No Injury From Copying Of Governo Firm’s Asbestos Records, Massachusetts Judge Says

Mealey's (March 7, 2023, 9:01 AM EST) -- BOSTON — Lawyers’ secret copying of their former law firm’s asbestos and talc databases and other materials, while unfair, was not injurious because they did not use any of the improper materials, and the copying cannot form the basis of a claim under Massachusetts’s unfair and deceptive trade practices law, a state court judge said in findings and conclusions after a bench trial....