by Stephen D. Rosenberg, originally published on http://www.bostonerisalaw.com/ With all due apologies to longtime Globe sports columnist Dan Shaugnessy, who would periodically “clean out his desk” by running a column of short bits he had collected, here’s a list, in no particular order, of interesting (to me, anyway) items I took away from ACI’s excellent 8th National Forum…
Expert Guest Entry by Stephen D. Rosenberg, Originally Posted on bostonerisalaw.com There is a fascinating story in today’s Wall Street Journal, about First Data Corp. abandoning the practice of making cash contributions to employee 401(k) accounts, as part of cost cutting clearly designed to make the company more profitable (or at least profitable enough) to hold an IPO, which…
Expert Guest Entry by Stephen D. Rosenberg, Orginally Published on BostonErisaLaw The whole question of patent trolling, and the concern over it, is an issue that has gnawed at me for some time, having defended small companies against patent infringement claims by competing manufacturers and having prosecuted licensing disputes on behalf of non-manufacturing, but inventive,…
Expert Guest Entry by Stephen D. Rosenberg ,Originally Posted on bostonerisalaw.com My small group of dedicated twitter followers know I was live tweeting last week from ACI’s ERISA Litigation conference in New York, at least for the first day of the conference. Tweeting allowed me to pass along ideas from the speakers and my own thoughts on their points in real…
Stephen D. Rosenberg is a partner with the McCormack firm in Boston, Massachusetts, where he heads the firm’s ERISA and insurance coverage practices. Stephen is a trial lawyer with extensive experience in commercial, ERISA, intellectual property, complex insurance coverage and insurance bad faith litigation. Among other cases, he has tried patent infringement, construction defect and…