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 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.

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.

Jamie concentrates her practice on advising health care and human services providers on matters relating to formation, corporate governance, affiliations, mergers, asset acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, and regulatory compliance and approvals. In addition to Jamie’s extensive experience handling corporate transactions for not-for-profit entities, Jamie counsels for-profit and not-for-profit organizations regulated by state and federal agencies regarding regulatory and compliance matters, including advising clients on confidentiality requirements, compliance programs, administrative audits and investigations, self-disclosures, HIPAA compliance and policies and procedures, 42 CFR Part 2 compliance, licensure and certification, and other legal matters.

Jamie’s clients include behavioral health providers, substance use disorder treatment facilities, hospitals, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, developmental disability services providers, youth and family services providers, and other charitable organizations. Jamie began her career as a social worker and draws on this experience to develop innovative and effective legal strategies to advance her clients’ goals and enhance their delivery of health care and human services to the communities they serve.

Bridget concentrates her practice on assisting health care and human services providers with regulatory and compliance matters, including audits and investigations, self-disclosures, Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement issues, not-for-profit corporate governance, contract analysis and negotiation, and transactional matters.

Bridget has extensive experience working with behavioral health providers, home care agencies, health information exchanges (HIEs), hospitals, agencies that serve individuals with developmental disabilities, and provider networks, including independent practice associations.

Bridget also regularly assists clients with information privacy and security issues, including responding to and reporting data breaches and cybersecurity incidents, negotiating privacy and security terms in health care IT contracts, and providing advice regarding cyber risk liabilities and compliance with data privacy laws, such as HIPAA.