Skoler, Abbott & Presser, P.C. - Attorney Bios
Jay M. Presser - Partner Phone : (413) 737-4753
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Jay Presser has been a member of the firm since 1977. He received his B.A. from Harpur College, State University of New York at Binghamton, and his Juris Doctor from George Washington University, where he served on the Law Review. Prior to joining the firm he was a law clerk for the Administrative Law Judge of the National Labor Relations Board and subsequently worked as a trial lawyer for the NLRB in its Cincinnati, Ohio, office.
Jay practices labor and employment law exclusively on behalf of management. As head of the firm's litigation practice, he has over thirty years of experience litigating employment cases before administrative agencies, including the NLRB and the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and the State Labor Relations Commission. He has successfully defended employers in numerous civil actions, including jury trials, dealing with cases involving every area of employment law, including discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful discharge, wage hour, FMLA, ERISA and defamation. Jay has won appeals before the Supreme Judicial Court, and the First and Second Circuit Courts of Appeals. He has also represented employers in hundreds of arbitration cases arising under collective bargaining agreements. Jay is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court, federal appellate and district courts, and the state courts of Massachusetts and New York.
Jay has been selected for inclusion in the Tenth Anniversary edition of The Best Lawyers in America because he has been included in that esteemed list for the past ten years. In addition, Jay has been chosen by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly as one of its "Lawyers of the Year" and was recently selected as a Massachusetts SuperLawyer.
Jay taught "Collective Bargaining and Labor Arbitration" as an adjunct faculty member at Western New England School of Law for ten years. He authored The Relationship of Federal Labor Law, State Law Wrongful Discharge Actions, and Other State Causes of Actions for the Mathew Bender treatise Labor and Employment Arbitration. He is a frequent speaker before employer groups, and has been asked by both the Massachusetts Bar Association and the MCLE to present employment law seminars for other attorneys.
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