Suffield Resident Is Named a Massachusetts Super Lawyer

Six lawyers for the Springfield, MA labor and employment law firm Skoler, Abbott & Presser, — including a Suffield resident — have been selected to the 2014 Massachusetts Super Lawyers list.

No more than 5 percent of lawyers in Massachusetts are selected by Super Lawyers for the honorable designation. All awarded attorneys from the firm were selected to the list in the field of employment and labor law.

Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area.

Jay M. Presser has more than 35 years of experience litigating employment cases and has successfully defended employers in civil actions and jury trials and handled cases in all areas of employment law, including discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful discharge, wage hour, FMLA, ERISA, and defamation. He has won appeals before the Supreme Judicial Court and the First and Second Circuit Courts of Appeals and represented employers in hundreds of arbitration cases arising under collective bargaining agreements.

Contributed photo: Jay M. Presser.

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