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Susanne represents employees and employers in all areas of Employment law in Massachusetts. Her practice is concentrated on obtaining practical workplace solutions for her clients through effective and affordable counseling and representation. When litigation cannot be avoided, Susanne obtains results for her clients through effective litigation. She has broad experience in state and federal trial and appellate courts, agency proceedings, and mediations.. Susanne’s employment practice includes a wide range of cases, including severance and contract negotiation, discrimination and retaliation, wage and hour disputes, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and employment contract and tort claims. She has extensive experience drafting handbooks, providing workplace trainings, and conducting internal investigations.. Before focusing exclusively on employment law and forming Greene & Hafer, Susanne was an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office – widely regarded as the premier state prosecutor’s office in the country. After leaving New York, she joined the the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office where she successfully briefed and argued cases before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) and the Appeals Court.   Susanne has also taught appellate advocacy and legal writing at New England School of Law.. In October 2014, Susanne was recognized by the National Law Journal and the Connecticut Law Tribune as one of Boston’s “40 under 40” Rising Stars and was also recognized in 2013, 2015 and 2016 as a Rising Star by Massachusetts Super Lawyers.

Paul H. Merry practices employment law from offices in Boston, with emphasis on disability, sex, race,  age, and other forms of workplace discrimination; as well as wrongful termination, employment contracts, separation and non-compete agreements  and other employment-related legal issues.  He has litigated a number of discrimination cases on behalf of mothers, persons with disabilities, older workers and workers of color, some of which wound up in trial and on appeal before United States and Massachusetts courts.  He has represented teachers at all levels, sales personnel in a range of industries and financial services workers.  From 1998 to 2000  he served as general counsel and chief of enforcement for the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination; and spent ten years as a Massachusetts assistant attorney general pursuing consumer protection and public charities matters, including automobile repair fraud and adoption fraud cases among others.  Prior to joining the Attorney General’s Office he served as a law clerk to the Massachusetts Superior Court    Since 2000 Mr. Merry has been a member of the Adjunct Faculty at Suffolk University Law School.  He is a current member of the Executive Board of the National Employment Lawyers Association, a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Law, and a past president of the Massachusetts Employment Lawyers Association, for which he has also served as co-chair of the Program Committee and on the Legislative Committee.  He also served one term as chair of the Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section Council of the Massachusetts Bar Association; and as president of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, where he still serves as a member.  Prior to attending law school, he  began his career in journalism with the Waltham News-Tribune and the Boston Herald; and covered the Massachusetts State House as chief of its bureau for the Lowell Sun.  He is a veteran of four years’ service with the United States Army Security Agency, where he served as a German linguist and intelligence analyst in then-West Berlin.  He also serves as a member of the Wellesley Representative Town Meeting and belongs to the Wellesley Club, the New Bedford Yacht Club and the Wellesley Choral Society.  He is a graduate of St. Edmund’s Academy, an Episcopal elementary school in Pittsburgh;  Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana; Harvard College, and Suffolk University Law School in Boston (with honors)  where he served on the Suffolk University Law Review.

Over the past 40 years, the focus of my Boston law practice has been on litigation and trial work in the areas of legal malpractice, business litigation and personal injury.. My law firm is based in Boston, Massachusetts, but I have successfully handled cases in Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maine. In addition, I will consult on cases in other states in cooperation with local counsel.. I am widely known for my experience and success in the area of legal malpractice. I take pride in helping ordinary people who are the victims of legal negligence recover compensation for their losses. I also advise clients when it is possible to appeal decisions lost because of their lawyer's mistakes.. Beyond legal malpractice, I have a track record of success in business litigation as well as personal injury cases such as dog bites and motor vehicle accidents.. My goal is always to help my clients resolve legal issues without litigation and in the shortest possible time through out-of-court negotiations, mediation and arbitration. However, when a favorable negotiated settlement is not possible, I bring to bear more than 30 years of experience arguing cases at all levels of the court systems in Massachusetts and other New England states.. I frequently handle cases on a contingency basis, meaning there are no attorney fees unless I recover a judgment or settlement in your favor. I have an extensive record of winning positive results for my clients.

