Labor & Employment

What the team is known for

Impressive labor and employment practice offering employers and senior management teams quality advice in a range of workplace-related compliance and litigation issues. Exhibits strengths in both traditional labor law and contentious employment matters including wage and hour disputes. Active across a wide variety of industry sectors, including education, technology and communications. Particularly adept at representing universities and other educational institutions in labor disputes.

Strengths

Clients describe Morgan Brown "a really smart and intelligent group, that explains legal terms in a very easy to understand manner." They add that the team is "very responsive and has never steered us wrong."

Clients describe the firm as "a strong team, with excellent client service and extremely reliable research supporting its guidance."

Peers hail Morgan Brown as "a leader in the field, handling labor and employment work exclusively."

Work highlights

Represented Harvard University in connection with a collective bargaining agreement with its graduate student union.

Notable practitioners

Jaclyn Kugell acts as the firm's managing partner. She is an experienced employment litigator, but also works on noncontentious matters.
"She is terrific and extremely savvy in dealing with all different levels of my organization." "She is an excellent communicator and gives us sound legal perspective."

Nicholas DiGiovanni advises clients on labor relations and collective bargaining. He has notable expertise representing universities.
"He has strong expertise in higher education law.""He is an exceptional writer - some of the motions he has drafted for us have been some of the best work I have ever seen."

Robert Joy represents employers in employment litigation matters, as well as in relation to collective bargaining.
"He continues to do an outstanding job representing us and is always available to help us through complex issues that come up.""He is very sharp and intelligent, knows labor law incredibly well and is excellent to work with."