R. LILIANA BALDWIN

Lili Baldwin focuses her practice on employment law and litigation with an expertise in equal employment opportunity and the area of federal employment discrimination. Lili represents and advises employers on many workplace issues. Prior to joining Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP Lili was a Senior Trial Attorney with the Boston Area Office of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. While with the EEOC, Lili was responsible for the litigation of individual and class employment discrimination cases on behalf of the EEOC in federal courts throughout New York, New England, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands – all within the New York District of the EEOC. She was also responsible for coordinating efforts with the local Fair Employment Practice Agencies (FEPAs) in each of the states contained within the New York District, including the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD).

Lili is a bilingual attorney (Spanish/English) and has used her language skills throughout her legal career, honing her skills as a bilingual attorney during a year long assignment to the EEOC’s San Juan Area Office. She has had significant experience working with non-English speaking and limited English proficient populations in litigation settings (including ASL) and has been trained in federal court interpretation and translation through the University of Arizona’s nationally renowned Agnese Haury Institute.

In addition to Lili’s litigation experience at the EEOC, her experience also includes the drafting and revision of workplace policies and procedures, working closely with federal investigators to evaluate incoming charges and providing legal assistance on investigations, as well as conducting training, educational and outreach events to employee, employer, trade associations, and advocacy groups, the private bar and other federal agencies.

Practice Areas

Employment law and litigation
Federal employment discrimination law

Bar Admissions

Massachusetts (1998)
U.S. District Court of Massachusetts (1999)
U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit (1999).

Community and Academic Experience

In addition to her legal practice, Lili has a passion for teaching and student mentoring. She has participated in various mentoring programs for students in different educational settings over her career and she has been a professor of legal research and writing at New England School of Law and a J.D. Advisor at Boston University Law School.

Selected Presentations and Training

• Practicing Before the EEOC, Massachusetts Bar Association
• Time off in Massachusetts, Lorman Educational Services
• Injured and Disabled Employees in the Workplace, Maine Bar Association
• Race Discrimination in Employment, San Juan, Puerto Rico (Bilingual Presentation)
• Language Rights in the Workplace, New York, New York
• Equality Roundtable, Montréal, Canada
• Caregiver Discrimination, Boston Bar Association
• Making and Breaking Severance Agreements, Boston Bar Association
• Union Responsibility for Discrimination, Rhode Island University
• Preventing Discrimination in the Workplace: Are You in Compliance?, Massachusetts Extended Care Federation, Boston
• Interviewed and quoted by National Public Radio, various national newspapers and electronic media including The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, and Lawyer’s Weekly. Appeared on Univisión’s Enfoque Latino, and PBS’s Greater Boston with Emily Rooney

Education

Northeastern University School of Law, J.D. (1998)
The Johns Hopkins University, B.A. (1994)