Overview

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. 

Honors & Recognitions

  • AVVO Top-Rated Lawyer 2020
  • America's Most Honored Professionals, American Registry
  • Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® for Employment Law – Management, Labor Law – Management, and Litigation - Labor and Employment (2006-2022, 2024-2025)
  • The Best Lawyers in America® "Lawyer of the Year" in Labor Law - Management (2022)
  • Chambers USA Guide® (2016-2024)
  • Cushing-Gavin Award recipient for excellence in Labor-Management Relations (1993)
  • Fellow, College of Labor and Employment Lawyers (2003)
  • Lawdragon 500 Leading Corporate Employment Lawyers (2021-2025)
  • Lelia J. Robinson Award recipient, Massachusetts Women's Bar Association (2006)
  • Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent® Peer Rated for Highest Level of Professional Excellence
  • Massachusetts Super Lawyers® (2004-2021)
  • Top 100: Massachusetts Super Lawyers® (2011, 2017)
  • Top 50: Women Massachusetts Super Lawyers® (2007-2013, 2016-2017)
  • Top 50: Women New England Super Lawyers® (2013, 2017)
  • Who's Who Legal USA – Management Labour & Employment 

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Professional & Civic Associations

  • 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
  • Admitted to the College of Labor & Employment Lawyers in 2003
  • Section liaison to the ABA Commission on the Status of Women
  • Elected chair of the Reading Municipal Light Department's board of commissioners, as the first woman to hold that office in the Light Board's 102 year history
  • Member of the Board of Trustees of Regis College

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About Me

Ellen enjoys traveling with her family and hiking in the White Mountains.

  • "Every man or woman who works at a living wage, under safe conditions, for reasonable hours, or is protected by unemployment insurance or Social Security is her debtor."
  • Said of Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor from 1933 - 45 by W. Willard Wirtz, Former Secretary of Labor in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations

Practice Emphasis

  • Labor & Employment
  • Wage & Hour Law

Education

Boston College Law School

  • J.D., 1976

Regis College

  • A.B., 1967

Bar & Court Admissions

  • Massachusetts, 1976
  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
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