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June 12, 2017
Advice

Five signs your lawyer is a keeper

Aivi Nguyen

While finding the right lawyer largely depends on your personality, there are some universal characteristics that all great lawyers share, and those are the things you should look for.

  • Focus On Technology/IT
    Focus On Technology/IT

    In digital age, bank branches hit all-time high

    Grant Welker

    Even if there are fewer reasons than ever to walk into a bank, that hasn't meant branches are closing. Instead, banks are renovating their spaces, going smaller and more informal, and training branch employees to do more of everything a customer may need.

  • Accolades & Honors

    Wegmans Food Markets, with a store in Northborough and one coming to Natick next year, was recognized as a Safer Choice Retailer by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the third year in a row.

  • Opinion
    Opinion

    Embrace the fiduciary rule

    Christopher P. Provo

    The writer responds to a May 15 column, "Avoid the Fiduciary Rule" by Nichols College Professor Christine Beaudin.

  • Fresh beginnings

    The new Homewood Suites by Hilton Worcester at 1 Washington Square is accepting reservations for June 25 and beyond. The newly constructed, six-story, 118-room hotel features a swimming pool, hot tub and fitness center.

  • Editorial
    Editorial

    Create better retail spaces

    The days of people shopping for certain goods in physical locations may be on the way out, but smart developers still can attract a robust retail customer base.

  • Charitable works

    The Communicators Club of Worcester presented a $1,000 Elaine Cencak Memorial Scholarship to Isabella Sansone, a Nichols College student who will be a senior in the fall.

  • The Rainmaker
    The Rainmaker

    Four things to expect from your banker

    Ken Cook

    When it comes to banks, businesses have a love/hate relationship. The banker is usually there when you don't need them, but too frequently not able to help when you do.

  • Page One Story
    Page One Story

    Riding attendance surge, Tower Hill CEO plans expansion

    Grant Welker

    Tower Hill's attendance outpaces the national trend, as attendance at the 600 members of the American Public Gardens Association rose more than 5 percent to 121 million, the group reported this spring. That includes nearly 1.5 million children on field trips.

  • Incorporations
    Incorporations

    Incorporations

    These businesses incorporated with the Massachusetts Secretary of State's Office from April 16-30. Listed are corporate name, address and president.

  • Briefing
    Briefing

    TJX shareholders shoot down diversity measures

    Laura Finaldi

    Roughly 15 percent of TJX shareholders voted to approve a proposal for setting policies and goals centered around erasing compensation gaps.

  • Advice
    Advice

    101: Tracking competitors

    Susan Shalhoub

    Whether they guide your marketing efforts, service offerings or price decisions, your business competitors' activities should always be of interest to you.

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Today's Poll

Has your business increased its use of AI technology in the last year?
Poll Description

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester announced on Wednesday the opening of a new Health AI Assurance Laboratory, in partnership with Bedford non-for-profit research-and-development center MITRE. As artificial intelligence becomes more widely used in health care, the center is designed to provide validation for the use of the technology, to address concerns including technical robustness and safety, transparency, diversity and fairness, as well as societal and environmental well-being. The UMass Chan's center comes as more applications using AI are being developed for a wide variety of business applications, raising concerns about overreliance on the technology and its impact on employees.

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