Makara Joins Boston Office of Constangy, Brooks & Smith

Wendy Angel
Public Relations Coordinator
Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP
404-230-6724 Office
 wangel@constangy.com

BOSTON—National labor and employment law firm Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP, welcomes Matthew S. Makara as an associate in its Boston office. His practice focuses on employment advice and litigation, with an emphasis on wage and hour law.

Matt counsels employers in a wide variety of employment matters, including complex wage and hour issues, discrimination, wrongful termination, whistleblower retaliation, and state law claims. He has also served as Associate Editor of the second edition of the BNA Treatise, The Fair Labor Standards Act, the primary reference in the field of federal wage and hour law.

Prior to joining Constangy, Matt interned with the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, the Trial Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, as well as the Law Offices of John E. Devito. Before attending law school, he worked as an editor of Chinese language textbooks at Cheng & Tsui Company and served in the U.S. Marine Corps., including spending four years as a saxophonist and guitarist in the Marine Band.

He is a cum laude graduate of Suffolk University Law School, where he served as Managing Editor of the Suffolk University Law Review, and received his B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

About Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP:
Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP has counseled employers on labor and employment law matters, exclusively, since 1946. A “Go To” Law Firm in Corporate Counsel and Fortune Magazine, it represents Fortune 500 corporations and small companies across the country.  Its attorneys are consistently rated as top lawyers in their practice areas by sources such as Chambers USA, Martindale-Hubbell, Super Lawyers, and Top One Hundred Labor Attorneys in the United States.  More than 120 lawyers partner with clients to provide cost-effective legal services and sound preventive advice to enhance the employer-employee relationship.  Offices are located in Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,  Virginia, and Wisconsin. For more information, visit www.constangy.com.