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DONALD J. SIEGEL As General Counsel to the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, Don Siegel has advised this statewide labor organization for several years. As General Counsel to both the Massachusetts AFL-CIO and the Massachusetts Building Trades Council he has drafted several important legislative initiatives. As counsel to the Boston and other Building Trades Councils he has negotiated several project labor agreements covering both private sector and public sector construction projects. Don also serves as counsel to several regional labor councils. He also represents several ERISA and some public sector based employee benefit funds as well as many non-ERISA labor-management cooperation trusts. Together with his partners, he has been active in enforcing both prevailing wage claims and public bidding laws. Don’s practice also includes the representation of individual local unions as well as individual employees. He negotiates employment agreements for individual employees as well as collective bargaining agreements for individual local unions. Long active in community and bar related groups, Don serves as a member of the National Board of the Jewish Labor Committee. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for more than twenty years, is a past president of several community organizations and a member of the American, Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations. He has written and lectured extensively on topics of concern to the labor bar and to labor leaders. He speaks regularly to unions as well as professional audiences. Like many other firm lawyers, he has never worked at any other law firm. He started as an associate in 1971 and became a partner in 1978. He has also received the Cushing-Gavin award as an outstanding union attorney. Don has been named a Massachusetts Super Lawyer numerous times, and has been listed in Boston’s Best Lawyers.
Practice Areas Education University of Wisconsin B.A. Bar Admissions United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit |
