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Brian J. Bouchard

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portsmouth
Labor & Employment Business Litigation Construction Litigation
ABOUT BRIAN J. BOUCHARD

Brian is a seasoned litigator and counselor with a proven track record of success in labor and employment, real estate, and construction law. His deep understanding of business operations and client-focused approach allow him to provide practical, results-oriented solutions to complex legal challenges. In the labor & employment field particularly, Brian counsels and represents companies through all manner of complexities, from claims involving discrimination, retaliation, and wage and hour violations to questions involving employee management, executive contracts, employee mobility, and legal compliance.

KEY CASES
  • Substantial experience in litigating employment discrimination, retaliation, and wage and hour cases at the agency and court levels

  • Regularly advises companies on employee mobility and executive employment

  • Prevailed on Summary Judgment for a Fortune 500 company in a case involving the Americans with Disabilities Act

  • Successfully represented an energy company in a mineral and property rights dispute

  • Worked with an outdoor guiding company to save it hundreds of thousands of dollars in back wages by renegotiating its government contracts

  • Extricated a client from a failed business acquisition and resulting litigation

  • As a pro bono attorney, obtained a favorable judgment for indigent clients in a bench trial

  • Frequent lecturer on discrimination, wage and hour, and government contractor issues

EDUCATION
  • J.D., University of New Hampshire School of Law, magna cum laude
  • B.A., Stonehill College, magna cum laude
ADMISSIONS, MEMBERSHIPS & CERTIFICATIONS
  • State of New Hampshire
  • State of Massachusetts
  • State of Maine
  • New Hampshire Bar Association
AWARDS
  • Best Lawyers in America® Ones to Watch, Commercial Litigation, Labor and Employment Law - Management, Litigation - Construction, Litigation - Labor and Employment
  • Rising Star by New England Super Lawyers®, Business Litigation
  • Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program
  • Managing Editor of IDEA: The Intellectual Property Law Review, University of New Hampshire School of Law
  • Bankruptcy Institute Medal of Excellence
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INDUSTRY & CIVIC INVOLVEMENT
  • Board Member, Brew NH
  • Chair, Leadership Seacoast Board of Directors