Howard Lenow (lenow@masslaborlaw.com) has been a union side labor lawyer since 1979. Howard brings a sense of humor, advanced technological knowledge and a bulldog's tenacity to his practice. After clerking in Washington D.C. with the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the labor firm of Yablonski, Both & Edelman, Howard moved to Boston to work for a large union labor law firm. Howard formed his own firm in 1987 and in 2001, he joined with his long-time friend and law partner, Sheilah McCarthy to form Lenow & McCarthy. Howard's practice focuses on public sector unions, including fire, police, corrections, public authorities and other municipal employees.

Howard served as the founding member of the American Bar Association's Labor and Employment Technology Committee and has traveled throughout the United States to speak to lawyers and labor unions on using the latest technologies for labor lawyers and unions. In the Spring, 2002, Howard was the featured speaker at the Annual Council meeting of the ABA Labor and Employment Section in Dublin, Ireland. Howard has also been an instructor at the Labor Guild of Boston, a night school for trade unionists, since 1979. Howard was also elected as a Fellow of the American Bar Association.

Howard is also an active member of Jewish Voice For Peace Boston and has traveled with three delegations of doctors, lawyers, union activists and journalists to Palestine and Israel as part of the JVP Health and Human Rights Project. Howard is currently a member of the National Board and Vice-Chair of Jewish Voice For Peace a national organization with chapters in Boston, Washington D.C., Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco.

Howard is the proud father of three wonderful children, Jared, Sasha and Chloe, a lovable 190 lb. Newfoundland, an incorrigible American Bulldog, a playful French Mastiff, and one cat. Howard graduated with a B.A. in Labor History from Hampshire College in 1975 and a J.D. from Antioch College of Law in 1979.

Most of the unions she represents are public sector groups such as school administrators and school and municipal clerical workers. She represents the Boston Metropolitan Area Local of the American Postal Workers Union. In addition, she advises and represents many individual employees not represented by a union.

Ms. McCarthy’s practice takes her into both state and federal court. She also appears regularly before numerous state and federal agencies, including the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, the Civil Service Commission, the Contributory Retirement Appeals Board, and the National Labor Relations Board. Her union representation regularly requires that she frequently try contractual disputes in front of labor arbitrators.

Ms. McCarthy is a member of the state bars of Maine and Massachusetts, and she is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and the U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

She is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Maine Bar Association, and the Lawyers Coordinating Committee of the AFL-CIO. She serves on the Northeastern University School of Law Alumni/ae Association Board of Directors.