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Holly English

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION:

HOLLY ENGLISH is of counsel to Post, Polak, Goodsell, MacNeill & Strauchler, P.A., in Roseland, New Jersey, with a concentration in labor and employment law.  She advises management on issues such as hiring, wage and hour, leave of absence, severance and employment contracts, termination, and provides training on issues such as harassment.  Additionally she advises management on all phases of labor law, including collective bargaining negotiations, union avoidance, representation before the NLRB, election campaigns and decertification proceedings.  She is the author of Gender on Trial: Sexual Stereotypes and Work/Life Balance in the Legal Workplace, published in 2003 by Law Journal Press, a division of American Lawyer Media. 

As a consultant, Ms. English worked in the U.S. and internationally with a wide variety of organizations, helping to align core values for maximum performance.  She presents frequently for law firms and for bar associations on topics such as today’s subtle gender issues and the subtle solutions necessary to solve them; getting comfortable with exercising authority; work/life balance; diversity; effective supervision; and other presentations related to gender issues and management.

Ms. English is admitted to the Massachusetts and New Jersey state and federal bars.  She is President-Elect of the Board of the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL), the oldest organization dedicated to women lawyers in the country, and the editor of the National Association of Women Lawyers Journal.  She earned a bachelor’s degree at Cornell University and her J.D. at Boston College Law School. 

Telephone: (973) 228-9900
Email: holly.english@ppgms.com
Website: www.ppgms.com

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PRACTICE AREAS:
Labor and Employment Law

BAR ADMISSION:
Massachusetts
New Jersey
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey

EDUCATION:
Cornell University, A.B., 1978
Boston College Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1983