Lorna brings more than 30 years of experience advising employers on complex employment and labor matters, workplace investigations and litigation, and education-related issues.

Lorna counsels senior leaders and business partners on a wide range of employment matters, including

• Workplace investigations and dispute resolution
• Domestic and international hiring
• Executive compensation and business protection agreements
• Performance management, promotions, discipline, and separations, including evaluations, terminations, and non-renewals
• Reorganizations and reductions in force
• Employee leaves, accommodations, and benefits administration
• Wage and hour compliance, workers’ compensation and unemployment matters
• Collective bargaining agreements, labor relations, grievances, and arbitration
• Discrimination claims and other employment-related disputes
• Policies and procedures, employee handbooks, and employee training

Lorna also has extensive litigation experience representing employers in disputes involving discrimination, torts, contracts, Title IX, and civil rights. She has handled matters through all phases of state and federal court advocacy, including bench and jury trials, appeals before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and administrative proceedings before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Office for Civil Rights, the Civil Service Commission, the Division of Labor Relations, and the National Labor Relations Board.

Prior to joining Outside GC, Lorna served in the Office of the General Counsel at Northeastern University, a global research university with campuses across the U.S., Canada, and London. As leader of the university’s employment and litigation team, she advised senior leadership on a broad range of employment, labor, litigation, student affairs, research, and international matters, and co-led major institutional initiatives supporting the university’s strategic priorities. Lorna also played a central role in all aspects of labor relations, including union organizing campaigns, collective bargaining negotiations, union contract administration, grievance proceedings, and arbitrations.

Earlier in her career, Lorna practiced employment and labor law, education law, and litigation at Murphy, Hesse, Toomey, & Lehane, representing public employers including school committees, municipalities, and housing authorities.

Before entering the legal profession, Lorna was a Certified Public Accountant with an international public accounting firm, advising clients across the manufacturing, retail, banking, healthcare, education, and government sectors. Her accounting background, combined with decades of employment counseling and litigation experience, allows her to provide practical, business-focused advice that supports organizational objectives while effectively managing legal risk to the lowest extent possible.

Lorna earned her J.D., cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School and her B.B.A. in Accounting, with Honors, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, the United States District Court, District of Massachusetts, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

In her free time, Lorna enjoys being outdoors – hiking, kayaking, boating, and snowmobiling – and staying fit with Zumba. Her true passion, however, is traveling. Lorna is on a quest to cross off her bucket list destinations.