N|P partner Gary Nolan recently won an important arbitration victory on behalf of NEPBA Local 570, which represents the Norfolk County Correctional Supervisor’s Union. In order to ensure that certain individuals do not receive special compensation not otherwise available to all superior officers, the union and the Sheriff agreed to phase out so-called out-of-rank pay […]

Massachusetts Lawyer’s Weekly, the leading legal newspaper in the Commonwealth, recently did an in-depth, front page article on one of our cases – NEPBA Local 20 v. Town of Chelmsford, where the Town’s agents were found to have participated in illegal ex-parte communications with a JLMC arbitration panelist, and where it was determined that the […]

The Massachusetts Department of Labor Relations this week issued a 50-page stinging rebuke of the Town of Chelmsford’s municipal management, finding that its Town Manager and Counsel unlawfully communicated with an arbitration panel member in an attempt to gain confidential information in order to influence an arbitration award, and also by misleading the Town’s Finance […]