Edward N. Perry Biography - Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP

EDWARD N. PERRY

Ned's practice in Massachusetts is concentrated in the areas of employment relations and civil rights. He has conducted administrative hearings before both state and federal agencies and self-regulatory organizations, participated in trials in state and federal courts, and has handled appeals up through both the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Ned represents companies, schools and individuals in a broad range of business and employment matters. His expertise includes:

• Contracts
• Discrimination Issues
• Arbitration and Mediation Matters
• Administrative Proceedings

Prior Experience

Prior to the formation of Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP, Ned practiced at Sullivan Weinstein & McQuay. Before that, Ned was a partner in the litigation department of Perkins, Smith & Cohen, LLP where his practice included employment relations and securities arbitration and commercial litigation. Prior to that, Ned was a litigation attorney in the Office of the Solicitor, U.S. Department of Labor in Washington D.C. handling employment matters with national significance and defending national multi-agency discrimination claims. While at the Department of Labor, he received the U.S. Department of Labor Special Achievement and Meritorious Achievement Awards.

Education

Vanderbilt University School of Law, J.D., 1975

• Editor, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Williams College, B.A., 1968

Professional and Community Affiliations

Ned is a member of the bars of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, and the United States Court of Appeals for the First, Second and Ninth Circuits. He is a member of the American and Massachusetts Bar Associations.

Ned is presently serving his ninth term as the Town Moderator for the Town of Concord, Massachusetts and is the Treasurer of the Massachusetts Moderators Association.

Ned served three terms on the Board of Trustees of Northfield Mount Hermon School in Northfield, Massachusetts; two terms on the Board of Directors of the Alumni Program Council of Independent Schools; and one term on the Board of Directors of World Neighbors, Inc. in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is presently serving on the Board of Directors of the Bemis Company in Neenah, Wisconsin, as the President of the Community Agencies Corporation in Concord, Massachusetts and on the Board of Directors of the Union Club in Boston, Massachusetts.