The fourteen-day seal on juror names protected a name everyone can now work out. Which of this week's revelations matter in court, which do not, and why the nondisclosure question is the one exception to the rule that deliberations stay in the room.
The fee was not clearly excessive. The problem is the oral agreement, the equity demand, and the timing. Why the Correia count turns on Rule 1.8 and a question of coercion, and why count three is the one to watch.
A petition for discipline is Bar Counsel's charging document, not a verdict. The hearing committee, the board, the SJC, the sanctions from admonition to disbarment, and why none of it touches a case the lawyer is trying now.
The petition was filed June 23, four weeks before the Clancy trial, and became public this week. Four counts, two former clients, and a lawyer who says the client is lying. What Bar Counsel alleges and what happens next.
The state's largest and third-largest auto insurers are merging under a $1.54 billion deal that needs the Insurance Commissioner's approval. What the law requires, the market share math, and why your policy does not change yet.
Second-degree murder is life with parole after 15 to 25 years. First-degree is life without it, unless you were under 21. Why the Parole Board has released 39 murderers since 2024, and what parole actually means.
The Open Door Trust of Boston just collected $25 million and the winner's name will never be public. Massachusetts does not allow anonymous claims, and this is how winners get around it.
Kratom is illegal in Massachusetts as of August 28, 2026, by a one-year emergency order rather than a statute. Possession counts, retailers are losing licenses, and the Legislature has not voted.
A West Point graduate who ran Abiomed for 19 years and sold it for $16.6 billion, Mike Minogue won the Republican primary by 51 points and trails Maura Healey by 20 or more in every poll. Who he is and what he says he would do.
The standing record of the Acton case: what prosecutors allege, the ChatGPT searches, why Massachusetts law sends a 17-year-old murder defendant to adult court automatically, and why life without parole is off the table.
