
A U.S. government shutdown will stall new defense department contracts and ultimately increase the costs of weapons, creating even more budgetary headaches as lawmakers grapple with a government funding crisis. Depending on the length of the shutdown it could cost hundreds of millions of dollars Continue Reading
NJ Nursing Moms Law Poses Challenges For Small Employers
The recent expansion of New Jersey’s anti-bias law to include female employees at companies of any size who need time and space to breastfeed or pump milk could create logistics and operations hurdles for small businesses that had enjoyed exemption from a similar federal law if it posed a Continue Reading
When New Jerseyans Die, What Becomes of E-assets?
The fact that Timothy Ferges has to reckon with technology in his legal practice is easy to see. Ferges deals with estates. And, as he explained, fewer of the 21st century individual’s possessions are things you can touch. “Pictures online are replacing traditional photographs,” he said. Continue Reading