Lizz serves on the firm’s Management Committee as managing director of major markets, overseeing the Boston, New Haven, New York, Newark, and Washington DC offices. With over two decades of experience practicing employment law, Lizz focuses her practice on employment and business litigation, internal investigations, and employment counseling. She is an efficient, effective litigator, routinely defending employers in a wide range of industries, including higher education, health care, biotech, manufacturing, retail, hospitality, and finance, against the full range of individual discrimination and contract lawsuits. Lizz’s counsel also extends to employment-related tort claims, including defamation, tortious interference, and misappropriation of trade secrets, as well as contract claims involving non-competition, non-solicitation, and other employment agreements. In addition to litigating, Lizz regularly leads high-profile internal investigations for employers related to all aspects of workplace misconduct. She also has extensive experience advising and representing private schools, colleges, and universities in a variety of employment-related matters, Title IX compliance, and conducting investigations involving both student and faculty misconduct. Lizz also partners with her employer clients to help reduce their litigation vulnerabilities by providing day-to-day strategic counsel on issues ranging from employment policies to executive and employment agreements to employment issues related to successful corporate transitions and restructurings. She regularly protects clients’ interests before the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and state workforce agencies across the country.

A former law clerk to Judge Michael Garcia at the NYS Court of Appeals, Jamie concentrates her practice on counseling health care and human services providers regarding regulatory and compliance matters, including advising clients on not-for-profit corporate governance, compliance programs, administrative audits and investigations, self-disclosures, HIPAA compliance and policies and procedures, licensure issues, and other legal matters. Jamie also has extensive experience handling corporate transactions, including reorganizations, mergers, and affiliations for not-for-profit entities.

Andy is a seasoned tax and transactional lawyer who focuses his practice on cross-border and domestic tax and corporate matters involving partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations. He advises business clients in a wide range of commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, domestic and cross-border financings, restructurings, reorganizations, and spinoffs. He also represents clients in tax controversy disputes with the Internal Revenue Service. Andy is the Tax Practice Area co-chair. In addition to his practice, Andy is an adjunct professor at the University of Albany, where he teaches international tax in the school’s master’s degree program in taxation. He also co-taught a cross-border capstone course at the University at Buffalo School of Law. Andy often speaks and writes on various federal and international tax matters.