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Peter represents a wide range of employers in individual employment matters and labor-management concerns. Peter’s clients include health care and educational institutions, social service agencies, financial services companies and numerous other commercial employers.
Peter represents clients in state and federal court proceedings, labor negotiations and arbitrations, and hearings before federal administrative agencies including the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the U.S. Department of Labor, and parallel state agencies. Peter also provides daily advice on the full range of issues facing employers, including employee privacy, disciplinary actions, compliance with state and federal discrimination laws, wage and hour compliance, and obligations under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Formerly an employee of the Massachusetts State Legislature, Peter frequently advises clients and represents their interests before agencies that regulate codes of conduct for government workers and private individuals doing business with public agencies, contributions to political campaigns, and lobbying activity. Finally, Peter regularly advises public and private schools on the many special concerns facing educational institutions.
- Collective Bargaining Negotiations, Contract Administration and Responses to Union Organizing: Peter regularly represents unionized hospitals and public schools in their dealings with labor unions. Among his clients are the largest employer of union-represented hospital employees in Massachusetts and some of the state’s leading public schools. Peter frequently advises nonprofit agencies and for-profit corporations in responding to labor unions’ efforts to organize the entities’ employees.
- Labor Arbitrations and Proceedings Before the National Labor Relations Board: Peter has recently obtained favorable arbitration decisions upholding a hospital’s discharge of a nurse for dispensing medication without a physician’s order, and approving a hospital’s involuntary transfer of unionized employees from overstaffed units to understaffed units without providing operationally disruptive “bumping” rights. Peter has obtained multiple favorable rulings from the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C., in connection with appeals from decisions made by regional offices of the NLRB.
- Government Relations/Campaign Finance Matters: Peter has successfully represented clients before the Massachusetts Ballot Law Commission and in connection with investigations by the Federal Elections Commission and the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission.
Honors & Awards
- The Best Lawyers in America (2007-2012)
- Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2008-2011)
- Massachusetts Super Lawyers (2009-2011)
Professional & Civic Activities
- Trustee (Board Chair) of the Urban College of Boston
- Former Member, Town of Natick Finance Committee
Clerkships
- Honorable Herbert P. Wilkins, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
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Education
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JD, Boston University School of Law, 1990; Graduated first in class
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BA, Harvard College, 1984
Courts
- U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, 1991
Memberships & Affiliations
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