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 Ex-Bingham associate claims she was drugged at firm-sponsored party
 A former first-year associate at Bingham McCutchen is alleging that she was drugged at the Boston firm's Christmas party in a complaint filed yesterday with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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SJC weighing future of Wal-Mart wage suit
 A case that could greatly restrict the ability of hourly employees to bring class-action suits against employers for alleged wage violations was aired before the Supreme Judicial Court recently.
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LEGAL NEWS FROM ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS (05/09/08)
·Courthouse feud erupts over bathroom key (Boston Globe)
·Cape man accused of stealing millions (Cape Cod Times)
·2 convicted in '95 Charlestown killings ask SJC for new trial (Boston Globe)
·Fire union talks may go to arbitration (Boston Globe)
·Ex-Hells Angel gets 57-month sentence (Worcester Telegram)

 

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 Pregnant pauses
 "[I]f I delegate work to an 8th year associate, I do not expect to have to double check the work." The e-mail from Donald W. Schroeder made it crystal clear that the partner at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo was not happy. After all, the Boston firm had been "lucky to beat out Ropes [&] Gray for the deal" — the IPO of a "very demanding" client, he noted.

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