Catherine E. Reuben Biography - Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP
CATHERINE E. REUBEN
Cathy Reuben provides counseling, training, and litigation defense for employers labor and employment matters. Cathy's clients include both private and nonprofit businesses and professional organizations involved in a wide range of industries, including education, technology, healthcare, human service, manufacturing, legal and other professional services, insurance, finance/banking, pharmaceuticals, journalism, retail, and consulting.
Cathy is often quoted in the press on labor and employment law matters, including Lawyer's Weekly, the Boston Globe, and the Today Show. She is ranked in Chambers USA for employment law. Cathy is a frequent speaker on labor and employment law issues. She has chaired seminars and served on panels for a variety of trade, bar, and continuing legal education associations, organizations, and schools. She is an MCAD-certified trainer in discrimination, harassment, and reasonable accommodation.
Cathy is an active participant in the legal community. She is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Budget and Finance committee, and formerly served as Co-Chair of its Labor and Employment Law Section. She is involved in numerous other professional and civic activities and projects, including bar association task forces involved with youth outreach and transgender inclusion.
Practice Areas
- Hiring, discipline and termination
- Discrimination, harassment and retaliation
- Manager training and development
- Union organizing
- Investigations
- Employment contracts, polices, handbooks and forms
- Independent contractor matters
- Overtime, child labor and other wage and hour matters
- Leaves of Absence and reasonable accommodation
- Layoffs and severance agreements
- Non-competition agreements and trade secret protection
- MCAD, EEOC, NLRB, Department of Labor and other state and federal agency proceedings
- Litigation defense in the state, federal and appeals courts
- Transgender rights
- Workplace health and safety
Recognition and Awards
- AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
- Ranked by Chambers USA for labor and employment law
- Named a “Massachusetts Super Lawyer” in Employment & Labor by Boston Magazine
Bar Admissions
Massachusetts (1988), U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts (1989), U.S. Courts of Appeals for First Circuit (1990) and Second Circuit (2000)
Professional Leadership
Massachusetts Bar Association (MBA)
- Budget and Finance Committee
- Labor Section Council
- MBA Delegate to ABA
- Presented at and/or organized numberous educational programs
- Massachusetts Bar Foundation Fellow
- Former Co-Chair of Labor and Employment Section
Boston Bar Association (BBA)
- Former co-chair and current member of Children’s Outreach Task Force
- Present annual seminar on employment rights and responsibilities to high school interns
Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association (MLGBA)
- Member of Committee on Transgender Inclusion Task Force
Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Association (MCLE)
Served as co-Chair of Employment Law Curriculum Advisory Committee Chaired and/or presented at numerous programs, including Mock Trial of an MCAD Case, Employment Law for Business Lawyers and In-House Counsel and Employment Discrimination Update
Contributing Author for Massachusetts Employment Law and Drafting Employment Documents in Massachusetts.
Additional Published Works and Appearances
Frequently quoted in the press, including Lawyer's Weekly, The Boston Globe, The Today Show, ABC News, the Boston Business Journal, ABA Journal, American Public Media: Marketplace Morning Report, New England Cable News Network and Boston Community Access TV on a wide range of labor and employment topics. Story topics include non-competition agreements, arbitration, disability discrimination, temporary employees, internet and e-mail policies, hiring, sexual harassment, transgender rights, domestic partner benefits, same-sex marriage and blogging.
"The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA): Has It Become a Toothless Tiger in the Workplace?" (2/2004) published in Bender's Labor & Employment Bulletin, vol. 4, no. 2
"Hot Potato: Tossing OSHA Questions from the Judicial Realm to the Administrative Forum" coauthored with Melissa D'Alelio (7/2004) published in Bender's Labor & Employment Bulletin, vol. 4, no. 6
"The Politics of E-mail: Ruling Suggests Employers Can Restrict Use of Company E-mail for Union Activities", coauthored with Rita B. Trivedi (6/16/2008), published in New England In-House and Michigan Lawyers Weekly.
Presented educational programs for a wide variety of professional and trade associations, including the American Bar Association, the Massachusetts Food Association, the Massachusetts Council of Human Service Providers, the Real Estate Bar Association, the Association of Developmental Disabilities Providers, and others.
Prior Experience
From 1994 to 2008, Cathy practiced in the Labor and Employment Practice Group at Robinson & Cole, LLP, initially as an associate and, as of 1998, as an equity partner. Prior to that time, she was an associate in the labor and litigation departments at Brown, Rudnick, Freed & Gesmer.
Education
Harvard Law School, J.D., 1988
Third Year Paper: The Creative Employee in the Computer Industry
Amherst College, B.A. Magna Cum Laude in Political Science, 1985
Thesis: Computer Models of Legal Reasoning - A Jurisprudential Analysis
Honors: Phi Beta Kappa; John Woodruff Simpson Law Fellow; Various Music-related awards
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