Practice Focus
Labor and Employment Counseling, Labor and
Employment Litigation, Business Immigration
Biography
Matthew J. LaMourie is an attorney in the firm's Litigation and Labor &
Employment Practice Groups. His practice concentrates in labor and employment
litigation, where he represents a full range of corporate clients in matters
encompassing wrongful termination claims, labor relations, workplace harassment
and discrimination claims, wage and hour compliance, business immigration, and
OSHA compliance.
For over ten years, Matthew has represented clients in numerous industries,
including the health care, publishing, energy, manufacturing and
telecommunications sectors. His clients include not only firms located in Maine,
but throughout northern New England and Atlantic Canada. He frequently draws
upon his varied professional experience to counsel clients in ways to avoid or
resolve employment and labor disputes. In addition, he manages the firm’s
growing visa processing and business immigration practice.
Matthew and his wife Mary C. Hartman, and their three sons, live on Cousins
Island, in Yarmouth, Maine.
Representative Matters
- Matthew successfully negotiated the conclusion of a federal wage and hour
enforcement action brought against a client with industrial workforces located
in several states. In addition to assisting the client in avoiding costly
litigation involving the U.S. Department of Labor and several former employees,
he developed firm-wide solutions aimed at ensuring future FLSA
compliance.
- Matthew was integral in the creation of a new operations and maintenance
company for a multinational energy company. In connection with a pending
refinancing transaction, Matthew analyzed how a necessary corporate
reorganization would change the client’s legal and employment-related
obligations, planned the tasks and timing related to the reorganization, then
quarterbacked its
execution.
- Matthew coordinated a client's tactical responses to an aggressive union
organizing effort involving staff and supervisory employees at one of New
Hampshire's largest private schools. He provided management guidance and
training during the union's campaign, ensured the effectiveness of management's
internal communications to employees and designed strategies that enabled the
client to preserve its union-free work environment.
Memberships
- American Bar Association
- Maine State Bar Association
- American Immigration Lawyers Association
Civic Involvement
- Board of Directors, Children’s Theatre of Maine
- Pro bono panel for the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project
- Former Chair, Portland’s Civil Service Commission (1999-2002)
Admissions
Massachusetts; Maine; New Hampshire; U.S. District Court, District of Maine;
U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit
Education
J.D., Northeastern University School of Law, 1995 (Judicial Intern for U.S. District Judge D. Brock Hornby; Recipient of the Irving M. Perlmutter Family Trust Scholarship)
M.M.S., University of Delaware, 1985
B.A., Michigan State University, 1983
