Hinckley, Allen & Snyder’s Labor and Employment group offers practical, business-savvy advice and skilled litigation services to both union and non-union businesses.

With nine attorneys, the group is one of the most robust in New England. The group’s attorneys have tremendous depth of experience, having represented clients in over 500 discrimination cases, thousands of labor matters, and hundreds of trials. Our attorneys work very closely with our clients in order to understand their specific goals and concerns, allowing us to achieve positive results in the most time-efficient manner.

Our Services

We serve our clients in two primary capacities:

  • Advice / Compliance - We regularly counsel management on how to avoid litigation and stay in compliance with state and federal laws. Our attorneys are able to offer advice in a wide variety of employment and labor issues, including discrimination laws, wage and hour laws, employment agreements, issues relating to ADA and FMLA, and advice relating to union issues. Read more
  • Litigation - When litigation cannot be avoided, the attorneys in the Labor & Employment group defend management in both state and federal court, and in front of state and federal agencies. Our team is comprised of accomplished trial lawyers with vast experience handling complex litigation matters, including non-competition agreements, wage and hour class actions, ERISA litigation, construction-related labor issues, and traditional labor matters, including arbitration, unfair labor practice charges, and collective bargaining. Read more

Who We Serve

The Labor and Employment group represents clients throughout New England and the nation. Our firm’s regional footprint allows us to move from state to state seamlessly to address labor and employment matters. We provide counsel to private, non-profit, and publicly-traded companies, and to both union and non-union companies in a variety of industries.

Our Experience

We employ one of the most seasoned and effective teams of labor and employment lawyers in the region.

  • Our attorneys successfully defended the first case in Massachusetts defining “handicap” under the state anti-discrimination statute.
  • Our attorneys successfully defended a client in the first lawsuit in New England addressing the private right of action under the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
  • The National Association of Securities Dealers chose one of our attorneys to train its arbitrators concerning what they need to know about employment law.
  • One of our attorneys served as the chief negotiator for the State of Rhode Island in collective bargaining with its multiple labor unions and achieved the first insurance premium co-pays ever for union employees working for the State.

To read more about our experience, visit our case studies page.

Contact Us

To learn more about our Labor and Employment practice, please contact Christina L. Lewis at 617-345-9000 or email clewis@haslaw.com.