Employment Law 101 

This training is part of our Supervisory Certificate Series and is open for individual registrations.

Many supervisors do not understand how their decisions about employee issues can create liability, not only for the agency but also for themselves personally.  This program will give supervisors basic information about employment law; plus skills and strategies for managing agency staff that can help to avoid employment litigation.

This is a great program for new supervisors learning the material, and seasoned supervisors needing a refresher!

Tim Murphy: Tim specializes in labor relations, union campaigns, collective bargaining and arbitration, employment litigation, and employment counseling. He has been selected as one of the Best Lawyers in America since 2013. In 2015 and 2018 he was honored as the Lawyer of the Year for Litigation – Labor and Employment by Best Lawyers in America. Tim is very active in his community.  He sits on boards of directors for a number of area organizations such as the Springfield Regional Chamber of Commerce, Community Legal Aid, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hampden County. He also is a member of the Finance Committee in Wilbraham where he lives.

Andrew Adams: While attending law school, Andrew was drawn to the intricacies and complexities of the field of labor and employment law.  After receiving his undergraduate degree he enlisted in the United States Navy before eventually returning back home to Hampden County.  For the next six years and throughout law school Andrew worked as a Correctional Officer for the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department, until he left to pursue his passion for the law.  In his final year of law school Andrew was a law clerk at a premier tort litigation firm in Connecticut, but has now found his home at Skoler, Abbott & Presser.