ILENE ROBINSON SUNSHINE
isunshine@zag-sw.com

Ilene Robinson Sunshine has practiced labor and employment law in Massachusetts for more than twenty-five years. She is the co-leader of the Employment & Benefits Group of ZAG/S&W LLP, where she represents and counsels employers in a broad range of employment-related matters including employment discrimination, sexual harassment, employee discipline and discharge, handbooks and policy development, drafts executive contracts, and conducts training for managers and employees. She also litigates non-competition cases and all other types of employment-related cases in state and federal courts. Ms. Sunshine is a certified civil mediator in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Ms. Sunshine has counseled clients on privacy and data security-related employment matters such as workplace monitoring and searches, medical records, data protection, technology (e-mail, computers, telephones) and social media. She also drafts and litigates disputes arising under confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements.

Ms. Sunshine previously was of counsel to the office of Hinckley, Allen, Snyder & Comen and served for six years as labor counsel to the Chief Administrative Justice of the Massachusetts Trial Court. She also has served as a hearing officer for the Boston Retirement Board and as a labor arbitrator for the United States Postal Service and the American Postal Workers Union.

·Massachusetts, 1979

·U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts

·U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

·"How Employers in the United States Can Avoid Pitfalls," ACC Israel Chapter Newsletter (June 2009)

·"Market savvy: Women lawyers hone rainmaking skills," Boston Business Journal (quoted) (July 25-August 4, 2005)

·"Easing employee stress before fractures appear," Financial Times (January 2004)

·"Employers can sidestep many pains and perils of downsizing," Boston Business Journal (December 14-20, 2001)

·"Sexual Harassment: mysterious after all these years," Women's Business (February 2001)

·Co-editor, "A Judicial Guide to Labor and Employment Law," Lawyers Weekly Publications (1990)

·Massachusetts Super Lawyers (2004-2009)

·Top 50 Female Massachusetts Super Lawyers (2005-2009)

·Top 50 Female New England Super Lawyers and Top 100 Super Lawyers in Massachusetts (2007-2009)

·Best Lawyers in America (2006-2011)

·Chambers USA, Leading Lawyer in Labor & Employment (2004-2010)

·Fellow, College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, elected 2001

·AV Rated, Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory

·Speaker, "Cross-Border Employment Law Matters: Protecting Your Client from Liability," Sullivan & Worcester LLP, New York (September 2010)

·Panelist, "Contract, Tort and Legislative Update 2008," Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Annual Employment Law Conference, 2008

·Moderator and Speaker, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Annual Employment Law Conference, 2000-2004

·Chair and Speaker, Massachusetts Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Annual Spring Conference, 1987-1999

·Faculty, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 1988 to present (Civil Motion Practice, Sexual Harassment, Employment Law Basics, "60-Minute Lawyer," Top Ten Mistakes Employment Lawyers Make)

·Lecturer, Council on Education in Management, 1987 to 2000; National Business Institute, 1990-2003; CLE International, 1997; Lorman Institute, 1999-2000; Suffolk University Advanced Legal Studies, 1996; Boston Bar Association, 1988; American Arbitration Association, 1988

·Instructor, Lesley College Graduate School, Management Division, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1988-1989

·International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)

·Board of Directors, Greater Boston Legal Services, 2004-2010

·Trustee, Boston Children's Museum, 2007-2009

·Co-Chair, Labor and Employment Law Section, Boston Bar Association, 2004-2006

·Board of Directors and Treasurer, The Lionheart Foundation, 1992-1999

·Board of Delegates, Massachusetts Bar Association, 1992-1995

·Chair, Fee Arbitration Board (1993-1994); Arbitrator (1988-1994), Massachusetts Bar Association

·Chair, Labor and Employment Law Section, Massachusetts Bar Association, 1989-1990

·Women's Bar Association, 1995- Present

·Member by appointment of the Supreme Judicial Court, Commission to Study Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Courts, 1990-1994

·Member by appointment of the Supreme Judicial Court, Gender Bias Study Committee, 1987-1989

·Fellow, Massachusetts Bar Foundation, elected 1986

·J.D., cum laude, New England School of Law, 1979

·B.A., University of Wisconsin, 1976