Morgan, Brown & Joy’s Jaclyn L. Kugell Co-Chairs MCLE’s 27th Annual Employment Law Conference; Maura D. McLaughlin Presents on Pay Equity and Pay Transparency

Morgan, Brown & Joy partners Jaclyn L. Kugell and Maura D. McLaughlin will present at the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) 27th Annual Employment Law Conference on December 6, 2024. Kugell is the conference co-chair. McLaughlin will present on the panel, “Pay Equity and Pay Transparency.” 

Held both in-person and online, the 2024 MCLE Employment Law Conference will cover a variety of critical employment law topics and trends, including the effect of new statutes, regulations, and MCAD policies and procedures. To learn more and register, visit here

Kugell is an established employment lawyer who counsels business owners and management through virtually every scenario surrounding the employer-employee relationship. As Chair of Morgan, Brown & Joy’s Management Committee, she brings strong leadership skills to clients, helping them to make important business decisions and manage their operations efficiently while minimizing risks. Her practice encompasses daily employment counseling, training, employment litigation, collective bargaining and labor arbitration. Kugell proactively works with clients to avoid allegations of wrongdoing, carefully advising on ways to run operations that meet business objectives and achieve compliance.

McLaughlin is a partner at Morgan, Brown & Joy. She counsels clients on all facets of the employment relationship including hiring, discipline and termination, drafting and revising employee handbooks, preventing workplace harassment and investigating/responding to claims of harassment and discrimination, leaves of absence and accommodation issues, and wage and hour laws. She conducts training on harassment prevention, leaves of absence and absence management and other employment matters and is a graduate of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination Certified Harassment Train-the-Trainer Program. As a result of her substantial experience with the Massachusetts Equal Pay Act, clients concerned about pay equity in the workplace choose to work with McLaughlin to design and implement wage assessments tailored to the client’s workforce size and makeup.

MCLE is the Massachusetts legal community’s premier provider of hands-on educational programs and reference materials. Its particular focus is applied law: practical, highly concrete training for attorneys in the essential elements of professional practice. MCLE presents more than 250 programs annually, in a variety of in-person and online formats and has published more than 160 practice manuals.

About Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP

For over 100 years, Morgan, Brown & Joy has been among the largest management-side labor and employment law firms in New England, representing a wide range of Fortune 100 corporations, educational and health care institutions and small businesses across all sectors of the economy. The firm’s attorneys are known for anticipating and finding solutions to the ever-expanding range of employment-related legal issues in order to avoid the time and cost of litigation. When litigation becomes necessary, the firm aggressively defends its clients and has a proven record of success.