Services

For over 45 years, our firm has been at the forefront of the print and digital media world. With a former newspaper executive at the help, we are passionate about pushing our client's content to publication. In short, we work to find a way to publish, while minimizing the risk. It's your content. It's important. We can help.

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Our attorneys have helped local organizations, such as the Eagle-Tribune, Boston Globe, and community newspapers advance their stories, including the Willie Horton case, Pamela Smart, and the Pulitzer nominate series that exposed Alan Eagleson's NHL corruption. National clients look to us, too, from the MIT Technology Review to Wine Enthusiast to People magazine. Our knowledge base is deep. Our commitment to our client's goals is our tradition.

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Access

 

Advances in newsgathering strategies should make information gathering easier. Often, the opposite occurs. With backgrounds in newsgathering and publishing, our team understands the value, and need, for access to information. Our consistent efforts have earned the firm a reputation of relentless pursuit of transparency. And when we are faced with a person or entity that ignores its responsibility under law, we will not hesitate to seek court intervention. Gone unchecked, those who withhold public records and material of great public interest rarely choose transparency. We can help.  

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Content Management and Licensing

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You have worked hard to create your content. let us help you protect it. Whether developing a content management system. developing easy to use contract templates, negotiating license agreements, or managing vendors and third part content, we have seen it all. Advancing technologies have introduced new and efficient ways to deliver and consume content. Our attorneys have worked with our clients to preserve traditional methods of content delivery while adapting to and harnessing new technologies. Our unique experience with traditional media combined with our understanding of emerging platforms gives you an advantage.

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Copyright and Intellectual Property

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Your style, your content, your brand. They help define your business. we know how to protect your brand and content. Our attorneys proactively work with you to guard your assets, whether through copyright and trademark federal registrations, establishing trade secret policies, or enforcing your rights through the courts of the USPTO. You create. We protect.

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Advertising

 

With a former classified advertising manager as a partner, we understand the value of creative and compliant advertising.  With new emerging platforms, influencer content, social media, and ambush advertising taking a lead, we help our clients navigate the regulatory and industry standards to protect messaging. The advertising world moves quickly. Our advice is delivered on your timetable and in digestible form so you can quickly pivot and minimize risk.

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Art and Museum Law

 

Creatively marrying the right brain and the left brain is a passion of our layers. Having worked in the national and international fine arts world and instructing masters students on "art law" at Boston University uniquely positions our firm to provide practical solutions to your complex issues.  We work directly with museums of all types, artists, trustees, board members, museum directors, private collectors, art investors, private foundations, galleries, and auction houses. We are often brought in to consult on sensitive issues related to collection management and deaccession. With family member thriving as artists, having worked in the art world, and offering services to the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts of Massachusetts, we creatively apply the law to unique art situations in an elegant and easy to implement style.

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