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SANFORD A. KOWAL Attorney-at-Law 56 Chestnut Hill Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02135 Admitted to Massachusetts, U.S. District Court, U.S.

Court of Appeals (1st Cir.) Present Practice Employment and Labor Law, Civil Trial Practice

Labor Relations Experience Handle for employees unlawful termination or punishment, discrimination by employers, loss of professional licenses cases or unfair representation cases against unions. Expert trial attorney and negotiator of settlements for cases before trial courts, the MCAD, EEOC, NLRB, regional and Washington; trial recognition case, UFL practice case at Board and region, State Labor Relations Boards, Civil Service Commission MCAD, EEOC and Arbitration, and Fact-Finding. Trial experience: state and federal courts including Court of Appeals and Supreme Judicial Court; specific enforcement of employment and labor cases, enforcement of NLRB orders, trial of NLRB appeals; extensive civil practice; trial and consultation, MCAD and, EEOC..

Background and Training Practice in small firms with specialization in labor relations, employment law & civil trial practice. Extensive practice in public sector labor relations, including the cities of Quincy, Lynn, Gardiner, and Fitchburg and the towns of Braintree and Mashpee; School Committees including Chelmsford, Gardiner, Topsfield, Shrewsbury, Waltham, Middleton, Middleboro, Cambridge Housing Authority. Private labor relations and employee employment clients, in industries including hospitals, nursing home, manufacturing, garment production private schools, and real estate Trial experience Trained at Schneider & Reilly as tort trial attorney and continued trial practice in all areas of litigation including but not limited to employment law, and labor relations, most recently in business and employment litigation, in court and before the MCAD. Expertise also in

insurance law. Formerly for 14 years outside counsel to Associated Industries of Massachusetts, Inc. for workman's compensation rate-making presenting approx. biannually with actuaries opposition to insurance rate increases; appearances before Division of Insurance and Massachusetts Appellate Courts in these cases; as consultant to AIM wrote 1986 Revisions of Worker's Compensation law. Successfully opposed change in General .Liability .policies in Massachusetts from "occurrence" to "claims made." General Counsel, Watertown Housing Authority., Trial counsel for former Massachusetts Consumers Council, automobile rate making. Special Recognition Chosen by President, Boston Bar Association as attorney to aid Federal District Court Judge J. Arthur Garrity, during implementation of his desegregation order at the Boston Schools. Helped monitor, mediate and resolve Boston Teachers' Strike at direction of Federal District Court. Legal Background In private practice of law in Massachusetts under firm names of Leon J. Kowal; Schneider, Reilly & Kowal; Kowal & Kowal; Kowal, Howard & White; Kowal, Howard & Snider; Sanford A. Kowal, Esq. Highest professional rating in Martindale and Hubbell legal reference service. Served as evaluator for Martindale & Hubbell of other lawyers. Have tried over 25 cases in Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, approximately eight in Court of Appeals of Massachusetts; six cases in U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Extensive civil trial experience, jury and non-jury, federal and state trial courts. Education Newton High School Newton, Massachusetts Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine A.B. History, Political Science Boston University School of Law, LLB U.S. Army Intelligence School Fort Holabird, MD Counter-Intelligence Corps Special Agent, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, Veteran Service in Japan and Korea Admissions: Massachusetts State Courts Fed District Ct of Massachusetts: First Circuit, :Federal Court of Appeals

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