Go To Lawyers: Julayne M. Lazar

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With broad experience in administrative agencies, in-house and in private practice, Julayne M. Lazar of Boston’s Rubin & Rudman has been described by colleagues as a “triple threat” who has done it all for her employment and labor law clients.

Earlier in her career Lazar held high-level positions with the Office of the Attorney General, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, the Massachusetts Department of Workforce Development and the Massachusetts Department of Revenue.

The first-hand understanding of key agencies that Lazar gained gives her clients today an insider’s view and advantage in navigating regulations and processes before these agencies.

Lazar also spent several years as in-house employment counsel at the 9,800-employee Boston Medical Center, where she advised management on all aspects of the employment life cycle, before she entered private practice.

Lazar also has substantial experience working with unionized workforces, making her a

hybrid of employment and labor lawyer who can step into any unionized workforce situation and know how to nuance the relationship and build trust.

Today, at Rubin & Rudman, Lazar leverages all these experiences as she investigates and defends employment and labor claims on behalf of employers before administrative agencies and courts, handling everything from discrimination, harassment and retaliation cases to labor and wage disputes, misclassifications cases, employment-related torts and contract disputes.

Her representative cases include negotiating a settlement — at one-third the amount authorized by the employer — on behalf of an information technology company fending off a muti-state class action alleging misclassification of certain employees.

Lazar also successfully represented a restaurant in an investigation by the Office of the Attorney General for alleged violations of the Wage Act and Tip Law, and found significant miscalculations in an administrative audit, which minimized the client’s liability.

Additionally, Lazar obtained a favorable decision in a restrictive covenant dispute concerning a former employee’s solicitation of former co-workers to a competitor.

Achievements and Professional Activities

Graduate, “Train the Trainer” course, Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination; senior diversity trainer, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; member, Charles River Regional Chamber of Commerce; member, ProVisors Professional Networking Group; volunteer, Boston Cares