Education:

Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA, J.D., cum laude, 1983

University of Delaware, Newark, DE, B.A. Philosophy, cum laude, 1980

Admissions:

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

United States District Court, District of Massachusetts

United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit 

Affiliations:

Boston Bar Association, Co-Chair Labor and Employment Section

Massachusetts Bar Association Labor and Employment Section

Woman’s Bar Association

American Bar Association, Equal Employment Opportunity Committee

National Employment Law Association

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, Board of Directors

Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council, Board of Directors

Presentations and Awards:

  • "The Power List," Most Influential Attorneys of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (2009) 
  • New England Super Lawyer, Top 50 Women Lawyers in New England (2009)
  • New England Super Lawyer, Employment Litigation--Plaintiff (2009)
  • Faculty, Employment Law Trial Boot Camp, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (2007)
  • Faculty, 34th Annual Robert Fuchs Labor Law Conference, NLRB/U.S. Department of Labor, Center for Advanced Legal Studies (2006)
  • Faculty, Employment Law Conference, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (2005)
  • Faculty, Avoiding Malpractice for Employment Lawyers, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (2005)
  • Faculty, Emerging Issues in Employment Law, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (2005)
  • Faculty, Human Resources Law Update, Sterling Education Services (2004)
  • Faculty, BBA Program on Creative Claims and Defenses: Employment Law on the Edge (2004)
  • Faculty, Top Mistakes Employment Lawyers Make and How to Avoid Them, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (2004)
  • Massachusetts Super Lawyer (2005 - 2007)

Articles:

National Law Journal - Key Cases Help Fuel Small Law Firm's Expansion 
An Update on Tort Issues in Employment Termination Cases 

Strategy Considerations for Plaintiffs In Deciding Whether to Remove Cases from the MCAD 

Bringing Sexual Harassment Cases: A Practical Approach

Jody L. Newman

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"I help clients distinguish the illegal from the merely unfair job actions and, where an injustice exists, to devise the best strategy to resolve it."

Jody Newman is the managing partner at Dwyer & Collora, LLP concentrating her practice on employment disputes, primarily representing plaintiffs.

Ms. Newman specializes in cases of gender bias, including sexual harassment and handles all kinds of employment-related contract, tort, and discrimination cases. She is experienced in alternative dispute resolution and has successfully tried employment cases before arbitrators and juries and on appeal.

Ms. Newman has been practicing litigation for over 25 years. She began her career at Dwyer & Collora, LLP, and became a partner in 1993. She is the Co-Chair of the Boston Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section Steering Committee and serves on the Boards of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, the Woman's Bar Association and Greater Boston Legal Services.

Areas of Representation:

Ms. Newman specializes in employment litigation representing individuals and companies in a wide variety of disputes, including employment-related contract, tort and discrimination cases.  Jody Newman has extensive experience in civil litigation before state and federal courts, including jury trials, and government agencies and is skilled in alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and collaborative law.

Recent Cases:

  • City of Lowell v. Patricia Kealy and MCAD (2006) (won large gender bias award at Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and successfully defended judgment through two rounds of appeals, including recent award of pre-judgment interest more than doubling the original award).
  • Jayraj v. Propharmeucticals, Inc. (U.S .Dept. of Labor, 2004) (successfully tried first Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower case in Boston regional office).
  • Gorlier v. Whittier Street Health Center (2004) co-counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union (represented individuals challenging English-only policy, resulting in conciliation agreement and consent decree with Equal Employment Opportunity Commission).
  • Lipchitz v. Raytheon (Mass 2001) (following large jury verdict in glass ceiling gender bias case, Supreme Judicial Court clarified jury charge in discrimination cases and case resolved through mediation).