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Sullivan Weinstein & McQuay
Attorneys
Edward N. Perry   
Boston, Massachusetts
phone (617) 348-4300
fax (617) 348-4343
email eperry@swmlawyers.com

Ned's practice in Massachusetts is concentrated in the areas of employment relations and civil rights.  He has conducted administrative hearings before both state and federal agencies and self-regulatory organizations, participated in trials in state and federal courts, and has handled appeals up through both the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Ned has been with Sullivan Weinstein & McQuay, P.C. since 2006.

Practice Areas

Ned represents companies, schools and individuals in a broad range of business and employment matters.  His expertiese includes:

  • Employment Contracts
  • Discrimination Issues
  • Arbitration and Mediation Matters
  • Administrative Proceedings

    Representative Cases

    EMPLOYMENT DISPUTES AND DISCRIMINATION CLAIMS

    Age Discrimination :  Successfully defended a local bank against claims of age discrimination and wrongful termination brought by a former Vice President.

    Arbitration/Mediation :  Represented clients before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

    Investigations :  Conducted internal investigations for clients of complaints and allegations of sexual harassment and national origin discrimination.

    SECURITIES LITIGATION AND ARBITRATION

    Purchase of Fraudulent Securities :  Secured a million dollar jury verdict for an investor who had been sold fraudulent securities by a national security scheme and defended the verdict on appeal through the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the United States Supreme Court.

    Security Claims :  Successfully arbitrated claims of investors concerning churning of their brokerage accounts.

    Prior Experience

    Before joining Sullivan Weinstein & McQuay, ned was a partner in the litigation department of Perkins, Smith & Cohen, LLP where his practice included employment relations and securities arbitration and commercial litigation.  Prior to that, Ned was a litigation attorney in the Office of the Solicitor, U.S. Department of Labor in Washington D.C. handling employment matters with national significance and defending national multi-agency discrimination claims.  While at the Department of Labor, he received the U.S. Department of Labor Special Achievement and Meritorious Achievement Awards.

    Education

    Vanderbilt University School of Law, J.D., 1975

  • Editor, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

    Williams College, B.A., 1968

    Professional and Community Affiliations

    Ned is a member of the bars of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, and the United States Court of Appeals for the First, Second and Ninth Circuits.  He is a member of the American and Massachusetts Bar Associations.

    Ned is presently serving his seventh term as the Town Moderator for the Town of Concord, Massachusetts and is the Treasurer of the Massachusetts Moderators Association.

    Ned served three terms on the Board of Trustees of Northfield Mount Hermon School in Northfield, Massachusetts; two terms on the Board of Directors of the Alumni Program Council of Independent Schools; and one term on the Board of Directors of World Neighbors, Inc. in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.  He is presently serving on the Board of Directors of the Bemis Company in Neenah, Wisconsin, as the President of the Community Agencies Corporation in Concord, Massachusetts and on the Board of Directors of the Union Club in Boston, Massachusetts.

     



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