On August 18, 2014, Best Lawyers named Katherine J. Michon as a 2015 “Lawyer of the Year” based on the high esteem in which she is held by her colleagues.  She was also selected for the 2016 Edition of “Best Lawyers in America.” Ms. Michon co-leads the firm's executive and professional advocacy practice.  She was also named by Boston Magazine as one of Boston’s Best Employment Lawyers, which described her as “one of the best negotiators in the business.” She holds an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has been selected to be named by Law & Politics/Boston magazine in Super Lawyers for ten consecutive years, as well as being listed in its Top 50 Female Super Lawyers in Massachusetts and for all of New England. Ms. Michon is well known for her work on senior executive transition matters, including change-in-control agreements, severance and compensation arrangements, and covenants not to compete. In addition, she advises small companies in sophisticated employment matters. As an established leader in the field, Ms. Michon is a frequent author and speaker on employment law matters, including managing the complexities of executive transition.

Morenberg Law has offices in Boston and Newton, Massachusetts.  We are happy to offer a free consulation by telephone or video conference.. We help businesses and employees to understand Massachusetts and federal employment laws.  Our lawyers can help resolve difficult workplace conflicts. We prepare and review severance agreements.  We review and update employee policy manuals. We also offer training for your team.. Our seasoned trial lawyers handle most employment and business litigation. Typical cases involve discrimination, sexual harassment, wage and hour issues, and contract claims. We also handle business litigation regarding contracts, leases, unfair trade practices, defamation, business collections, and professional licensure.. Finally, we help companies, non-profits, and professionals with varied business law issues. We help businesses to select the best legal entity, to negotiate complex contracts, and to protect against liability.

Mark F. Itzkowitz, Esq. is a highly experienced and well respected trial attorney who protects the legal and Constitutional rights of Massachusetts residents in civil litigation, particularly in cases involving victims’ rights, sexual assault/rape, wrongful death, discrimination, and civil rights violations.. He was admitted to practice in Massachusetts in 1983 and in New York in 1984. Mark has a reputation for providing practical and compassionate legal advice in highly complex cases and has argued and/or participated in many cases before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and state and federal trial and appellate courts.. Mark is a tenacious and competent trial litigator who has earned an AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rating by Martindale-Hubbell® for his high ethical standards and professional ability. He has been selected as one of Massachusetts Super Lawyers in 2007 and 2010-2021, a recognition given to only the top 5% of Massachusetts attorneys, and he has been named a Top Lawyer by Boston Magazine in 2021. He has written and lectured for attorneys, professional audiences, and non-professionals throughout the country.. Mark has successfully litigated and/or resolved complex cases for decades, often through trial, appeal, mediation, and/or negotiation with insurance carriers.. Traumatized and severely injured people rarely can afford to pay a lawyer. Understanding that, consultations are free and Mark accepts almost all of his cases on contingent fee–meaning that Mark only takes his fee if he is successful helping his client recover compensation.

