Paul G. Lannon, Jr. is a partner in the Litigation Section and a member of the firm's national Labor & Employment, Education and Energy Practice Groups and is Chair of the Non-Competition, Trade Secrets and Employee Defection team. Mr. Lannon represents public and private companies in complex civil litigation, counsels businesses on asset protection and workplace issues, and advocates for management in employment disputes. Mr. Lannon also serves as the outside general counsel for several private colleges and secondary schools in New England. His experience includes successful trials, appeals, arbitrations and mediations, locally and nationally. He has twice argued First Amendment principles before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, and he has defended the U.S. Bobsled Team in Olympic arbitration. Mr. Lannon is also accomplished in representing energy services companies before state and federal agencies. In one of the first major federal cases after 9/11, he successfully argued to re-open the Port of Boston to supertanker traffic. Mr. Lannon served as a special Assistant District Attorney and also defends professionals in malpractice and disciplinary actions.
Mr. Lannon regularly defends companies from unfair competition, improper solicitation of customers and employees, and unauthorized disclosure of trade secrets and other proprietary information across the country. He is national trial counsel on non-competition disputes for large healthcare and insurance companies. His noncompete work includes drafting multi-state agreements and developing company-wide asset protection policies. Beyond unfair competition, Mr. Lannon advises employers on a broad range of employment matters, including asset protection, acquisitions and divestitures, human resource policies, wage and hour, reductions in force, executive contracts, leaves, severance, investigations, terminations, relocations and preventative training. He also regularly represents management in discrimination and other workplace disputes in state and federal courts and administrative agencies. Mr. Lannon is a frequent writer and presenter on employment law issues.
In addition, Mr. Lannon devotes a large part of his practice to advising private educational institutions on a broad range of matters, including tenure disputes, campus security, student discipline, policies and handbooks, governance, Title IV compliance, regulatory issues, intellectual property, admissions, vendor and faculty contracts, change in control, and preventative training. United Educators, the preeminent insurer in higher education, named Mr. Lannon a Select Counsel for the defense of secondary and post-secondary institutions. He has written and presented widely on education matters.
Mr. Lannon clerked for the Honorable Joseph R. Nolan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (1992-93).