The Massachusetts Employment Lawyers Association (MELA) is a voluntary association of lawyers dedicated to advancing the rights of individual employees in the workplaces of Massachusetts. MELA is affiliated with the National Employment Lawyer's Association. Like our national counterpart, our purpose and goal is to protect and promote the rights of working people through litigation and advocacy on behalf of our clients and through the important work done by our standing committees.

Membership in MELA confers a number of important benefits. Click here to see the benefits.

Announcements:
MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL
Our membership year runs from September through August, so please renew your membership! Please download and fill out a membership form and return it (with your check for dues) to Jonathan M. Feigenbaum, MELA Treasurer, Phillips & Angley, One Bowdoin Square, Boston, MA 02114.

UPCOMING MEETINGS

PLEASE JOIN US on Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 4:30 p.m. for a free training on representing transgender clients presented by the MLGBA Transgender Advocacy Training Team. Program speakers include M. Barusch, who has served as one of the advocates for the Massachusetts Transgender Legal Advocates and on the Steering Committee of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, and Catherine E. Reuben, a partner at Hirsch, Roberts Weinstein LLP in Boston, who concentrates her practice in labor and employment law.

We will meet at our normal meeting location, Rodgers, Powers & Schwartz, which is located on the fifth floor of 18 Tremont Street in Boston.

A FURTHER REMINDER THAT ELECTIONS FOR MELA OFFICERS ARE COMING UP at our June meeting! So be thinking who you would like to see in the leading posts in MELA, and notify the Ad Hoc Nominating Committee, care of Paul Merry, if you wish to nominate someone (including yourself).

We hope to see you there!

Lori Jodoin and Paul Merry,
MELA Program Committee Co-Chairs

MELA meeting dates in the coming months are as follows:

May 20; and June 17.

LOCATION: Unless otherwise noted, all meetings are currently scheduled to be held at the offices of Rodgers, Powers and Schwartz at 18 Tremont Street, 5th Floor in Boston.