Brian J. Mullin

Brian Mullin is a highly skilled and experienced lawyer who concentrates his practice in labor and employment and higher education law. Brian represents his clients in the full spectrum of labor and employment litigation matters, including wage and hour claims, discrimination actions, non-competition and trade secret disputes, and contract claims, in state and federal courts, in arbitration and mediation, and before state and federal agencies.

In addition, Brian provides higher education clients with advice and counsel in matters specific to colleges and universities, such as representation before the OCR, Title IX compliance and sexual misconduct matters, student and faculty issues, risk management, and governance matters. He is also an approved sexual misconduct investigator by United Educators, providing consulting services and training to colleges, universities and secondary schools on issues relating to preventing, investigating and responding to sexual misconduct.

Brian’s clients range from entrepreneurs and small family-owned businesses to large colleges and national and international companies.  Regardless of their industry, size or location, clients seek Brian out not only for his effectiveness and tenacity as a litigator, but for his skill in resolving sensitive and often complex issues in the workplace gained from lessons learned through litigation and his years of experience as a human resource executive prior to becoming an attorney.

Brian has extensive experience drafting policies, as well as all manner of employment-related agreements, including employment, compensation, commission, confidentiality, non-competition, and separation agreements.  Brian works with clients to limit exposure to claims by conducting assessments of their employment practices and compliance obligations in areas such as leave administration, wage-and-hour practices, personnel actions, contract compliance, and Affirmative Action and EEO programs.  Brian also develops drug testing and safety programs for clients and delivers training for employees at all levels. He also serves as a co-editor of the Campus Counsel blog.

Before Bowditch

Before becoming an attorney, Brian worked for many years as a human resource executive, gaining experience in several industries, including real estate development, finance, telecommunications and the public sector. Brian was an Associate in the labor and employment group of a large law firm before joining Bowditch & Dewey in 2009.

Brian retired from the military after more than 20 years.  This included active service in the United States Marine Corps.

Besides work

Brian enjoys spending time with his family and can usually be found coaching or watching his three sons playing in local athletic leagues.  Brian also provides pro bono legal services for disabled military veterans.