Tamsin R. Kaplan and Michelle R. Cassorla Contribute to MCLE’S Organizing, Financing, and Advising a Massachusetts Business

Davis Malm announces the release of the latest edition of the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) resource Organizing, Financing, and Advising a Massachusetts Business. Davis Malm employment law attorneys Tamsin Kaplan and Michelle Cassorla co-authored Chapter Five, titled “Employment Agreements.” The chapter updates include recent developments in the law on issues such as severance agreements and restrictive covenants.

Organizing, Financing, and Advising a Massachusetts Business addresses a variety of formational, operational, and legal aspects of a Massachusetts business entity, most of which are commonly the province of both in-house counsel and lawyers for corporations. Chapters touch on critical aspects of the choice of entity, taxation, fiduciary duties of officers and directors, allocation of interests, contracting with and compensating employees, real estate and environmental issues, antitrust considerations, the disposition of proprietary property, venture capital, and debt financing, going public, and dissolution. This book is designed for beginning transactionalists and business generalists, as well as lawyers with some experience tackling legal challenges across an organization’s life cycle.

Tamsin has worked with MCLE for more than two decades, presenting on panels and publishing articles for the group. Tamsin has served on the MCLE Labor and Employment Curriculum Committee since 2015.

Michelle has co-authored MCLE’s chapters on the Privacy and Workplace chapter in the 2024 Employment Law Publication.

MCLE aims to keep raising the caliber of lawyers’ professional and ethical service to their clients and communities by providing comprehensive and practical continuing legal education of the highest quality to the broadest possible audience.