Ellen Kearns

Practice Areas

-Labor and Employment

-Employment Litigation Prevention & Defense

-Labor Relations

-Wage and Hour Compliance & Litigation

Career

Ellen represents management in a full range of traditional labor and employment issues, including NLRB proceedings, negotiations, and arbitration. Ellen has obtained injunctions in labor disputes, and has resolved strike issues. She has appeared before federal and state courts and administrative agencies with respect to employment discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful discharge cases, wage and hour matters, and other employment related litigation. Ellen is recognized nationally for her wage and hour expertise, having served as Editor-in-Chief of the first, second and third editions of the ABA/BNA Treatise, The Fair Labor Standards Act.

Professional Memberships

-Former member of the American Bar Association's Labor & Employment Law Section Council

-Past chair of the ABA's Federal Labor Standards Committee

-Former chair of the Boston Bar Association's Labor & Employment Law Section

-Former member of the Labor & Employment Law Council, Massachusetts Bar Association

-Section liaison to the ABA Commission on the Status of Women

-Member of the Board of Trustees of Regis College

Awards

Education

Expert in these Jurisdictions

-Massachusetts

-U.S. Supreme Court

-U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

-U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts