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Jody Newman is the managing partner at Dwyer & Collora concentrating her practice on employment disputes, primarily representing plaintiffs.
She specializes in cases of gender bias, including sexual harassment and handles all kinds of employment-related contract, tort, and discrimination cases. She is experienced in alternative dispute resolution and has successfully tried employment cases before arbitrators and juries.
Ms. Newman has been practicing litigation for over 23 years. She began her career at Dwyer & Collora, LLP, and became a partner in 1993. She is the Co-Chair of the Boston Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section Steering Committee and serves on the Boards of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and the Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council.
Areas of Representation:
Ms. Newman specializes in employment litigation representing individuals and companies in a wide variety of disputes, including employment-related contract, tort and discrimination cases. She has extensive experience in civil litigation before state and federal courts, including jury trials, and government agencies and is skilled in alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and collaborative law.
Recent Cases:
City of Lowell v. Patricia Kealy and MCAD (2006) (won large gender bias award at Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and successfully defended judgment through two rounds of appeals, including recent award of pre-judgment interest more than doubling the original award).
Jayraj v. Propharmeucticals, Inc . (U.S .Dept. of Labor, 2004) (successfully tried first Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower case in Boston regional office).
Gorlier v. Whittier Street Health Center (2004) as co-counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union, represented individuals challenging English-only policy, resulting in conciliation agreement and consent decree with Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Lipchitz v. Raytheon (Mass. 2001) (following large jury verdict in glass ceiling gender bias case, Supreme Judicial Court clarified jury charge in discrimination cases and case resolved through mediation).
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