Maura is an associate in the Boston office of Mintz Levin, where she practices in the Employment, Labor and Benefits Section.
Maura represents and counsels clients on a variety of federal and state employment issues, including discrimination and harassment, leaves of absence, employee misconduct, internal workplace investigations, wage and hour matters, workplace health and safety, employee privacy issues, and the enforcement of non-competition agreements and other restrictive covenants. In addition, she has extensive experience drafting and reviewing employment contracts and policies, including executive employment agreements, separation agreements, non-competition, non-solicitation, and non-disclosure agreements, and employee handbooks. Maura also has conducted trainings to educate clients' employees on anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policies and procedures, as well as effective management practices. She also has experience representing clients in employment litigation matters before federal and state courts.
Maura was a summer associate at Mintz Levin in 2005. Before joining the firm, she worked for the Massachusetts Legislature for over six years, and was responsible for drafting legislation and advising legislators on significant policy matters in a variety of areas, including transportation, finance, criminal justice, health care, and education. As a result of her public experience, Maura has extensive knowledge of the special issues relating to government employment and government contractors. As such, she counsels public and private clients on the unique laws and exclusions affecting government and quasi-government employees and private employers conducting business with the government.
Maura is a contributing author to the 2007, 2008, and 2009 editions of the Employment Law chapter of the American Bar Association's Annual Review of Developments in Business and Corporate Litigation. She also co-authored "No Judicial Remedy Left Behind: Fulfilling the Commonwealth's Duty to Educate Its Children After McDuffy and Hancock," Boston B. J., Nov.-Dec. 2007, at 9. In law school, Maura served as Executive Articles Editor of the New England Law Review, and authored "Promulgating Preschool: What Constitutes a "Policy Decision" Under Hancock v. Comm'r of Educ.?," 40 New. Eng. L. Rev. 209 (2005), which was selected as the Law Review's nominee for the national Scribes Award competition.
Maura is admitted to practice in Massachusetts. She earned her B.A., cum laude, from Harvard College in History and Science and her J.D., magna cum laude, from New England School of Law, where she was a Trustees' Academic Scholar, New England Scholar, New England Merit Scholar, and a dean's list student. She also was honored with the New England School of Law Service Award in 2006.