Attorney Philip N. Beauregard recently won a jury verdict in a malpractice trial against the Alden Court nursing home. The verdict resulted in a recovery of $1.3 million for the family of Kathryn Miller. For more details, read this article from the SouthCoast Standard Times: read more

As a followup to Attorney Beauregard-Rheaume’s most recent blog, here is a link to the federal government’s answers to commonly asked questions by Employees and Employers as it relates to the new COVID-19 law. Employers, take note that this link also provides the posters you are required to display at your workplace: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/pandemic The Law Offices of Beauregard, Burke & Franco is a civil litigation firm specializing in civil rights, business, malpractice, employment, municipal, and personal injury...

One area of law that has a lot of catching up to do is that of the employee’s rights when the employer terminates her for wholly unfair reasons. Such employer actions are often devastating to the well qualified, hardworking and productive employee who otherwise holds a reasonable expectation that, despite her “at will” status, she would not suffer the trauma and disruption of becoming unemployed for reasons wholly beyond her control. I have found a common misconception in clients that the employer needs a reason, of at least minimal validity,...

Republican Presidential candidate frontrunner (maybe not here in Southcoast Massachusetts) Donald Trump recently proposed to bar Muslims from entering the United States. Typically one’s gut instinct to immediately dismiss such crazy talk as the ramblings of a madman (I love that the American public can see past the guinea pig on his head to appreciate who he is as a person) is spot on. But, with Trump’s popularity making it a real possibility that in about a year he’ll have the power to at least attempt to put this plan into action, the...

We often receive calls from employees who feel they have been discriminated against or harassed at work.  In many cases, they believe they have been the victim of unfair treatment by a manager.  Sometimes, they assert that they have been treated differently than other employees. Most employees who are not members of unions are “at-will.”  This means that the employee can quit his job whenever he wants, and that the employer can terminate the employee’s job whenever it wants.  Employees in union shops are usually governed by...