Morgan, Brown & Joy’s Jaclyn L. Kugell and Andrea E. Zoia to Participate in MCLE’s 24th Annual Employment Law Conference

Morgan, Brown & Joy attorneys Jaclyn L. Kugell and Andrea E. Zoia will participate in the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education’s (MCLE) 24th Annual Employment Law Conference on December 3, 2021. Kugell is co-chairing the conference and will provide opening remarks.  Zoia will be a panelist on, “The Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave Law: Lessons from the First Year.” This comprehensive conference will provide insights on what’s new regarding the practice of employment law, including legislative updates and tips from employment mediators. To learn more and register, visit here. 

Kugell is an established employment lawyer who counsels business owners and management through virtually every scenario surrounding the employer-employee relationship. As Chair of Morgan, Brown & Joy’s Management Committee, she brings strong leadership skills to clients, helping them to make important business decisions and manage their operations efficiently while minimizing risks. Her practice encompasses daily employment counseling, training, employment litigation, collective bargaining and labor arbitration. Kugell proactively works with clients to avoid allegations of wrongdoing, carefully advising on ways to run operations that meet business objectives and achieve compliance. 

Zoia handles a variety of employment matters facing businesses. A significant part of her practice involves providing day-to-day employment law counsel and advice. She advises in-house counsel and human resource professionals with wage and hour issues, workplace investigations, drug testing, hiring practices, employment policies and handbooks, reductions in force, and employee leave matters. Zoia also conducts onsite trainings on the prevention of unlawful harassment and on other employment matters in the workplace. Her litigation experience includes defending employers in a wide range of workplace claims including employment discrimination, retaliation, wrongful discharge, breach of contract, and wage and hour class actions.

MCLE is the Massachusetts legal community’s premier provider of hands-on educational programs and reference materials. Its particular focus is applied law: practical, highly concrete training for attorneys in the essential elements of professional practice. MCLE presents more than 250 programs annually, in a variety of in-person and online formats and published more than 160 practice manuals. 

About Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP

Morgan, Brown & Joy is among the largest management-side employment law firms in New England, representing a wide range of Fortune 100 corporations, educational and health care institutions and small businesses across all sectors of the economy. The firm’s attorneys are known for anticipating and finding solutions to the ever-expanding range of employment-related legal issues in order to avoid the time and cost of litigation. When litigation becomes necessary, the firm aggressively defends its clients and has a proven record of success.