Terence McCourt

Practice Areas

Labor & Employment

Litigation

Career

Terence P. McCourt is Co-Managing Shareholder of the Boston office and Chairman of its Labor & Employment Practice. He represents a broad range of organizations in all facets of management-side labor and employment law. During more than two decades of practice, Terry has gained a national reputation for his practical, strategic approach to employment law issues.

With wide-ranging litigation experience, Terry handles diverse employment matters, including employment discrimination and wrongful termination cases in state and federal courts, wage and hour compliance, labor arbitration cases, non-competition cases, internal corporate investigations, and National Labor Relations Board proceedings. He also counsels employers concerning day-to-day human resources issues as well as myriad legal requirements in the workplace, particularly related to significant operational changes such as mergers, acquisitions, business relocations or reductions in force.

Terry has wide-ranging governmental experience as the former Deputy Chief Legal Counsel to the Governor of Massachusetts and General Counsel to the Massachusetts Secretary of Labor.

Concentrations:

Wage and hour litigation

Restrictive covenant litigation

Workplace training

Labor-management relations

Professional Memberships

Board Member, Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, Governor's Advisory Board

Member, Law360 Editorial Advisory Board, Massachusetts, 2022

Member, New England Legal Foundation, Massachusetts Advisory Counsel, 2022-Present

Fellow, American Bar Foundation

Member, American Bar Association

Member, Board of Trustees, Cambridge College

Member, Board of Overseers, Boston Children’s Hospital

Member, Boston Bar Association; Co-Chair, Labor and Employment Law Section.

Member, Society of Fellows, Boston Bar Foundation

Member, WGBH Corporate Executive Council

President, Farrington Education Center, Board of Trustees, 2004-2008

Member Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Council, 1997-2002

Publications

Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2013-2022

Personal

J.D., The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law; Member, Catholic University Law Review

B.A., magna cum laude, Georgetown University; George F. Baker Scholar