James P. Reidy - Manchester, NH

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • New England Law, Boston, Massachusetts, 1989
    J.D.
    Honors: cum laude
    Honors: New England Scholar

• Non Legal Education

  • Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, 1981
    M.P.A.
  • Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1980
    B.A.

Current Employment Position(s)

• Shareholder

Classes and Seminars

• Featured speaker and emcee at the annual Granite State Human Resources conferences
  
• Featured speaker at SHRM Annual Legal and Legislation (Washington, DC) Conference
  
• Featured speaker at SHRM Annual Conference
  
• Keynote Presenter, Twin State (NH/VT) HR Conference

Pro Bono Activities

• Chair, New Hampshire High Tech Alliance’s Human Resources Exchange
• Regular contributor, HR Power Hour
• Vice President of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs, Manchester Area Human Resources Association
• Former Legislative Affairs Chair/current At-Large Member, HR State Council of New Hampshire
• Graduate of 2006 Class of Leadership New Hampshire
• Board member, Business and Industry Association (NH)
• Member, Society for Human Resources (SHRM) External Speaker Bureau

Published Works

Articles

• Adjusting to workplace laws under Trump
  
• NH Business: Overtime pay & non-compete rules may change this summer
  
• Navigating the Post-COVID Workplace
  
• Can employees be required to get the Covid-19 vaccine?
  
• If a Picture Paints a Thousand Words, Why Can’t I Zoom Interview?
  
• New EEOC Guidance Clarifies ADA Protections Related to Opioids
• Managing Political Speech in the Office
• Tom Brady and a Cautionary Tale for Employers
• A Careful Balance: Managing Political Activity and Speech at Work
• NH’s Legislative Roundup
• Marijuana and the Modern Workplace
• When Free Speech and Employment Clash
• Live Free and Get High?
• 10 HR Lessons from the Patriots Winning Ways
• Legal and Legislative Update September 2018: Recent Updates to New Hampshire Workplace Laws
• An Employers Guide to Disciplining Difficult Employees
• Are Employer Drug-Testing Programs Obsolete?
• If Sex Harassment Claims Weren’t “Unsettling” Enough
• Legal and Legislative Update June 2018: Gender Identity Added to NH’s Anti-Discrimination Laws
• Legal and Legislative Update March 2018: Are NH Employers Ready for these Potential Workplace Changes?
• 2017 Top Ten List of Wage and Hour Violations in New Hampshire
• Legal and Legislative Update October 2017: Workplace Bills Introduced in the NH Legislature
• Legal and Legislative Update September 2017: Texas Court Finally Rules on Proposed Overtime Changes
• Legal and Legislative Update September 2017
• One Step Closer to Robots Taking Over
• Legal and Legislative Update June 2017
• How not to handle terminations and layoffs – What HR professionals and managers can learn from the United Airlines fiasco
• Labor & Employment Law: Workplace Laws Proposed in Washington and Concord
• Legal and Legislative Update March 2017
• Yours, Mine and Hours: Making Cents of Common Wage and Hour Violations

Bar Admissions

• New Hampshire, 1989
• U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit, 1989
• U.S. District Court District of New Hampshire, 1989
• U.S. Federal Courts
• Massachusetts

Other Affiliations

• Massachusetts Bar Association (Member)
• New Hampshire Bar Association (Member)
• American Bar Association (Member)
• Labor and Employment Law sections of Lex Mundi (Member)
• American College of Employment Lawyers (Fellow)
• American Bar Association Foundation (Fellow)
• Employers Counsel Network; New Hampshire/New England law letter (Member/Editor)