Lawrence J. Casey, who holds an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has been named a Boston Magazine “Super Lawyer” in 2009 and multiple years prior, is the Head of Litigation at the firm, and has more than 25 years experience successfully litigating complex employment related matters on behalf of executives, professionals and employers in trials in state and federal courts, arbitrations and agency hearings.. Some of Mr. Casey's successes include:  obtaining a significant arbitration award on behalf of a high-level executive concerning a claim of contractual severance owed; co-trial counsel through public hearing at the MCAD in a precedent-setting case, MCAD v. Stonehill College, obtaining a significant award on behalf of the client on a claim of race-based discrimination in compensation that was listed in the January 3, 2005 issue of Massachusetts Lawyer's Weekly as the "Most Important Decision of 2004"; obtaining a defense verdict in Massachusetts Superior Court in favor of a multinational high-tech services company and its Chief Financial Officer in a case involving discrimination and retaliation claims brought by a former senior executive seeking an award in excess of $2,400,000; trying one of the first Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower cases filed in the Boston regional office of the U.S. Department of Labor; and successfully prosecuting and defending numerous motions for injunctive relief concerning non-competition and non-solicitation agreements in the state and federal courts.  Mr. Casey has also argued appeals before the First Circuit Court of Appeals, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Massachusetts Appeals Court.  His representation of individuals in court, arbitrations and mediations has resulted in numerous judgments and settlements in excess of a million dollars.. Mr. Casey also has extensive experience negotiating complex executive employment and transition agreements in various industries, including mergers and acquisitions, change-in-control agreements, non-competition and non-solicitation agreements, lift-outs and incentive/equity compensation.  Mr. Casey advises executives concerning the numerous and varied documents that are often used to memorialize their compensation packages including employment agreements, stock and option plans and agreements, long term incentive plans, deferred compensation agreements, promissory notes, pledge agreements, redemption agreements, partnership or limited partnership agreements, limited liability company agreements and expatriation and repatriation agreements regarding overseas assignments.. A frequent author and speaker regarding issues of employment law, Mr. Casey has contributed articles and spoken at seminars and conventions conducted by the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. (MCLE) and Boston Bar Association (BBA) including the Employment Law Conference, an annual conference conducted by MCLE.  His speaking engagements have included the following programs: Effective Discovery in Employment Litigation (MCLE), Domestic Violence Issues in the Workplace (BBA), Advising the Maturing Business: Moving Beyond the Start-Up (MCLE) and Electronic Discovery (MCLE).  Mr. Casey also presented the employee’s case at You Be the Judge – An HR Courtroom Drama, sponsored by the Northeast Human Resources Association, and recently co-authored the Privacy chapter of MCLE’s Massachusetts Employment Law publication.. Mr. Casey is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts, Colorado and Hawaii, and before the United States District Courts for Massachusetts and Hawaii, the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the United States Tax Court.  He has also been admitted, for specific litigation cases, in federal and state courts in New Hampshire and Connecticut.  He served as a member of the Board of Bar Examiners of the State of Hawaii in 1989.. Prior to co-founding Shilepsky O’Connell Hartley, Mr. Casey was a partner at Perkins, Smith & Cohen, and managing partner at Crowe & Casey.  Mr. Casey is a cum laude graduate of Boston College.  He received his J.D. from Duquesne University where he served as a member and managing editor of the Duquesne Law Review.  Mr. Casey served on the Board of Directors of the Andover School of Montessori for nine years and was president of the Board of Directors for eight years.

Kathy Jo Cook is the managing member of KJC Law Firm. She represents people who have been injured and people and businesses that have suffered an economic loss. This includes individuals who have been injured in a car crash, on a construction site, or by a doctor, nurse or lawyer. This also includes individuals and businesses which have been harmed by another as a result of unfair business practices or discrimination in employment.. Kathy Jo began her legal career at Lubin & Meyer, P.C. during law school. She joined Keches & Mallen, P.C. thereafter, where she handled complex claims on behalf of injured plaintiffs for 13 years. Kathy Jo litigated the first successful claim in Massachusetts to hold that an insurance company’s meritless appeal of an injured worker’s verdict was a bad faith insurance practice and violated the Consumer Protection Statute, securing the original judgment of more than 3 million dollars and an additional 4.2 million dollar punitive judgment against the insurance company for that practice. In 2010, she prevailed in Law v. Griffith, 457 Mass. 349 (2010),a case which was deemed to be one of the most important decisions of the year and one which continues to aid plaintiffs seeking damages at trial for medical expenses.. Kathy Jo’s outstanding abilities have been recognized by her peers and legal observers. In 1999, she was named by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly as one of the top five "up and coming" attorneys in Massachusetts, and in 2007, she became the third lawyer ever to be inducted into the Lawyers Weekly "Hall of Fame." In 2008, Kathy Jo was named as one of the Top 50 Women Lawyers in Massachusetts by Law & Politics Magazine (Best of Boston), and she has been named as a Super Lawyer by that same publication every year since. In 2010, Kathy Jo was admitted to the American Board of Trial Advocates, a distinguished organization which is open by application only to those with significant trial experience.. Kathy Jo has been rated as “AV Preeminent” by Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. This is the highest rating possible and is given only to lawyers who have very high to preeminent legal ability and who embrace very high professional standards. She has also been rated by Avvo as “Superb.”. Kathy Jo has also been active in bar association work and other efforts to promote fairness, justice and equality in the trial bar as well as society at large. She served on the Board of Directors of the Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts for a number of years and was its President in 2008-2009. She is a member of the Labor & Employment Section Counsel of the Massachusetts Bar Association, where she has also served as Chair of the Judicial Administration Section Council, Co-Chair of the Plain English Jury Instruction Project, and as a member of the Standing Court Management Advisory Committee and the Strategic Planning Committee. Kathy Jo is a member of the Board of Governors of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys and she has also served on its Executive Management Board. She has served as Co-Chair of the Legislative Policy Committee and the Executive Management Board of the Massachusetts Employment Lawyers Association. Kathy Jo has also served on the Civil Right to Counsel Task Force, the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Section Council and the Diversity and Inclusion Section Council of the Boston Bar Association. She is also a member of the American Association for Justice, formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.. Kathy Jo frequently lectures on substantive legal issues, litigation techniques and gender equality at area law schools, professional conferences, and Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education. She has been featured in a number of publications, including the National Law Journal and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. She has received numerous first place awards in national writing and trial competitions, including the Association of Trial Lawyers of America National Trial Competition. Her writings have appeared in numerous publications, including the American Judges Association Journal and the Cleveland State Law Review.. About her work Kathy Jo says, "My focus has always been on justice. To me justice means working to promote equality, to protect important civil rights, and to help individual people, workers and consumers to obtain just compensation for injuries caused by the fault of others.”. Kathy Jo is an honors graduate of Suffolk University Law School and the University of Houston. She is licensed to practice before all state and federal courts in Massachusetts.

