Law Office of Paul H. Merry

More than forty years' experience practicing law, thirty concentrating on employment and civil rights law, including race, disability, age, sex, sexual orientation, religion, and national origin discrimination.

Trials in all Massachusetts courts, including federal courts covering Massachusetts and Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.

Successful appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the Massachusetts Appeals Court

Past General Counsel, Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination

Past Assistant Attorney General (Consumer Protection and Public Charities Divisions), Massachusetts Attorney General's Office

Adjunct Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School

Past Law Clerk to the Justices, Massachusetts Superior Court

Fellow, College of Labor and Employment Lawyers

Past Executive Board member, National Employment Lawyers Association

Past Chair, Massachusetts Employment Lawyers Association

Member, Ethics and Sanctions Committee, National Employment Lawyers Association

Past Chair, Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section Council, Massachusetts Bar Association

Since 1990 the Law Offices of Paul H. Merry, Esq., have represented individual employees with relation to their employment, ranging from custodial workers to top level chief executive officers to accomplished professionals in medicine, education, finance, the law and other fields. New legislation increasing employee rights has been passed almost annually since the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Using legal remedies arising from contract and tort law, to anti-discrimination and other statutes, to constitutional rights, the office has secured significant financial and legal relief, ranging up to values of seven figures. Significant victories have been won in race and disability discrimination cases as well as in sex and sexual orientation discrimination situations. In the majority of cases the office has been able to achieve substantial results without litigation, however, using mediation or direct inter-party negotiation to produce satisfactory outcomes for its clients more quickly than through formal legal process. Many clients are employed by public schools or other governmental entities.