News & Press Releases

Mintz Member and Chair of the firm’s Energy & Sustainability Practice Tom Burton was quoted in an article published by Law360 on the increasing number of businesses going public as “public benefit corporations,” which is a legal designation that signals a company's commitment to goals beyond maximizing profits. Mr. Burton said that “we’re in the early days of a real and substantial trend,” and called it a “critical and fundamental change" away from the idea of shareholder primacy.

In an article published by Law360, Mintz Member and Co-chair of the firm’s Securities Litigation Practice Jack Sylvia was quoted on the contentious legal battle between Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin and stock trading and investing app Robinhood, which is poised to test the state’s new fiduciary rule, and, by extension, the authority of one of the most aggressive securities regulators in the country.

Mintz Members Peter Cuomo and Muriel Liberto co-authored an article published in the March/April 2021 issue of IP Litigator that examined how the U.S. written description requirement is developing in the ‘unpredictable’ pharmaceutical and biotechnology-related arts. In their article, Mr. Cuomo and Dr. Liberto reviewed a line of post-Ariad “blaze marks” cases illustrating what may become a trend toward a higher bar for satisfying the written description requirement in the United States, particularly as applied to genus claims covering molecules large and small, such as antibodies, enzymes, and small organic molecules. Where the claim further relies upon functional language to define a genus of compounds, the authors cautioned that the bar is likely to be even higher to the extent this line of cases is followed.

In an article published by Communications Daily, Managing Member of Mintz’s Washington, D.C. Office and Chair of the firm’s Health Law, Communications, Antitrust & ML Strategies Division Susan Berson was quoted on the return to in-person work for attorneys and professional staff in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, which she said was subject to regional and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance. She added that the firm has demonstrated that clients can be served well remotely and likely will use a hybrid model long term.