Andrew C. Pickett is an American lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts, who practices employment litigation and counseling on behalf of management. He clerked for Chief Judge Albert W. Coffrin of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont in 1986 and 1987 and later became Office Managing Principal of the Boston office of Jackson Lewis P.C.
Education
Pickett earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University, where his class year was 1983. Princeton, founded in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, was by then a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey, with a long undergraduate liberal arts tradition.
He then studied at Cornell Law School, receiving a Juris Doctor in 1986. The law school was established in 1887 as part of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and became one of the early law schools to operate within a university. While there, Pickett served as Chancellor of the Cornell Moot Court Board, a student body that runs moot court competitions in appellate advocacy. The American Bar Association's National Appellate Advocacy Competition, a national student contest in appellate argument, was the setting in which he reached the semi-final round.
Career
Pickett's legal career began with a clerkship in the United States District Court for the District of Vermont, where he served as law clerk to Chief Judge Albert W. Coffrin during 1986 and 1987. The federal court for Vermont was created in 1791, when Vermont joined the Union, and it serves as the federal trial court for the state. He was admitted to the bar in 1987 in Vermont and Massachusetts.
From 1990 to 1991 he served as a Special Assistant District Attorney in the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office. Middlesex County is one of the largest counties in Massachusetts, and its district attorney's office handles criminal prosecutions in the county.
Before joining Jackson Lewis, Pickett was an attorney at Ropes & Gray, a Boston firm founded in 1865. Ropes & Gray was among the established Boston law firms serving corporate and litigation clients during the period of his practice there.
Jackson Lewis P.C. was founded in New York City in 1958 by Louis Jackson and Robert Lewis, and it has focused on labor and employment law. Pickett became Office Managing Principal of the firm's Boston office. His practice concentrates exclusively on employment litigation and counseling on behalf of management, including claims of unlawful discrimination, reductions in force, FMLA leave, and disability-law issues. He has trial experience in state and federal courts, including defending employers against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in pattern-and-practice class action litigation, and he lectures frequently on employment law.
He also worked as a partner of S. E. Giorno.
Achievements
Reached the semi-final round of the American Bar Association's National Appellate Advocacy Competition while a student at Cornell Law School.
Membership
Pickett belongs to several bar associations that serve lawyers at the state and national levels. The American Bar Association, founded in 1878 in Saratoga Springs, New York, is one of the largest voluntary professional associations of lawyers in the United States, offering continuing legal education, policy advocacy, and professional standards. The Boston Bar Association serves lawyers practicing in the Boston area, and Pickett took a leadership role in its Labor and Employment Law Section. The Massachusetts Bar Association and the Vermont Bar Association serve lawyers practicing in their respective states.
Co-chair of the Labor and Employment Law Section from 2000 to 2002.
USAttorneys.com profile of Andrew C. Pickett
Profile page describing Pickett's position at Jackson Lewis P.C., his employment law practice, and his 1986 to 1987 clerkship and 1990 to 1991 prosecutorial service.
Lawyers.com profile of Andrew C. Pickett
Profile page with a biography covering Pickett's career at Ropes & Gray and Jackson Lewis P.C., his public service positions, and his bar admissions in 1987.
