Join WTS-Boston's Professional Development Committee for an evening with MG+M Law on Demystifying the Legal World. MG+M Law will provide big picture overviews and tokens of why internal/external legal teams are not to be feared, but here to help. Presentation material will focus on the following four topics:
- general employment trends, including independent contractor status of laborers v. employees, potentials for class actions, day to day employment areas of concern in corporations;
- commercial litigation and biometric policies (recent changes following a large holding in the middle of the country);
- general liability trends in transportation and risk mitigation; and
- information management, including document/electronic storage retention, legal holds, privacy rights, and data protection.
This is a hybrid event - people will have the option to attend in-person or via Zoom. Snacks and refreshments will be provided for in-person attendees.
MG+M Law Presentors
Stephanie Chesney
Stephanie Chesney is an experienced litigator with significant experience defending a wide variety of civil cases from pre-suit through trial. Her experience includes representing clients in a variety of business and commercial litigation matters, including employment
matters, general liability, education, transportation, products liability, construction, and premises liability. Stephanie also handles professional liability matters in the defense of health care providers and institutions. She has extensive courtroom experience defending claims in the state and federal courts of Massachusetts and Maine. Stephanie has additional experience providing risk transfer and tender advice to clients, as well as advising regarding risk mitigation strategies.
Rachel Moynihan
Rachel is a partner in the Boston office with over 15 years of experience representing clients in complex civil litigation matters. She focuses her practice in commercial litigation, employment law and product liability. Her clients include health care institutions, restaurant and hospitality companies, transportation industries, vehicle franchises, and medical and pharmaceutical leaders. In addition to institutional clients, Rachel also represents individual executives, business partners and health care providers and practices on a variety of employment, partnership dispute, and professional liability matters.
Marissa Morte
Marissa Morte advises companies and individuals on a variety of complex civil litigation and general corporate matters. Her practice focuses on general business litigation, commercial law, products liability and toxic tort liability. She supports businesses through all stages of a dispute. This includes handling pre-litigation matters such as drafting contracts and corporate documents, as well as overseeing mergers and acquisitions. Marissa also has vast experience handling issues that arise during litigation. She has assisted companies in the resolution of commercial disputes in a variety of practice areas, including real estate, construction, trucking and transportation, employment, intellectual property, bankruptcy, and environmental issues.
Meredith Stivers
Meredith Stivers is an associate in the firm's Boston office. She focuses her practice on aerospace and products liability matters. Prior to joining the firm, Meredith worked for a United States Congressman, and at the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General. She was also a writer for a criminal defense and family law blog. During law school, Meredith interned for two summers in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority legal department and was a full-year intern in the Administrative Law Division of the Government Bureau of the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General. She is a member of the Women's, American, Massachusetts, and Boston Bar Associations, and WTS International.