Andru H. Volinsky
avolinsky@bernsteinshur.com
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Andru Volinsky is a member of Bernstein Shur's Labor and Employment, and Litigation Practice Groups. He manages the firm’s office in Manchester, New Hampshire, and is a member of Bernstein Shur's Management Committee. Andy's practice focuses upon employment law, commercial litigation, and issues of white collar crime. Andy is also lead counsel for the school districts in New Hampshire’s landmark school funding cases.
Andy is a 1980 graduate of the National Law Center at George Washington University and is admitted to practice in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, and the District of Columbia. He has appeared before administrative agencies and trial and appellate courts in these states and has been admitted by motion on specific matters in a number of other jurisdictions. Andy has also tried numerous jury trials in civil cases and criminal cases in the state and federal courts and has argued before the United States Supreme Court. A significant component of Andy's practice has involved conducting investigations on behalf of corporations that have been accused of misconduct concerning employment practices or corporate compliance and fraud issues.
In June 2007, Andy was recognized by NH Public Radio as one of New Hampshire's most influential citizens over the past twenty-five years.
Andy is a 2002 graduate of the Leadership New Hampshire program sponsored by the Business and Industry Association and the NH Charitable Association. He received the NH-NEA Friend of Education award in 1996, was the recipient of the NH Civil Liberties Union Bill of Rights Award in 1997, and was the Merrimack County (NH) Attorney of the Year in 2000. In 2006, he was selected by his colleagues as the recipient of the Barnett I. Shur Community Service Award in recognition of his years of service in New Hampshire. Andy has also been recognized by his peers as one of the three best lawyers in the state to represent a party in difficult public disputes.
Andy is recognized by Best Lawyers in America for his employment law, education law, commercial litigation, and white collar crime work and by Chambers USA for his litigation practice. He is AV-rated by Martindale Hubbell. Andy is an appointed member of the Ethics Committee of the NH Bar Association.
In November 2009, Andy won an appeal for a fired school chief. (Click here to see the Concord Monitor article.) That decision is now being appealed to the NH Supreme Court (Concord Monitor article can be seen by clicking here.)
EDUCATION
JD, George Washington University National Law Center, 1980
Certificate in Conflicts Resolution Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 1976
BA, Psychology, University of Miami, 1976, magna cum laude
AFFILIATIONS
Admitted to practice:
States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, and
District of Columbia
U.S. District Court in New Hampshire and Massachusetts
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court
Member:
New Hampshire Bar Association (Ethics Committee)
New Hampshire Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Claremont Coalition
New Hampshire Citizens Voice Project
New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union