Richard D. Glovsky

Richard D. Glovsky handles significant employment-related litigation, including class actions, wage and hour issues, and discrimination and retaliation claims. Most significantly, Dick has become a trusted adviser and general counsel to various companies and their senior executives, including conducting numerous training programs. Dick also prosecutes cases for financial services, health care, hospitality companies and other businesses to protect their trade secrets and to prevent former employees from violating non-competition and non-solicitation obligations. Dick has developed a niche advising clients on Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) programs and Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA) reports.

Dick also counsels companies and officers on executive compensation matters and strategies designed to avoid the cost and expense of litigation.

Dick is the author of Lexis' "Practical Guidance" for Massachusetts, a comprehensive publication covering the entire scope of Massachusetts employment law.

Litigation Experience

Recently, Dick secured a decision on behalf of his client in a case in New Hampshire involving alleged violations of non-compete agreements and he concluded expeditiously a trade secret theft case by securing the entry of a permanent injunction in Massachusetts in a case arising out of the state of Michigan.

Similarly, Dick secured a verdict in a class action case in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida for a Paris-based client.

He also secured a preliminary injunction for this client after two days of trial in a matter in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida involving violations of a former executive's non-solicitation obligations.

In the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Dick first-chaired, and his client prevailed, in one of the few evidentiary hearings that have been conducted on the issue of class certification.

Dick has tried other complex matters involving numerous business issues, defamation claims and wrongful termination actions. Internationally, Dick has handled matters involving the laws of Canada, the United Kingdom, the Middle East, China, Germany, Vietnam and New Zealand, where his clients recently prevailed in a trial resulting in an award amounting to NZD$6.3M relating to their investments in a winery there.