Bert Ware Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston

AELC is an invitation-only membership organization limited to the nation’s top management-side labor and employment attorneys and in-house counsel, founded in 1993 by leading labor and employment lawyers representing employers in the US. AELC serves as a meeting ground for lawyers committed to professional excellence in the resourceful and principled representation of US employers. Membership is open to experienced and accomplished attorneys whose practice principally involves the representation of an employer or employers at a significant level of responsibility. Past panelist and active member.

Greater Boston Area

With 37 years of experience, I have 20 years of senior in-house experience at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and extensive experience as outside counsel in delivering strategic/tactical advice, counseling, and guidance to C-Suite executives, HR professionals, and staff support concerning a very broad range of employment-related issues.My experience includes defense of single- and multi-party employment-related litigation in courts, before FEPAs, and arbitral panels, related conciliations, settlement and resolution negotiations, and mediations. I also have substantial experience in designing/implementing enterprise-wide or business unit-specific on-boarding, contract negotiation, design, drafting, and execution, and background screening programs. My experience extends to senior executive performance management issues, the design/implementation of employee retention strategies during divestitures, RIFs, separation agreements, proactive protection & support of cyber-forensic review, and recapture of IP, crisis & reputational risk management, employment law problem solving, legal risk avoidance & mitigation. As a part of Jackson Lewis’ Corporate Governance & Internal Investigations practice group, I work with clients on both neutral third-party independent and client-directed internal investigations. I also assist clients as a part of Jackson Lewis’ Workplace Training practice group with regard to training, and policy/procedure development. I assist clients as a part of Jackson Lewis’ Corporate Diversity Counseling practice group in diversity representation, complex civil rights reviews and employment law audits, as well as dispute resolution, investigations and the defense of class action lawsuits involving allegations of race-, gender-, and age-based discrimination and harassment law, confidential litigation assessments, internal legal vulnerability assessments, and assists clients in developing “best practice”, benchmarking, and diversity enhancement action plans.

Greater Boston Area

Resident in Bressler’s New York, New York offices. Provide strategic and tactical advice and counsel to company executives and HR professionals, principally on complex and sophisticated management-side employment-related issues in the financial services and other industries. Counsel clients on litigation filed against employers in federal and state courts, before EEOC and state FEPAs, and before FINRA and AAA arbitral panels. Responsible for the defense of single- and multiple-party employment litigation matters. Serve as a strategic legal advisor and counsel, providing tactical and strategic human resources and employment-related advice and guidance to the Firm’s clients.

Greater Boston Area

Greater Boston Area

Greater Boston Area

New York, New York

Doctor Of Law (J.D.)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History And Political Science