Labor & Employment

Labor
Employment

Overview

Employees are one of your most important assets and your relationship with them contributes greatly to the success of your business. In the employment setting, as in any relationship, it is natural to have conflict. How you plan for it and how you react when disagreement inevitably occurs, will contribute greatly to the success of your business.

Sullivan Weinstein & McQuay has significant experience and expertise assisting management in these matters. Our familiarity with the daily challenges engendered by labor and employment relations and our knowledge of the law enables us to anticipate and address situations before they occur. To this end, we offer practical and effective advice designed to prevent or manage the risks inherent in employee relations. In those cases where disputes become lawsuits, we are equally familiar with the courtroom and are skilled at achieving your goals through trial, arbitration and mediation. At its heart, Sullivan Weinstein & McQuay is a Litigation firm with the readiness and ability to try a case where necessary. However, we seek to avoid litigation where that is most beneficial to our client.

Whether you are in the planning stages or at a point where litigation is imminent, Sullivan Weinstein & McQuay can help.

Our lawyers

Our lawyers include a former supervising attorney at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), a former chair of the Employment Law Group at Hill & Barlow (who was also a co-chair to the task force that authored Sexual Harassment Guidelines in the Workplace, a publication of the Massachusetts Commission against Discrimination (MCAD)), a former Deputy General Counsel and Chief Labor Counsel at Dana Farber, a former in-house counsel at Brigham & Women's and Partners HealthCare, and a former general counsel to a prestigious university.

Our clients

Our clients include corporations, colleges and universities, investment and other financial services firms, broadcast stations, manufacturing, transportation, warehousing and publishing concerns, professional services firms, corporate health care systems, academic medical centers, acute care hospitals, visiting nurse associations, nursing homes and assisted living facilities.