Brendan is an experienced and creative litigator, advisor, and counselor to public, private, start-ups, and closely-held companies. Brendan also represents high-level executives in the negotiation of their employment agreements and compensation. Brendan dedicates a substantial portion of his practice to employment litigation, regularly practicing before state and federal courts, arbitrators and administrative agencies. Brendan focuses on wage and hour class and collective actions, restrictive covenant matters, False Claims Act cases, and shareholder disputes among the owners of closely-held companies. In addition, Brendan regularly litigates sexual harassment, disability, retaliation, and other employment discrimination and whistleblower suits.
Brendan has a wide range of experience in solving the labor and employment issues that employers face on a daily basis. Brendan regularly counsels employers on, among other things, employment and separation agreements, employee handbooks, restrictive covenants, providing reasonable accommodations to employees with disabilities, workplace safety, conducting internal investigations of employee complaints, and employee leave of absences.
In addition to the firm’s employment, labor and benefits group, Brendan is also a member of the litigation and construction groups. As a member of the firm’s construction group, Brendan represents various contractors on OSHA and prevailing wage matters. Moreover, Brendan works closely with the firm’s healthcare and corporate groups to advise and consult on corporate governance and transactional matters.
Brendan is a frequent lecturer on the ever-evolving federal and state employment laws, with a focus on presentations concerning wage and hour and restrictive covenant issues.
More Legal and Business Bylines From Brendan J. Lowd
- The DOL Issues a Final Rule Returning the Independent Contractor Classification Analysis under the FLSA to a More Employee-Friendly Test, Forcing Employers to Think Critically About Their Use of Independent Contractors in the Workplace - (Posted On Thursday, January 25, 2024)
- Pay Transparency Law on the Horizon for Massachusetts Employers - (Posted On Monday, October 30, 2023)
- Supreme Court Clarifies the Meaning “Salary Basis” Under Federal Overtime Law - (Posted On Friday, March 03, 2023)
- Employers Making FLSA Administrative Exemption Classification Determinations Should Make Note of a New First Circuit Case - (Posted On Monday, February 13, 2023)
- Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Holds That Wages Due Solely Under the Federal Overtime Statute (FLSA) Are Not Trebled Under the Massachusetts Wage Act - (Posted On Thursday, April 28, 2022)
- The Massachusetts High Court Holds That Employers Are Now Automatically Liable For Treble Wage Damages for Any Untimely Paid Final Wages - (Posted On Friday, April 15, 2022)
- Part Eight of the COVID-19 Roadmap Series: Avoiding COVID-19 Wage & Hour and Labor Law Pitfalls - (Posted On Wednesday, May 20, 2020)
- Class Action Suits Against Massachusetts Car Dealers on the Rise - (Posted On Tuesday, July 18, 2017)
- March Sadness: How Not to Drop the Ball When Reduction-in-Force is on Your Schedule - (Posted On Monday, March 27, 2017)
- 2016 Massachusetts Employment Law Year In Review - (Posted On Monday, March 06, 2017)