Chris Villani

A group of states backed a Boston hospital in its bid to block the Trump administration from accessing transgender care records, warning a federal judge that allowing the government's request could expose a wide variety of doctors to criminal charges.

Other than the Red Sox and a few muggy late summer days, few things were hotter in September than the Boston legal market. Morgan Lewis made four lateral hires, WilmerHale welcomed back an experienced life sciences attorney, and Simpson Thacher snagged a former Goodwin banking lawyer.

The first half of 2025 saw the Massachusetts biotech industry post bleak numbers, including a dip in venture capital funding and merger activity, leaving attorneys looking for creative ways to help companies with fewer public and private dollars.

Harvard University on Monday beat a suit by a former medical school instructor who claimed he was wrongly fired for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine, as a federal judge ruled his dismissal was automatically triggered when he was terminated by a Harvard-affiliated hospital.

Harvard University on Monday beat a suit by a former medical school instructor who claimed he was wrongly fired for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine, as a federal judge ruled his dismissal was automatically triggered when he was terminated by a Harvard-affiliated hospital.

A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration's bid to gain access to a wide array of documents related to gender-affirming care at Boston Children's Hospital, finding that the request is a veiled attempt to limit such care in the state.

A sweeping Harvard University victory in a suit challenging President Donald Trump's block on $2.2 billion in grant funding tees up a high-stakes appeal that experts say may turn on a wonky jurisdictional issue on which the U.S. Supreme Court seems to lack any sort of consensus.

A sweeping Harvard University victory in a suit challenging President Donald Trump's block on $2.2 billion in grant funding tees up a high-stakes appeal that experts say may turn on a wonky jurisdictional issue on which the U.S. Supreme Court seems to lack any sort of consensus.

The Trump administration illegally froze more than $2 billion in grants earmarked for Harvard University when it failed to offer an explanation as to how cutting the funds addressed the government's stated goal of ending antisemitism on campus, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Wednesday.

The First Circuit said Synta Pharmaceuticals' benefits administrator may terminate the benefits of a former executive after deeming that his significant weight loss, six-day-a-week pickleball hobby, and travels to far-flung places like Africa showed he was no longer disabled.