About Maria Mancini Scott
Maria Mancini Scott has been practicing employment law for fifteen years. Ms. Scott represents employees in all aspects of litigation and trial work in state and federal courts and at governmental agencies such as the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. “I take pride in striving to ensure that individuals can work in an environment free of discrimination, harassment and retaliation,” Ms. Scott says. “When employees are subjected to discriminatory decisions by their employers, the financial and emotional consequences can be grave.
We work hard to obtain compensatory justice for those who have been prohibited from enjoying success in the workplace due to the wrongful acts of their employer.” Ms. Scott handles all aspects of plaintiffs employment law cases. She reviews and negotiates employment contracts and severance agreements; represents victims of employment discrimination based on race, gender, disability, religion, national origin, or veterans status; and brings actions for non-payment of wages or overtime. Ms. Scott also represents workers who seek workplace accommodations based on disabilities and those who have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace.
Ms. Scott grew up in Needham, Massachusetts and received her bachelor’s degree from Tufts University. In 1995, Ms. Scott graduated cum laude from Suffolk University Law School, where she was the lead articles editor of the Suffolk University Law Review and received various awards for her written and oral advocacy skills. Ms. Scott started her career in employment law as an investigator at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, she has worked as a law clerk to the justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court, and is a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Keches Law Group
These results are credited to Keches Law Group. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
After winning a $26.6 million jury verdict for a union mason who fell through defective scaffolding on the Longfellow Bridge, Andrew Abraham of Keches Law Group returned to court and proved that Liberty Mutual's insurers willfully refused to investigate or settle a clear liability case, prompting a judge to double the compensatory judgment to over $91 million under Chapter 93A and 176D.
A Middlesex County jury awarded $26.6 million to union mason John Rooney, Jr. after he fell through a two-foot scaffold gap during the Longfellow Bridge rehabilitation and suffered seven spinal operations and permanent disability, with pre-judgment interest bringing the total compensatory judgment to roughly $45.5 million.
A Hampden County jury awarded $9.5 million to the adult daughters of Zoe Rosenthal, a 52-year-old Holyoke teacher fatally struck in a crosswalk by a visually impaired driver in 2017, in what attorneys described as a record non-economic wrongful-death verdict with adult heirs in Western Massachusetts.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.