Dana Gershon focuses her practice on employment law matters. She counsels clients on all aspects of employment relationships, including federal and state anti-discrimination laws, wage and hour laws, and employee non-competition agreements. She regularly reviews and drafts employee handbooks and negotiates employment agreements, consulting agreements and separation agreements. She also provides non-discrimination and non-harassment training to large and small employers, and completed the certification course required by the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (“MCAD”) to provide MCAD-ordered non-discrimination and non-harassment training. She represents numerous clients in the healthcare industry.

Previously, Dana worked at Rosenman & Colin, LLP (now Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP) in New York, and at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. in Boston, where in addition to her employment law counseling practice, she litigated employment law cases before the MCAD, the Cambridge Human Rights Commission, and in state and federal court. She also previously served as the Manager of the Litigation Department at Goodwin Proctor, LLP, taught legal research, writing and oral advocacy at Boston University School of Law, and taught in the Genesis Program at Brandeis University.

Dana received her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. She received her B.A. from Cornell University, magna cum laude, and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. She is a member of the Bar of the Commonwealth Massachusetts, New York State, and the District of Columbia, and is admitted to practice in both federal and state courts.

Dana is the President of the National Council of Jewish Women, Inc. and is past President, and a past Trustee, of the Rashi School in Dedham, Massachusetts. She also serves on the Board of the Kuvin Center for Infectious and Tropical Disease at Hebrew University.