Gregory L. Demers

Greg Demers is a member of the employment, executive compensation, and employee benefits practice, supporting clients in a wide range of labor and employment matters. His practice includes pre-litigation counseling and risk assessment, deal support, litigation and dispute resolution. Greg regularly represents employers in complex employment litigation matters. This includes disputes concerning restrictive covenants and trade secrets misappropriation, wage and hour and ERISA class actions, discrimination matters, whistleblower actions, and lawsuits brought by highly compensated senior executives. Gregs advice is informed by a deep commercial litigation background. He has represented private equity firms and their portfolio companies, hedge funds, educational institutions, and individual officers and directors in a broad range of disputes. Greg advises on various employment law issues that arise in corporate transactions, including deal diligence, transition planning, and the drafting of employment-related agreements. He also counsels companies and senior management on employment and executive compensation arrangements, including hiring, separations, employee transitions and restrictive covenants, and he has guided numerous employers through sensitive internal investigations. In addition to his employment work, Greg also maintains an active pro bono practice. He has successfully represented asylum-seekers fleeing from political persecution, parents seeking custody of their children, and low-income tenants facing disability discrimination. Most recently, Greg defended a nonprofit social service provider against discrimination claims in Massachusetts Superior Court, obtaining a complete dismissal at the pleadings stage. Prior to joining the firm, Greg clerked for Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and United States District Judge Michael Ponsor in the District of Massachusetts.