Law Offices of Paul H. Merry, Esq.

Previous Law Firm Name

• Paul H. Merry

Honors and Awards

• Fellow, Massachusetts Bar Foundation
• Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, Class of 2001, 2001

Published Works

• "Developing Electronic Evidence", Practical Litigator, Spring, 2003
• MCAD Citator 2003 (Co-editor), Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Foundation, December, 2002
• "Stalking the Elusive Electron: Developing Electronic Evidence", American Bar Association, Annual Convention, 2002
• "Two Years of Living Dangerously: Life as General Counsel of a State Anti-Discrimination Agency", Employee Rights Quarterly, Aspen Publishers, Inc., Spring, 2002
• "Change in Court Rules Would Assure Preservation of Electronic Evidence", Massachusetts Lawyers' Weekly, Feb. 12 at B3 (29 M.L.W. 1331), 2001
• "Changes are Needed in the Discovery Rules to Maximize Benefits from Electronic Communications", Federal Discovery News, LRP Publications, December, 2000
• "Advising Workers Who Are Being Discriminated Against by Their Current Employers", 2 Inside Employee Rights Litigation 1 (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), November, 1997
• "Gold for the Golden Years? Evaluating Possible Age Discrimination Claims", Representing Workers Under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Natl. Employment Lawyers' Assoc, November, 1997
• "Employment Law Update 1997", Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Foundation, October, 1997
• "How to Evaluate an Age Discrimination Claim", The ElderLaw Report, February, 1997
• "Just Cause Termination: The Employee's Viewpoint", Massachusetts Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section Newsletter, March, 1996
• "Notes on Deposition Practice", Civil Deposition Practice: Winning Before Trial, Mass. Continuing Legal Education Foundation, Inc., 1990
• "Fourteen States Bring AAMCO Transmissions' Unfair Practices to a Grinding Halt", National Association of Attorney General Consumer Protection Report, March, 1987
• "Protecting Consumers from Business Failure: Should a Business be Required to Disclose its Financial Distress?" (with Prof. Dwight Golann), Boston Bar Journal, 1986
• "Recoupment of AFDC Overpayments Permissible Where 'Disregarded' Income Available to Offset Assistance Reduction", Case Comment, 13 Suffolk U.L. Rev., Spring, 1979

Classes and Seminars

• "Stalking the Elusive Electron: Developing Electronic Evidence", American Bar Association, Annual Convention, 2002
• Deposition Skills, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 1990 - 1992
• Handling Age Discrimination Cases, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 1992
• Employment Law Seminar, Massachusetts Bar Association, 1992
• Adjunct Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School
• Employment Law Specialist, University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute
• Speaker, Trends in MCAD Discrimination Decisions, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Foundation, 2002
• Speaker, Ethics and Electronic Communications, American Bar Association Labor and Employment Section, Technology Committee, May 15, 2002 - May 17, 2002
• Panelist, Recent Developments in Federal Employment Law, Massachusetts Bar Association, 2001
• Panelist, Conference on Rules to cover Computer-base Discovery, Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the Rules of Civil Procedure, United States Courts, 2000
• Panelist, MCAD Mock Trial Program, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Foundation, 2000
• Panelist, MCAD Certification Training Program, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Foundation, 1999
• Panelist, MCAD Regulations Training, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Foundation, 1999
• Speaker, Sexual Harassment Seminar, Associated Industries of Massachusetts, 1999
• Panelist, Recent Developments in Disability Law, American Bar Association, October 22, 1998
• Panelist, Duty of Fair Representation, MBA Lunchtime Seminar, 1998
• Panelist, Employment Discrimination Update 97, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Foundation, 1997
• Panelist, Annual Employment Law Conference, Massachusetts Bar Association, 1992

West Practice Categories

Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Civil Rights, Sexual Harassment, Discrimination, Employment Law -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employer, Labor Law, Litigation & Appeals