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Fitch Law Partners LLP Announces 2025–2026 Scholarship Winner
Fitch Law Partners LLP is pleased to announce the winner of the 2025–2026 Fitch Law Partners Scholarship. The Fitch Law Partners Scholarship is awarded annually and is based upon an applicant's essay and academic achievements. Margaret Halloran: Margaret Halloran is a...
FITCH Sponsors MetroWest Legal Services Golf Tournament
FITCH was a proud corporate sponsor at the MetroWest Legal Services Nancy King Memorial Golf Tournament. Partners Steven E. Gurdin and Kurt S. Kusiak proudly represented the firm at this annual fundraising event. MetroWest Legal Services provides vital free legal aid...
SJC Appoints Lisa C. Goodheart of Fitch Law Partners LLP as Co-Chair of Access to Justice Commission
Fitch Law Partners LLP is proud to report that the Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) has appointed Lisa C. Goodheart as Co-Chair of the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission for a three-year term beginning on August 1, 2025. In a June 11, 2025 press release...
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Massachusetts PROTECT Act Requires Employee Notice Within 48 Hours of an ICE Inspection Request
On August 5, 2026, Governor Maura Healey signed the PROTECT Act, An Act Promoting Rule of Law, Oversight, Trust and Equal Constitutional Treatment, St. 2026, c. 163. The Act took effect immediately. Among other immigration related measures, the Act imposes a new...
Sign-In Wrap Agreement Sufficient Notice to Compel Transfer to Michigan
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California has found that a “sign-in wrap” agreement on Rocket Mortgage’s website, whereby a customer accepts the web-site’s terms and conditions by taking a confirmatory action on the site, is valid and...
My Neighbor’s Fence is Encroaching onto My Property
If you believe that your neighbor’s fence is encroaching onto your property and you wish to have it removed, do you have legal recourse? In Randy C. Brogen v. Julia Lisa Papagno, Trustee of 7 Edwards Road Realty Trust, the Massachusetts Land Court recently addressed...
Heightened Pleading Standard Does Not Apply to Original Appellants
Land Court Rules That Affordable Homes Act’s Heightened Pleading Standard Did Not Apply to Abutter Who Appealed Building Permit Granted for Neighbor’s Proposed Construction. When the Affordable Homes Act (the “Act”) was enacted in August 2024, it amended Chapter 40A...
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