Family Law

• Adoption
• Child Abuse
  As part of her practice, Sarah educates students on the evolving definition of consent, anti-bullying and anti-hazing training, acceptable use of technology and social media risks, and other key issues students may confront. In addition, she provides training for faculty, staff, and school administrators on topics ranging from professional boundaries, child abuse and neglect reporting, conducting investigations into student and employee misconduct, accommodating students with disabilities, and other topics unique to the school setting. Sarah is also a frequent presenter at national and local independent school conferences on education law issues.

Criminal Law

• Sex Crimes
  Rights, Responsibility And Respect: What Middle School And High School Students Need To Know About Sexual Assault
• Assault

Business and Corporate Law

• Mergers and Acquisitions
  Brian’s practice involves representing clients in the full gamut of labor and employment matters, including discrimination, harassment and contract claims, union election campaigns, collective bargaining issues, unfair labor practice charges, labor arbitrations, and ERISA claims. Brian also assists employers with executive compensation issues, employment-related agreements, corporate downsizings, employment issues arising from corporate mergers and acquisitions, and compliance with federal and state employment statutes.
• Business Transactions
  Gary has experience assisting clients with commercial and employment litigation matters in state and federal court, including complex commercial transactions, employment disputes, government investigations, insurance and reinsurance disputes, intellectual property, and bankruptcy.
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property

Employment Law

• Wrongful Termination
  Pro se plaintiff’s complaint, including unlawful gender discrimination (under both federal and state law), retaliation, wrongful termination, fraud, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, among others. The Firm was able to get all counts dismissed on summary judgment, avoiding the need for a trial.
• Employment Discrimination
  The Firm has obtained successful results for employers in both arbitration proceedings and mediations involving the full gamut of employment-related claims, including claims for breach of contract, employment discrimination and violation of other employment statutes. The Firm has also successfully handled grievance arbitrations pursuant to clients’ collective bargaining agreements with labor unions.
• Employment Contract
  The Firm counsels employers in negotiating and drafting all types of employment agreements, including executive employment agreements, standard employment agreements, confidentiality agreements, non-solicitation agreements, non-competition agreements, independent contractor agreements, and separation agreements.
• Employment Litigation
  We are interested in hearing from talented Labor & Employment attorneys. Ideal candidates will be self-starters and team players with experience representing employers in federal and state courts and before government agencies, including the MCAD, EEOC and NLRB. Responsibilities include work on all types of employment litigation as well as labor arbitrations, negotiations and ULPs, from inception to resolution, as well as drafting employment-related agreements and policies and providing counsel to the Firm’s clients on the full spectrum of matters arising under state and federal labor and employment laws, including the National Labor Relations Act.
• Severance Agreement
  Severance agreements are important tools for employers and can be a lifeline for terminated employees. They assist terminated employees with their transition from the company, and they should provide a release to the employer which reduces the risk of litigation. But there are a whole host of issues that must be considered when drafting a severance agreement.
• Sexual Harassment
  You train your employees on the consequences of sexual harassment, so you have nothing to worry about, right? Wrong! Harassment claims of all types (sex, religion, race, etc.) have risen to dramatic new levels, and so, too, have the total settlement amounts paid to victims of workplace harassment.

Health Law

• Disability Discrimination
  Schwartz Hannum successfully represented an employer in a lawsuit by a former sales manager alleging disability discrimination under Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 151B (“Chapter 151B”) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). Sara Goldsmith Schwartz successfully argued that the plaintiff was lawfully discharged for failing to obtain a license required for his job after having received ample notice that his employment would be terminated if he failed to obtain the license.

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy