MA Employment Lawyers

Employee-side focus in Massachusetts

Workplace disputes define the work of MA Employment Lawyers. The firm represents employees rather than offering a general business law menu. Its website identifies both private and public employees as clients. It also uses the Worcester Employment Lawyers brand.

The firm has offices in Worcester, Hyannis, and New Bedford. That presence links the team to several parts of Massachusetts. The website also says its lawyers have represented employees elsewhere in the country. The firm's stated scope remains centered on workplace rights and employment disputes.

Focus and practice areas

Discrimination, harassment, and retaliation

MA Employment Lawyers handles sexual harassment and employment discrimination claims. The discrimination work covers age, gender, race, religion, and disability. The firm also handles equal pay disputes. These areas place protected status and workplace treatment near the center of its work.

Retaliation and whistleblower matters form another part of the firm's stated caseload. Such claims can involve workplace action after an employee reports conduct or exercises a protected right. Wrongful termination also appears among the matters the firm accepts. The website presents these issues as related but distinct types of employment claims.

Pay, classification, and overtime

The firm's wage and hour work includes unpaid wages and overtime claims. Its attorney biographies add misclassification disputes to that list. Those matters concern whether an employer treated a worker under the correct legal category. Equal pay claims add another pay-related issue to the firm's stated work.

The website gives this area more substance through examples tied to individual lawyers. David Valicenti's biography identifies wage cases, overtime claims, and misclassification matters. Christopher M. Hennessey's biography reports settlements involving overtime and other unpaid wages. These details connect the firm's stated services to the work assigned to its attorneys.

Contracts and severance

MA Employment Lawyers also handles employment contracts and severance agreements. These matters differ from courtroom claims, but they can shape an employee's rights before or after a workplace dispute. The site places them beside wrongful termination, discrimination, and wage claims. That mix gives employees access to counsel for both written agreements and contested claims.

How the legal team is built

The website names three partners and one associate. It states that the team has more than 70 years of combined experience in labor law, employment law, and litigation. The biographies support that statement with individual descriptions of trial work, court appearances, agency proceedings, and specific employment matters.

Kevin Kinne and David Valicenti

Kevin Kinne is a partner in the litigation group. He has more than two decades of experience and works in state and federal courts. He also appears before arbitrators and administrative agencies. National and international legal publications and newspapers have profiled his cases, according to the firm.

David Valicenti is also a partner in the litigation group. His biography states that he has more than 20 years of trial experience and has litigated employment cases in Massachusetts and elsewhere in the country. His work covers wages, worker classification, overtime, retaliation, disability discrimination, and sexual harassment. The firm reports that his work has included awards of triple damages and attorneys' fees.

Christopher Hennessey and Francesca Cone

Christopher M. Hennessey is a partner who represents employees in employment disputes. He practices in state and federal court and before administrative agencies. The firm says he obtained a six figure settlement in an independent contractor classification matter. His biography also reports settlements in claims for unpaid overtime and other wages.

Francesca L. Cone, who also uses the name Frankie, is an associate in the litigation group. Her work includes wage and hour disputes and retaliation claims under the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave law. She also handles discrimination, retaliation, and harassment matters based on protected class. Her biography identifies race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and age among those grounds.

Courts, agencies, and dispute forums

The attorney biographies show work in several legal settings. Kinne handles matters in state and federal courts, before arbitrators, and before administrative agencies. Hennessey also works in state and federal court and at the agency level. Valicenti's profile places particular weight on trial experience.

This range matters because employment disputes do not all follow the same route. A wage claim, discrimination charge, contract issue, or retaliation case may call for a different forum. The website does not treat litigation as a single courtroom process. It identifies lawyers with experience in courts, agency proceedings, arbitration, and settlement work.

What the stated record shows

In my opinion, the most useful feature of this listing is the match between the practice-area pages and the attorney biographies. The firm names the workplace claims it accepts, then gives examples of lawyers handling many of those same claims. Wage disputes, retaliation, discrimination, harassment, and classification issues appear at both levels.

The reported results add context without replacing the broader description of the team. Valicenti's profile mentions triple damages and attorneys' fees. Hennessey's profile identifies a six figure classification settlement and settlements concerning unpaid compensation. The site presents these as examples connected to named attorneys rather than as promises about future cases.

MA Employment Lawyers has a defined employee-side identity and a team centered on litigation. Its stated work covers pay disputes, protected-class claims, retaliation, termination, contracts, and severance. The named attorneys bring court, trial, arbitration, agency, and settlement experience to those matters. For directory readers, that level of detail makes the firm's role and case focus easy to assess.