People: John Duke, Associate
Biography
John Duke is an associate in the Labor & Employment Department of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. John advises corporations and other employers on a full range of labor and employment law matters. He has substantial labor relations experience advising on such union-related concerns as organizing campaigns, collective bargaining, labor arbitrations and strikes, and defends employers in representation and unfair labor practice cases before the National Labor Relations Board. He also advises corporate clients in the labor and employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions in union and non-union environments.
In general employment matters, John advises his clients on day-to-day personnel issues and helps them draft employment agreements and policies. He helps ensure that employers comply with all aspects of wage/hour, anti-discrimination and similar statutes, as well as the Family Medical Leave Act. As part of his employment practice John represents international, national and regional employers in employment litigation in federal and state courts, and defends them before administrative agencies including the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and the Massachusetts Division of Unemployment Assistance.
John Duke is an associate in the Labor & Employment Department of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. John advises corporations and other employers on a full range of labor and employment law matters. He has substantial labor relations experience advising on such union-related concerns as organizing campaigns, collective bargaining, labor arbitrations and strikes, and defends employers in representation and unfair labor practice cases before the National Labor Relations Board. He also advises corporate clients in the labor and employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions in union and non-union environments.
In general employment matters, John advises his clients on day-to-day personnel issues and helps them draft employment agreements and policies. He helps ensure that employers comply with all aspects of wage/hour, anti-discrimination and similar statutes, as well as the Family Medical Leave Act. As part of his employment practice John represents international, national and regional employers in employment litigation in federal and state courts, and defends them before administrative agencies including the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and the Massachusetts Division of Unemployment Assistance.
Education
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B.C.L., Oxford University (2004)
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J.D., Boston University School of Law (2003)
cum laude
Editor,Boston University Law Review
Recipient of the Dean’s Award for Employee Benefit Plans
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Postgraduate Studies (1999) -
B.M., Boston University (1996)
summa cum laude
Admissions
- Massachusetts
Courts
- U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit







