Attorney Marylou Fabbo is a partner and heads the firm’s litigation team. She is also the firm’s immigration expert. She knows the importance of an understanding and cooperative relationship between an organization and its employees. She’s had an insider’s view of the challenges faced by both sides of the employer-employee relationship. Marylou’s mother owned a business for over 30 years while her father spent those same years as a union employee—often working rotating shifts. Marylou paid attention to her parents’ different perspectives (and sometimes heated discussions) on various work-related issues which have shaped her approach to addressing problems in the workplace.

For more than 20 years, Marylou has encouraged employers to take proactive steps to foster a work positive environment.

My goal is to help employers avoid landing in sticky legal situations by providing counseling, advice, management training, and drafting and reviewing handbooks and policies. If the parties must part ways, I assist clients in making the transition as seamless as possible—such as by preparing severance or separation agreements. Still, I know that in some situations, despite an employer’s good faith actions, litigation is unavoidable. If that happens, I am dedicated to providing a zealous defense.

Marylou has successfully represented the firm’s clients in state and federal courts, as well as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, and other forums. For years she has been recognized by Boston Magazine as a Super Lawyer and had been designated as one of the Top Women in Law by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.

Now that her children are grown, Marylou fills the time that was once spent moving shoe piles away from the door, transferring dishes that no one left in the sink to the dishwasher, making (and canceling and making and canceling) kids’ appointments, and attending swim meets, rugby matches, softball, field hockey, and water polo games, by volunteering in her community as well as relaxing on the porch of her 1800s farmhouse.