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March 9, 2016Tully Rinckey PLLC Expands Coast to Coast Federal Employment Law Group
Tully Rinckey PLLC is pleased to announce that Mary T. Connolly, Esq., an attorney with experience at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, has joined its Federal Labor and Employment Law Practice Group. Fluent in Spanish, her primary focus is to aggressively and effectively defend the rights of federal employees against a range of abuses, including wrongful personnel actions, discrimination and retaliation claims.
Prior to joining Tully Rinckey PLLC, Ms. Connolly was a legal assistant working on complex civil litigation of commercial disputes, along with employment and real estate matters at a prominent Boston law firm.
With the addition of Ms. Connolly, Tully Rickey PLLC continues to grow its experienced and highly sought-after Labor and Employment Law Practice Group. The attorneys at Tully Rinckey PLLC have nearly 130 combined years of experience practicing federal labor and employment law.
Tully Rinckey PLLC’s federal sector and military law team includes the former Merit Systems Protection Board chairman, the former Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps chief of staff and director for strategic policy and requirements at the Pentagon, and the former Department of the Air Force’s deputy general counsel for fiscal, ethics and administrative law at the Pentagon, among other distinguished colleagues.
Ms. Connolly obtained her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from New England Law. As a law student, she worked as a law clerk drafting agreements and performing legal research on consumer fraud for a highly regarded and internationally recognized athletic retail company. She interned in the Civil Division of the United States Attorney’s Office research memoranda, motions, and pleadings in civil litigation actions filed by or against the United States. Ms. Connolly also had the opportunity to expand her public sector experience in the Trial Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, and served as a Fellow with the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.
Ms. Connolly received her Bachelor’s Degree magna cum laude in both Communications and Spanish from Manhattan College in New York, and was granted Phi Beta Kappa distinction her junior year. After graduating, she became interested in law while working as a litigation paralegal at a prestigious employment law firm in Manhattan. There, she assisted attorneys with federal district court matters concerning wage-and-hour and civil rights class action cases, as well as individual employment matters.
To speak with Mary Connolly or for more information, please contact Marcy Velte at 518.218.7100 or send her an email.
