Bronwyn L. Roberts

Partner

  • Bronwyn L. Roberts
  • Phone: +1 857 488 4235

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  • Duane Morris LLP
    100 High Street, Suite 2400
    Boston, MA 02110-1724
    USA

Bronwyn L. Roberts handles commercial and employment matters for clients ranging from early-stage startups to Fortune 100 companies. She has a broad-based practice in the area of employment, helping clients to minimize risk and resolve disputes through practical employment solutions and, when necessary, litigation. She has conducted numerous high-profile, sensitive investigations of employee misconduct and disloyalty, and she has helped guide employers through difficult resolutions.

Bronwyn represents technology and life sciences businesses in employment litigation matters, including the defense of employment discrimination cases, restrictive covenant litigation, wrongful discharge cases, wage and hour claims, employment contract matters, and trade secret and noncompetition cases. She is a first chair trial lawyer with extensive courtroom experience, and she regularly appears before state and federal courts, as well as the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, for which she is an advisory board member advising the Governor and the Commission on policy matters.

Bronwyn counsels businesses on employment matters, including the preparation of human resource policies, hiring and recruiting, wage and hour compliance, worker classification, mobility issues, whistleblower allegations, discrimination, harassment and reductions in force. Bronwyn regularly conducts, directs and advises on workplace investigations. She also provides corporate training on various employment issues.

Bronwyn is a member of the Labor and Employment Law and Commercial Litigation sections of the Boston Bar Association. She is a 1997 cum laude graduate of Suffolk University Law School and a graduate of Tufts University.

Representative Matters

  • Partnering with experienced in-house counsel at large companies to manage employment-related issues

  • Working with small companies and startups to implement employment policies and procedures to protect intellectual property and knowledge capital

  • Managing internal c-suite investigation

  • Assisting firm clients with hiring, firing, performance management, and sensitive employee matters

  • Offering first chair defense of employment claims, including jury trials

  • Counseling clients on and litigating employee mobility issues, including enforcement of employee noncompete agreements upon termination and risk management relating to hiring

  • Providing defense of government misclassification audits related to on-demand (gig economy) businesses

  • Performing pre-acquisition due diligence, negotiation and drafting of transaction agreements, and preparation of employment and retention agreements

Admissions

  • Massachusetts
  • New Hampshire
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
  • U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Education

  • Suffolk University Law School, J.D., 1997
  • Tufts University, B.S., 1993

Experience

  • Duane Morris LLP
    - Partner, 2007-2018; 2024-present
    - Associate, 2000-2006

  • Cooley LLP
    - Special Counsel, 2018-2024
  • Lane Altman & Owens LLP, Boston, Massachusetts
    - Associate, 1997-2000

Professional Activities

  • Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD)
    - Advisory Board, appointed by Governor Charles D. Baker, 2016-present

  • Duane Morris Women's Impact Network for Success
    -Member

  • Boston Bar Association

  • Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts

Honors and Awards

  • Listed in Super Lawyers for Employment Litigation, 2013-2018

  • Named a Top 100 Attorney in Massachusetts by Super Lawyers, 2017

  • Named a Top 50 Women Attorneys in New England by Super Lawyers, 2017

  • Named a Top 50 Women Attorneys in Massachusetts by Super Lawyers, 2014-2017

  • Honoree, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly 2016 Top Women of Law
  • Named a Massachusetts Rising Star in the field of employment litigation, 2005-2011

Civic and Charitable Activities

  • Member, Board of Overseers at The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2016-present

  • Member, Board of Ambassadors for The Home for Little Wanderers, 2013-Present
  • Member, Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers Hearing Committees, 2010-2015
  • Board Member, Beacon Hill Nursery School, 2009-2010
  • Tufts University Alumni Association Regional Programs Committee, 2005-2006

Selected Publications