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Get Smart: Employment Law Traps for the Unwary for the Start-Up Venture
from MIT Enterprise Forum - Cambridge
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Thursday, November 6, 2008, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Mark Burak, a partner in the employment group of noted technology law firm Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton, will discuss key employment law issues and traps for the unwary in start up technology ventures. Topics to be discussed include how to properly establish employment relationships, what to do to help protect IP, avoiding wage problems and misclassifying employees, handling employee terminations and minimizing risk of employment claims.
Session Leader:
Mark Burak
An AV-rated employment lawyer, Mark represents employers before administrative agencies and in state and federal courts in defense of sexual harassment, discrimination, wrongful termination, wage-hour, ERISA disputes, and other employment-related claims, and in the litigation of non-compete and trade secret matters.
Mark advises employers in all aspects of employment law with a focus on implementing preventive employment practices. He counsels employers in areas of sexual harassment, supervisory skills, EEO training, employment and human resource policy development, employee discipline and terminations, severance, privacy issues, leave, disability and family medical leave, wage-hour and other employment issues, as well as transactional related matters. His clients span a number of industries including software and high-tech, construction, retail, health care, manufacturing, and professional employer organizations.
Mark also regularly represents high-level executives in employment-related issues including negotiation of employment agreements and advice on exit issues.
He is a member of the Steering Committee for the Labor and Employment Section of the Boston Bar Association and co-chairs the Equal Employment Opportunity Subcommittee. He is also a member of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM) Human Resource Committee, and he frequently writes and lectures on employment-related issues. Before joining the firm, Mark was a partner in the Boston office of Nixon Peabody LLP.
Mark graduated magna cum laude from Boston University School of Law in 1991. He received his bachelor of business administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1987.
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