Trusted Advisors. Strong Advocates.
Hirsch Roberts Weinstein is a premier litigation, labor, employment and higher education law firm. We are located in Boston and serve businesses of all types and sizes throughout New England.
Practice Areas
Employment law is not one thing, and neither are we. Each area below has its own page, its own attorneys and a running stream of client alerts.
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Labor Relations
Union organizing, collective bargaining, NLRB proceedings and grievance arbitration, plus the proactive advice that keeps those matters manageable. -
Employer Counseling
Day-to-day advice on discipline and discharge, leaves of absence, wage and hour questions and workplace safety, before a problem becomes a claim. -
Leaves and Accommodations
Leave requests, medical documentation, the interactive process with a disabled employee, and the situations where several leave and accommodation frameworks overlap at once. -
Litigation
Defense of employment matters in court and before agencies, from single-plaintiff discrimination cases through wage and hour class actions, plus business litigation for the organizations we represent. -
Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation
Avoiding, resolving and defending discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims, from prevention work through agency proceedings and litigation. -
Wage and Hour
Compliance review of employee classification, overtime, hours of work and recordkeeping, and defense of wage and hour class actions. -
Restrictive Covenants
Non-compete, non-solicitation and confidentiality agreements, trade-secret and intellectual property protection, and departing-employee disputes, in Massachusetts and California. -
Investigations
Workplace and campus investigations, including Title IX sexual misconduct, Title VII harassment, campus security misconduct and disability discrimination. -
Handbooks & Policies
Drafting and updating employee handbooks and workplace policies so they reflect current law and how the organization actually operates. -
Crisis Management
Counsel through high-stakes workplace events, from sensitive terminations and leadership departures to incidents that draw media, regulator or community attention. -
Training and Education
Interactive training through the firm’s Leadership Education Institute on harassment and discrimination, unconscious bias, supervisor skills and executive coaching. - Browse all practice areas
How we work
Employers call us before the problem, not only after it
Most of what we do never becomes a case. We advise employers on the decisions that create legal exposure in the first place — hiring and discipline, leave and accommodation, classification and pay, union activity, complaints about conduct — and we do it in plain language, on the timeline the business is actually working on.
Day-to-day counsel
A call about one employee, a policy review before it goes out, a manager training session before the season starts. Our clients treat us as part of how they run the organization, not as a vendor they call in an emergency.
When a matter escalates
Investigations, agency charges, arbitrations and litigation are handled by the same attorneys who know how your organization operates, so nobody has to be brought up to speed.
Practice areas
Find the practice area you need
Employment law is not one thing, and neither are we. Each area below has its own page, its own attorneys and a running stream of client alerts.
Labor Relations
Union organizing, collective bargaining, NLRB proceedings, grievances and arbitration.
Employer Counseling
Day-to-day advice on hiring, discipline, leave, accommodation and separations.
Litigation
Defense of employment claims in state and federal court and before agencies.
Higher Education
Title IX, Clery, faculty and student matters for colleges and universities.
Independent Schools & Chapter 766
Employment and community-conduct matters specific to independent schools.
Discrimination Claims
Internal complaints and agency charges of discrimination, harassment and retaliation.
Wage & Hour
Massachusetts Wage Act, classification, overtime and pay-practice compliance.
Non-Compete Law
Restrictive covenants, non-solicitation agreements and intellectual property protection.
Investigations
Independent workplace investigations involving employees, faculty or leadership.
Handbooks & Policies
Employee handbooks and workplace policies, drafted and kept current.
Crisis Management
Counsel through workplace incidents that draw media, regulator or community attention.
Training & Education
Manager and supervisor training, harassment prevention and compliance workshops.
Industries we serve
Find your industry
Every industry brings its own version of an employment problem. Start here if it’s faster than scanning the full practice-area list.
Higher Education
Colleges and universities working through faculty and student employment matters, Title IX questions and campus-wide compliance.
Healthcare
Hospitals and health systems managing a complex, often unionized workforce across 24/7 operations.
Financial Services
Financial firms protecting client relationships and proprietary information as they scale across state lines.
Nonprofit
Mission-driven organizations balancing compliance with the realities of running a lean HR team.
Attorneys
Meet the attorneys
Our attorneys are known individually, not interchangeably. Each has a defined practice, and clients work with the same people over years rather than being handed down a staffing chart. Start with the practice area you need, or go straight to the person you were referred to.
Insights & client alerts
Recent client alerts and legal insights
When something changes — a rate, a deadline, a decision that shifts what employers have to do — we write it up for clients before they have to ask. Browse the archive by topic, or have alerts sent to you.
Relationships measured in years, not matters
Client testimonial
[PLACEHOLDER: one testimonial, attributed by name, title and organization. A real testimonial exists on the current homepage — Mike Southern, Vice President of Human Resources, PatientKeeper — and is the only sourced proof asset on this page. It is not reproduced as draft copy until it is re-cleared.]
Contact
Talk with an HRW attorney
If you are not sure which practice area your situation falls under, start with us and we will point you to the right attorney.