Employment Disputes and Discrimination Claims

Sex Discrimination: Defended a national provider of dialysis products and services at trial of sex discrimination claim.

National Origin and Gender Discrimination: Defending Tufts-New England Medical Center and several physicians against terminated resident's claims for discrimination based on gender and national origin.

Age Discrimination: Successfully defended Boston College in a suit by a tenured faculty member claiming that university was discriminating against him because of his age and seeking to force him into retirement.

Title IX - Sex Harassment Settlement: Defended Northeastern University against claim by former graduate student alleging violation of Title IX based upon breach of a settlement agreement in a sexual harassment action; obtained rulings disqualifying plaintiff's counsel and dismissing matter with prejudice.

Wrongful Termination/FMLA Violations: Defended Scudder Investor Services against discharged employee's claim that he had been wrongfully terminated after having brain surgery; secured dismissal of nearly all of plaintiff's claims (including claims for violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act). Settled favorably on the eve of trial.

Retaliation: Defended EMC against former sales representative's claims for sex discrimination and retaliation under Michigan civil rights law; obtained favorable resolution at court-sponsored mediation.

Sex and Race Discrimination: Successfully defended national health care system and local nursing home against multiple claims that nursing directors were terminated for race and gender bias.

Disability Discrimination and Workers' Compensation: Successfully defended Cooley Dickinson Hospital in a case of first impression involving the interaction of claims for workers' compensation with a request for reasonable accommodation for disabilities. The Supreme Judicial Court upheld the lower court's award of summary judgment in hospital's favor.

Wrongful Termination: Defeated a request for preliminary injunction and successfully defended Boston College in a suit by a long-time tenured faculty member who sought to exclude men from her women's studies class.

Sexual Harassment, Gender Discrimination, Scientific Misconduct: Successfully resolved lawsuit in which discrimination charges were joined with scientific misconduct charges in research regulated by the National Institutes of Health