EMPLOYMENT

Employment Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Our focus is keeping you out of the courtroom. However, when disputes arise, we have the knowledge, experience and resources to handle them effectively and with concern for costs – both human and financial. We have a strong record of success trying a wide variety of employment cases for small and large businesses and individuals. We regularly appear before governmental agencies (such as the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) and in various state and federal courts throughout the United States, with a focus in New England. Our track record in setting employment law precedents in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Appeals Court, the Federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination speaks for itself.

EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE AREAS

While our litigators are skilled in defending and prosecuting employment matters in the courts...

they also know when and how to use alternative dispute resolution techniques such as mediation, arbitration and mini-trials to resolve disputes.

Results

No such thing as a small victory.

Successfully defended a Massachusetts municipality and its police department in a labor arbitration initiated by a police sergeant and his union. After an evidentiary hearing, the arbitrator found that the sergeant violated the department’s rules and regulations and there was just cause for the suspension.
Successfully defended a Fortune 100 company against multiple claims brought in the EEOC, MCAD, and both federal and state courts.
Successfully defended a major health-care institution against claims made by a physician for discrimination.
Won an arbitration for an executive against one of the largest financial institutions in the country, obtaining both a monetary and an important nonmonetary award.
Successfully prosecuted and defended numerous federal and state court actions involving non-competition agreements in a wide variety of industries, including high technology, manufacturing and banking.
Successfully represented a distinguished university tenured professor in an arbitration proceeding concerning disciplinary action.
Succeeded in a jury trial in the Business Litigation Session of the Superior Court between a majority shareholder and a minority shareholder of a close corporation involving claims of breach of fiduciary duty, shareholder status and wrongful termination. This verdict was upheld on appeal.
Won a $3.4MM jury verdict for the former executive director of a major Boston law firm who was terminated because of his handicap.