The Massachusetts Bar Association welcomes back our Labor & Employment
members to the 46th Annual Labor & Employment Spring Conference. This year’s
conference will be an in-person event at Suffolk University Law School on
Thursday, May 29. Faculty presenters include keynote speaker Lauren Goldman
Moran, chief of the Massachusetts Attorney General's Fair Labor Division, as well
as a number of judges and accomplished attorneys who will provide significant
thought leadership in the areas of labor and employment law.
Conference Agenda
8:30- 9:00 a.m.: Registration
Coffee &
Refreshments
9:00- 9:10 a.m.: Welcome
Remarks
Valerie Samuels, Chair, Labor & Employment Section
Council,
Michelle De Oliveira, Conference Co-chair
Kimberly Alley,
Conference Co-chair
9:10- 10:30 a.m.: Employment Law
Update
Moderator: Laura Raisty, Kenney & Sams
Panelist:
David W. Robinson, Ruberto, Israel & Weiner
Panelist: Gavriela M.
Bogin-Farber, Segal Roitman
Panelist: Andrea Kramer, Kramer
Law
10:30- 10:40 a.m.: Networking
Break
10:40 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.: Labor Law
Update
Moderator: Dennis Coyne, McDonald Lamond Canzoneri
Panelist: Sarah Spatafore, Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane
Panelist:
Al Gordon, Pyle Rome
Panelist: Alan L. Merriman, Electric Boat
Corporation
12:00- 1:00 p.m.: Networking Lunch
1:00- 2:30
p.m.: Keynote Address: Lauren Goldman Moran, Chief, Attorney
General's Office - Fair Labor Division
2:30- 3:30 p.m.: Judicial
Panel
Moderator: Kim A. Alley
Hon. Catherine E.
Campbell, Massachusetts Superior Court Justice
Hon. Heidi E. Brieger, Chief
Justice of the Superior Court
Hon. Indira Talwani, U. S. District Court,
District of Massachusetts
3:30- 3:45 p.m.: Networking
Break
3:45- 5:00 p.m.: Employee Activism & Legal Protections In The
Workplace; And How A Change In The Administration May Impact The
Workplace
Social media has vastly changed the ways in which
individuals communicate and interact with each other. Whether employers
can limit and monitor employee activism when it invades or disrupts the
workplace is a palpable concern for many. This panel will discuss how far
employers can go when attempting to restrain employee activism and employee
speech, employees’ rights, key considerations, and recent case law. This
expert panel will further explore the degree to which the change in the
administration may impact the workplace.
Moderator: Kevin C. Merritt,
Merritt Law LLC
Panelist: Michael Bertoncini, Jackson Lewis
Panelist:
Monica Shah, Zalkind Duncan & Bernstein
Panelist: Desiree Murphy,
In-House at CVS
5:05- 5:10 p.m.: Closing Remarks
5:10- 6:00
p.m.: Networking Reception
Networking lunch and networking reception included!
Registration is required by 4 p.m. by Friday, May 23, to participate
in this program.