Alison H.Silveira

Partner

Alison focuses her practice on helping employers navigate the complex web of overlapping—and sometimes inconsistent—employment laws. Her goal is to understand the business of each of her clients, and to help them reach the best outcome for their unique needs.


More About Alison

Alison is an experienced litigator and employment counselor. She focuses her practice on wage and hour compliance and litigation defense. She regularly defends employers who find themselves involved in litigation, whether on a single-plaintiff or class/collective action basis, involving claims for failure to properly compensate their employees. Her experience includes defending employers against claims for unpaid wages, exempt status misclassification, independent contractor misclassification, joint employment issues, and off-the-clock work. In addition to defending litigation—or often on a parallel track—Alison works with her clients to evaluate their pay practices and ensure they are legally compliant in order to mitigate risk moving forward.

Outside of the wage and hour space, Alison also regularly defends clients in employment litigation involving claims of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. She spent the first several years of her career as a general litigator, defending companies in complex commercial litigation. This includes claims for legal malpractice, defamation, breach of contract, intellectual property, products liability, securities regulation, and constitutional law.

Alison is also a trusted advisor. Her broad range of litigation experience helps her understand and convey the range of potential outcomes to the challenges her clients face and to deliver practical solutions. She draws from her experience as a Division 1 athlete at the University of Michigan to work as a member of her clients’ team, and help guide smart employment law-related decisions on all fronts. That experience has also sparked Alison’s interest in the ongoing debate that is surfacing at the collegiate level regarding whether athletes are employees, and, if so, how to shape those employment relationships in this brand new (potential) landscape. 

  • JD, Boston College Law School

    President, Public Interest Law Foundation
    National First Amendment Moot Court Team, Best Oralist
    Solicitations Editor, Environmental Affairs Law Review

  • BA, University of Michigan

    Women's Rowing Team - Captain; four year member of First Varsity 8+
    Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association All-American Scholar-Athlete; First Team, All Big 10 

  • Massachusetts
  • US Court of Appeals, First Circuit
  • US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
  • US District Court, District of Colorado
  • US District Court, District of Massachusetts