Philip Gordon is an experienced employment attorney, and serves as the Managing Partner of The Gordon Law Group, LLP.

Honored as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer in 2006 for the third consecutive year (as published in Boston Magazine and in Massachusetts Super Lawyers, Nov. 2006), and Top 100 Lawyers in Massachusetts in 2005.

Practice Areas

Philip's employment practice focuses on the employee, representing employees in every aspect of the employment relationship, with particular attention to those matters related to compensation.  These include claims for overtime pay, commissions, vacation benefits, back wages, break time and bonuses, as well as stock options and other forms of equity.  These also include misclassification of employees as independent contractors, treatment of non-exempt employees as exempt, and enforcement of executive liability.

In this regard, Philip has a great deal of experience in wage and hour litigation, representing employees before state and federal courts in their collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Massachusetts Wage Act. 

Philip also frequently represents executives in their employment negotiations, from their initial employment through their promotion, moves resulting from mergers & acquisitions, and finally their separation and severance arrangements.

Philip has acted as lead counsel in federal and state court and administrative proceedings; acted as lead negotiator in direct and facilitated dispute resolution sessions; and negotiated many employment offers, contracts, releases and severance agreements.

Recognitions

40 Under 40 Award Recipient, 2006 by Boston Business Journal

Massachusetts Super Lawyer 2004, 2005, 2006 (as published by Boston Magazine and Massachusetts Super Lawyers)

Top 100 Lawyers in Massachusetts, 2005 (as published by Boston Magazine and Massachusetts Super Lawyers)

Who's Who in Executives and Professionals (Global/National Register, since 2005)

Experience

Prior to founding the Gordon Law Group, Philip served in the following capacities:

GenuOne, Inc. - Chief Legal Officer (General Counsel) and Executive Vice President.  GenuOne is an anti-counterfeiting company recently acquired by OpSec Security and now traded on the London Stock Exchange. 

Hale and Dorr LLP (now WilmerHale) - Associate, Corporate Department.

Justice Charles Fried, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts - Judicial Law Clerk

Education

B.A., Bowdoin College

J.D., Suffolk University Law School, cum laude

Suffolk University Law Review, Technical Editor

Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Team - First Place, Northeast Law Schools Regional Championship

Recent Lectures/Panels/Government Testimony

(prior to 2005 available upon request)

Philip is a frequent lecturer and panelist. Below is a selection of recent appearances:

Testimony on elder affairs before the Executive Office of Health and Human Services  (February 15, 2007)

Guest Speaker, “How to Guide a Constituent through a Wage Complaint: Employee Rights and Employer Obligations,” sponsored by Senator Thomas McGee, Senate Chair of Labor & Workforce Development (February 6, 2006)

Keynote Speaker, Lowell Workers' Forum (Jan. 10, 2006)

Moderator, Boston City Council Citywide Candidates Forum (featuring 7 of 8 candidates for office, including the incumbent Council President) (Oct. 11, 2005)

Keynote Speaker, “It’s Not Just the Money”, at a meeting of the 128 Innovation Capital Group (Sept. 8, 2005); presentation co-authored with Neil Wallack, founding General Partner, Vision Media Investors

Testimony on proposed “Act to Protect Employees from Unscrupulous Employers”; hearings on S. 928 and H. 3775, before the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development (Massachusetts House and Senate) (June 15, 2005)

Guest Lecturer, “Corporate Growth” at Technion University – Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management (Jan. 2005, Haifa, Israel)

Recent Publications

Recent Appearance

Recently Quoted In

Honors

Young Leadership Award from the Combined Jewish Philanthropies, given annually for outstanding community service

McDermott Award from Suffolk University Law School , given annually to outstanding alumni

Community/Pro Bono Work

Full Circle: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, pro bono legal counsel

Wage and Hour Project of the Volunteer Lawyers Project, Member, Senior Partners for Justice

Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Member, Board of Governors

Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA), Member, Board of Directors

Jewish Community Relations Council, Vice Chairman of Public Policy Committee

ALPFA, Member, Corporate Advisory Board

American Jewish Committee, Executive Board Member (Greater Boston Chapter) and Member of National Council

Maccabi Games 2004, Chairman of Hockey

Admissions

Massachusetts

New York

United States Supreme Court

Federal District Court