Representative Experience

• Defeated a multi-million dollar "raiding" case brought before a FINRA panel by a brokerage house in connection with the hiring of a group of financial advisors
• Obtained on behalf of a multi-national financial services company a favorable award from an NASD arbitration panel against a highly-compensated former research analyst who claimed entitlement to millions of dollars in severance pay and bonus amounts associated with his employment termination
• Obtained a favorable jury verdict on behalf of a large manufacturer on claims by a former employee that he had been terminated based on his race and disability in refusing to return to work following a medical disability leave
• Successfully represented a retailer in defending a putative class action in California state court involving allegations of failure to provide statutorily-mandated meal and rest periods and coerced patronage of the defendant’s products
• Obtained “lack of probable cause” dismissal of dozens of discrimination and retaliation charges brought at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, EEOC, and other state and local EEO agencies
• Successfully represented a manufacturer in defense of a putative collective action under FLSA and class action under state law, involving claims under federal law of failure to pay overtime on a timely basis and under state law of failure to pay n-exempt employees on a bi-weekly basis  
• Successfully represented a start-up in defeating a multi-national cosmetics company's attempt to enjoin our client's hire of a new CEO to oversee its product development and marketing efforts; filed a declaratory judgment action in the Business Litigation Session of the Massachusetts Superior Court seeking a ruling that our client was not a "competitor" as defined in the non-compete agreemen and then defeated a request for a preliminary injunction barring his employment by our client
• Successfully represented a software company in responding to a concerted raiding campaign by former employees and their new employer; obtained injunctive relief bringing to a halt efforts to “lift out” client’s off-shore engineering office and ultimately obtained favorable monetary settlement
• Successfully represented a large healthcare client in a multi-million dollar ERISA arbitration brought by the former chief executive of a client’s predecessor entity, who alleged he wrongfully had been denied retirement benefits under a split dollar plan