Arthur Murphy | Quincy Business Lawyer

Mr. Murphy’s legal career emphasizes management labor, corporate, and litigation matters. Selected in the publication of Best Lawyers in America, Mr. Murphy represents many large and small businesses, including Fortune 500 corporations, and serves as counsel to a variety of trade associations as well as major governmental agencies in all areas of labor and employment law. Mr. Murphy has presented and argued hundreds of cases including labor and employment matters in proceedings at the administrative, state, and federal levels. He has successfully argued labor and employment cases at both the state and federal levels, including the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

Mr. Murphy is a former member of the Governor’s Task Force on Labor-Management Relations and past President of the Boston Chapter of the Industrial Relations Research Association and advisory counsel to the American Arbitration Association. In addition, Mr. Murphy is a member of the Labor Relations Advisory Committee, a select panel of the nation’s leading labor relations attorneys and he has served on a national team of seven lawyers that advises an association of 1,200 hospitals across North America. Mr. Murphy is a former Chairman of the South Shore Chamber of Commerce, former Advisory Director of the Bank of Boston, and a Director of Quincy Mutual Insurance Company and other profit and non-profit corporations and trade associations.

In December 1989, Mr. Murphy was honored as a recipient of the Cushing-Gavin Award for management representation in the field of labor relations. In 1996, Mr. Murphy was elected as a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Law. Mr. Murphy was one of only fifty practicing attorneys in the nation honored with the Fellowship appointment and was the only attorney in Massachusetts to receive the Fellowship. Mr. Murphy is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Suffolk University Law School. He is admitted to the Bars of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the District of Columbia, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Position	Organization	Location	Duration
Partner	Murphy, Hesse, Toomey & Lehane, LLP	Quincy, MA	Present

School	Degree	Major	Graduation
Suffolk University Law School	J.D.	Law School	1964
University of Notre Dame	Bachelors		1960

State / Court	Date
Massachusetts	1964

• College of Labor and Employment Law | Fellow | 1996 - Present
  Attorney General's Labor Relations Task Force | Member | 1992 - Present
  HR Advisor | Editor
  Governor's Task Force - Labor Advisory Council | Former Member
  Governor's Task Force on Labor-Management Relations | Former Member
  United Way of Massachusetts | State Director
  Board of Directors - Carney Hospital | Member
  Quincy Mutual Insurance Company | Director
  Milton Art Museum | Former Trustee
  Transitional Committee for the Attorney General's Office | Member | 1999 - 1999
  South Shore Chamber of Commerce | Former Chairman | 1998 - 1998
  Commonwealth of Massachusetts | Special Attorney General | 1997 - 1997
  Notre Dame Alumni Association of Boston | President | 1971 - 1971

• AV Preeminent 5.0 out of 5 Peer Review Rated | Martindale-Hubbell | 2019 - 2020
  Who's Who in American Law | Who's Who In American Law | 2016
  Preeminent 5.0 out of 5 | Martindale-Hubbell | 2015
  Super Lawyer | Super Lawyers | 2009
  Super Lawyer | Massachusetts Super Lawyers | 2004 | 2006 - 2008
  Solas Award | Irish Immigration Center | 2004
  Cushing Gavin Award for Contributions to Labor Law | The Labor Guild | 1989
  Man of the Year Award - Massachusetts | Notre Dame University | 1977
  Best Lawyers in America | Best Lawyers in America

• HR Advisor | The Massachusetts Health Care Reform Act: Coming to a State Near you? | 2007
  HR Advisor | Conduct Unbecoming: How to Avoid "Defamatory Conduct" | 2005
  HR Advisor | How to Conduct a Fraud Investigation | 2003

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Verified Credentials	Date Verified
(1964) Licensed as Attorney in Massachusetts. Verified with The Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers.	July 07, 2020

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