Messing, Rudavsky & Weliky, P.C. is pleased to announce that partner, Attorney James Weliky will be sharing his expertise at the MCLE event, “How to Advise on Commission & Benefits Forfeiture on Departure: The 60-Minute Lawyer” on March 5, 2020. This event will center around what benefits and compensation employees are, and are not, entitled […]
We are delighted to announce that MRW partner James Weliky will be a speaker at the Boston Bar Association’s event, “How Startups and Emerging Growth Companies Are Navigating Employment and Business Law Challenges in 2020” on March 9, 2020. This event will be focusing on employment and business law challenges that face startups and emerging […]
On January 3, 2020 MRW Partner Dahlia Rudavsky was featured on the WGBH Radio Show “Under the Radar with Callie Crossley,” on the Book Club segment. The show featured three women from the first cohort of female students at Yale University, as well as Yale-graduate and author Anne Gardiner Perkins, discussing Anne Perkins’ recent book, […]
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly recently published an article about the legal implications of using the catchphrase “OK, Boomer” in the workplace. “OK, Boomer” gained popularity online in 2019 as a retort to outdated attitudes stereotypically attributed to the Baby Boomer generation, currently ages 55 to 73 years old. “Jokes” within the workplace sometimes reveal negative stereotypes, […]
The Boston Globe recently ran an article publicizing the extreme discord among many of their employees, in particular their security guards. In recent years, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has been the subject of many complaints regarding racial discrimination in the workplace. While the museum hosts a staff that is more 70% white, people […]
On November 5-6, 2019, MRW partner Dahlia Rudavsky and associate Gavriela Bogin-Farber took part in MCLE’s Employment & Labor Law: MCLE BasicsPlus, a popular program Attorney Rudavsky has chaired for almost two decades. The two-day event offered a comprehensive introduction to employment and labor law. Both attorneys presented lectures designed to teach participants about statutes and caselaw […]
Boston Globe reporter, Victoria McGrane, recently interviewed MRW partner Ellen Messing regarding its decision to make Mass. State Police Trooper Robert Lima a full-time background investigator. Last December, in a case tried by MRW partners Ellen Messing and James Weliky, a jury found that Lima had conducted a racially biased background investigation of MRW client […]
In the latest chapter of MRW’s case, Blanchard, et al. v. Steward Carney Hospital, Inc., et al. our clients, a group of nine nurses, have scored another victory at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The SJC denied the second motion of their former of their former employer , Steward Carney Hospital, to dismiss the Plaintiff’s […]
We are thrilled to announce that Chambers has again ranked Messing Rudavsky & Weliky as a Band 1 firm in the plaintiff’s labor and employment category in Massachusetts. Chambers describes the firm as a “top-tier plaintiff firm” that “demonstrates expertise in the full gamut of workplace discrimination” and notes that “interviewees agree that the firm […]
The Boston Globe recently publicized a motion for contempt of court that Messing, Rudavsky & Weliky filed against the Massachusetts State Police. We filed this in response to the State Police’s failure to adhere to an order requiring Officer Orlando Riley to be admitted to the MSP’s 85th Recruit Training Troop (RTT) without preconditions. Riley […]