Current Employment Position(s)

Of Counsel

Lawyer Overview

Andrea provides effective advice and guidance to corporate clients on risk management issues in the workplace. This includes both day-to-day personnel decisions which can have a high degree of liability if not done carefully, and high level policy-making decisions, such as developing employee handbooks, employment agreements, and other organizational protocols. Andrea has successfully represented employers of all types and sizes before administrative agencies in discrimination and wage disputes, including claims under Title VII, the ADEA, the ADA, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and parallel state laws. In almost all cases involving discrimination and/or harassment claims, she has been able to get such claims dismissed at the early investigative stage. Andrea also serves as an outside investigator for employers who need to respond to highly sensitive internal complaints of discrimination and harassment. Andrea rounds out her practice by developing and conducting in-house trainings for businesses and other employers in such matters as preventing workplace harassment, and how to manage within the law.

Areas of Practice

• Wage and Hour
• Family and Medical Leave and Other Leave Laws
• Employee Handbooks and Other Workplace Policies
• Rifs, Severance Agreements, and Other Termination Issues
• Workplace Privacy Issues
• Employment Agreements
• Whistleblower Protection
• Workplace Investigations

West Practice Categories

Wage & Hour Laws -- Employee, Family Law, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employer, Labor Law, Contracts, Employment Contracts -- Employee, Whistleblower -- Employee, Whistleblower -- Employer, Administrative Investigations

Bar Admissions

• New Hampshire, 1991
• Massachusetts, 1988
• U.S. District Court District of New Hampshire

Honors and Awards

• Chambers & Partners America's Leading Lawyers for Business

Past Employment Positions

• Wiggin & Nourie, P.A., in Manchester, NH, Partner

Education

• Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse, New York, 1998
  J.D.
  Honors: magna cum laude
• Suffolk University, 1982
  B.S.
  Honors: summa cum laude

Address

City Hall Plaza
900 Elm Street
Manchester, NH 03101

Phones

(603) 628-1341

Faxes

(603) 625-5650

Emails

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Websites

http://www.mclane.com