Attorney Greene is an award winning employment lawyer in Massachusetts.. "Top Woman of the Law"  honoree by MA Lawyers Weekly, Massachusetts Top 50 Women Attorneys as rated by Super Lawyers, included in the 2025 Best Lawyers in America ® for employment and employment litigation in MA, ThreeBest rated, Expertise Best Employment Lawyers in Boston.. We protect our clients' professional reputations and advocate for the compensation they deserve.  Our attorneys are skilled at advising professionals and executives in the fields of technology, bio-technology, pharmaceutical, health care, retail, finance, banking, human resources, secondary and higher education, law,  manufacturing, architecture, engineering and construction.. We advise on severance agreements and negotiate severance pay, bonuses, stock and other benefits.  We advocate for employees who are in a job transition to leave with dignity and their earned compensation.  Our firm also advises employees who have received warnings, performance improvement plans, as well as employees who are being subjected to workplace investigations.. Our firm handles sexual harassment, discrimination. wrongful termination, glass ceiling and failure to promote cases.  We empower employees with wrongful termination, sexual harassment, discrimination, unpaid wage and overtime cases to take back control.  We provide tailored employment services to meet your goals.. Your employer has a team of tough, experienced lawyers.  Shouldn't you have that too?

Attorney concentrating in disability, life, health, long term care and other insurance claims and litigation, including those under ERISA. Call a disability lawyer for a free consultation with your insurance matter.

As a businessperson, as well as an employment and business attorney, I proactively represent clients in litigation, the negotiation and drafting of contracts, handling compliance issues, the creation of corporate infrastructure, the drafting of policies, training of employees and leading companies towards organizational excellence.I consider myself a skilled negotiator, mediator and investigator, with the ability to identify the root causes of the dispute and finding the best possible resolution. As a litigator, I am zealous and passionate about the cases that I handle and the results that I obtain. I’m fortunate to have been referred matters from the judiciary and from former adversaries.I have been told that one of my greatest strengths is the ability to gain the confidence and trust of people at all levels of an organization, to identify their needs and to build teams to meet those needs.Additionally, I have experience in developing corporate structure and creating infrastructure, organizational charts, job descriptions and disciplinary protocol. I play a critical role in identifying communication, morale and customer service issues, and then finding solutions to solve these problems to improve poor productivity. I re-energize the employees, so that the team has high morale, high productivity and improved customer service, which benefits both the individuals and the company.I have experience working with federal, state and local governments, with respect to labor and wage issues, employee classification, RFPs, bids, investigation and benefits for bringing companies into a region. I have sat on the Board of Directors of the local bar association and other organizations and have chaired many committees.

Experienced Discrimination attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Discrimination attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Discrimination attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Discrimination attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Discrimination attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.

Experienced Discrimination attorney serving clients in Boston and surrounding areas.