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UPCOMING EVENTS

 

>  The Neponset Valley Chamber of Commerce
    Human Resources Council Presents:
    A Discussion of New Federal Health Care Legislation
    Thursday, August 5, 2010  8:00 AM
    NVCC Office
    190 Vanderbilt Avenue
    Norwood, MA
    Featuring: Thomas W. Colomb & Brian P. Fox speaking on 
    recent federal health care legislation and its impact on
    employers in Massachusetts.   

    (To sign up for this event, contact kathleen@nvcc.com.)
 

  

LEGAL UPDATES

 

June 2010 - Labor & Employment Update
    Early Retiree Reinsurance Program Offers Potential
    Savings for Health Care Plans

 

June 2010 - Education Update
    Bullying Prevention Training As Mandated By The New
    Anti-bullying Legislation, M.G.L. c. 71, § 37O

 

June 2010 - Municipal Update
    REMINDER: Changes to Open Meeting Law Scheduled to
    Take Effect July 1, 2010

 

June 2010 - Labor & Employment Update
    Get Ready for the Audits:
    Worker Misclassification High DOL-IRS Priority

 

June 2010 - Labor & Employment Update
    The Price of Experience:  Is It Okay to Use Unpaid Interns?

 

May 2010 - Labor & Employment Update
    New Affordable Care Law Requires Employers to Provide
    'Reasonable' Breaks to Nursing Mothers

 

May 2010 - Education Update
    Massachusetts Becomes the 42nd State to Pass
    Anti-Bullying Legislation

 

March 2010 - Labor & Employment Update
    Obama Signs Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

 

March 2010 - Labor & Employment Update
    COBRA Subsidy Extended

 

January 2010 - Labor & Employment Update
    Congress Extends and Changes COBRA Subsidy Program

 

November 2009 - Municipal Update
    New Changes to The Open Meeting Law 

 

October 2009 - General Update
    New Data Security Law

 

October 2009 - Municipal Update
    New Changes to Conflict of Interest Law

 

September 2009 - Labor & Employment Update
    Stimulus Bill and HHS Regulations Make
    Sweeping Changes to HIPAA Breach Rules

 

July 2009 - Municipal Update
    Old Quinn Bill is No More: Municipalities at Risk 

 

July 2009 - Municipal Update
    Supreme Judicial Court Upholds Municipalities' 
    Right to Impose Regulatory Fees


June 2009 - Special Education Update
    U.S. Supreme Court Rules Individuals with Disabilities
    Act ("IDEA") Permits Parents' Claims for Reimbursement


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WHAT'S HAPPENING AT MHTL?

 

We are pleased to welcome Attorney Michael J. Maccaro to our firm. Mr. Maccaro's practice is focused on the areas of labor and employment in the public and private sector, litigation, and employee benefits.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Maccaro served as Associate General Counsel for a large public sector labor union.  He has litigated numerous matters, and has argued before various state courts, appellate courts, and administrative agencies throughout New England.  Mr. Maccaro has served as an Adjunct Professor at the Massachusetts School of Law where he has taught legal writing and appellate advocacy.  Following law school, Mr. Maccaro served as a Law Clerk to the Justices of the Superior Court. 

Mr. Maccaro graduated from Bates College in 1996 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Chemistry.  He received his Juris Doctor in 2004 from Northeastern University School of Law.

 

 Brian P. Fox
Brian P. Fox was recently elected Secretary of the Massachusetts Association of Public Pension Attorneys (MAPPA). The Secretary is one of four officers in the MAPPA and serves as keeper of the records for the Association. MAPPA meets at least four times per year to discuss current issues in Massachusetts public pension law, legislative initiatives in the public pension field, and strategies for improving processes involved in retirement and retirement-related litigation.  

 

nullGeoffrey B. McCullough recently secured a jury verdict in full favor of the defendants, a large university and several of its administrators, in a Superior Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the week-long contract and constitutional claim trial, where Mr. McCullough also had many counts dismissed by directed verdict, the jury found the defendants to be not liable on any of the remaining counts and awarded the plaintiff nothing. Press attention was avoided throughout the long period of litigation as was internal notoriety. The verdict affirmed university policy, process and action as having been contractually and constitutionally sound.

nullAlisia St. Florian was interviewed on three separate occasions for articles published in the Special Ed Connection. Ms. St. Florian is an Associate in the firm's Special Education Group. Read the articles below:

"Reminder: Develop IEPs Based on Young Children's Present Needs" 

"Avoid Challenges When Social, Behavioral Disabilities Don't Meet Special Ed Criteria"

                           "Post-Secondary Goals"

 

nullRobert S. Mangiaratti spoke at a program for the Massachusetts Association of Land Surveyors and Civil Engineers on March 26, 2010 in Marlboro, Massachusetts.  He spoke on the topic of “The Law of Streets and Ways for Surveyors."

Mr. Mangiaratti also co-wrote an amicus brief for the City Solicitors and Town Counsel Association that was recently submitted to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in Blair v. Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.  The case will decide whether the Massachusetts Constitution provides landowners with greater protections against regulatory takings than the Fifth Amendment of the federal constitution.

 

nullKathryn M. Murphy was recently appointed to the South Shore Chamber of Commerce's Human Resources Group Advisory Board. The Human Resources Group Advisory Board meets regularly to network and to share information about training, benefits programs, legal matters and other human resources issues.

 

 

nullKatherine A. Hesse was named a 2010 Co-Chair of the Massachusetts Bar Association's Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. Ms. Hesse will work with other Committee Chairs to educate members of the MBA, the Judiciary and the Massachusetts Business Community on Alternative Dispute Resolution processes and how they can be utilized to achieve maximum benefit.

Ms. Hesse received the Women of Distinction Award in 2009 from the Woodward School for Girls in Quincy, MA. This award recognized two women from the South Shore community who have displayed a genuine commitment to community service, high moral character, and who have been successful in their vocations.

Ms. Hesse was selected by the readers of Women's Business as one of the Top Ten Attorneys in the region (MA, NH, RI).

Ms. Hesse was appointed to a three year term to the Board of Directors of the International Foundation of Employee Benefits Plans. A nonprofit, nonlobbying organization since its inception over 50 years ago, the Foundation is the largest educational association serving the employee benefits and compensation industry.


 

5 Attorneys at Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane, LLP,
named Super Lawyers in 2009:

Arthur P. Murphy - Labor & Employment Law
Katherine A. Hesse - Labor & Employment Law
James A. Toomey - Governmental, Municipal & Education Law
Regina Williams Tate - Education & Special Education Law
Mary Ellen Sowyrda - Education & Special Education Law

Bryan R. Le Blanc named a 2009 Rising Star for his work
in Governmental and Municipal Law


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