Timothy C. Cavazza

Associate

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Areas of Practice

Labor and Employment Law
Construction Law

Experience

Tim's practice focuses on labor and employment law and construction law. He works extensively in labor relations and advises employers in grievances and interest arbitrations. Tim also counsels employers in employment discrimination proceedings and contract negotiations in the public sector.

Tim began his career in labor relations and employment law at Skoler, Abbott & Presser, P.C., one of the largest firms in New England providing labor and employment law services exclusively to management and employers. Tim's experience there included exposure to all aspects of employment litigation in state and federal court, as well as the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In addition to advising management clients in matters involving federal and state wage and hour laws, Title VII, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the WARN Act, the National Labor Relations Act and state law equivalents, Tim assisted in representing employers in collective bargaining negotiations against the Teamsters Union, the Service Employees' International Union, the Steelworkers, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and others.

Tim earned his J.D. from Roger Williams University School of Law magna cum laude and received the CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Labor Law, Property, Contracts II and Trial Advocacy. While in law school, Tim served as a Judicial Intern for the Honorable Ernest C. Torres in the United States District Court, District of Rhode Island, he worked as a legal intern with the Rhode Island Department of Attorney General, and he also worked as a summer associate with a general practice law firm in Providence, Rhode Island.

Prior to beginning his legal career, Tim worked in the commercial construction industry for several years in both unionized and non-unionized environments. During much of that time, Tim worked as a foreman/general foreman for a large Boston-based company with a unionized workforce, and he managed numerous commercial construction projects throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island, including Amgen, Inc. in West Greenwich, Rhode Island. Tim's hands-on labor relations experience provides him with real world skills and unique insight into the issues presented by both unionized and a non-unionized workforces.

Education

J.D., magna cum laude, Roger Williams University School of Law, 2007
B.A., cum laude, Roger Williams University, 2003

Bar Memberships

Rhode Island (2009)
Connecticut (2008)
Massachusetts (2007)
Federal Court (U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts)

Authored Articles/Publications

Editor and contributing author to the Rhode Island Employment Law Letter, a monthly newsletter designed for Rhode Island employers published by M. Lee Smith Publishers LLC, 2009

Contributing author to the Massachusetts Employment Law Letter (2007 - 2008)

Co-Author, The Coming of Age Discrimination, (Business West - 2008)

Seminars

Co-presenter of Americans with Disabilities Act Master Class (2008 Boston, MA)

Co-presenter of Employment Records Master Class (2008 Boston, MA)

Frequent speaker on employment-related legal topics for a variety of associations and organizations