Michael J. Long

Telephone: (781)749-0021 x101
Fax: (781) 748-1121
Email: mlong@long-law.com

Areas of Practice:
All facets of Education School Law, Special Education, Collective Bargaining, Grievance/ Arbitration, Employment/Labor Relations and Municipal Law; cases before the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission, Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and Civil Service Commission.

Bar Admissions:
            Commonwealth of Massachusetts
            United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
            First Circuit Court of Appeals

Education:
            Cum laude graduate of Boston College (B.A. 1977)
            Suffolk University Law School (J.D. 1980)

Michael J. Long represents several Massachusetts school districts as general labor, and special education counsel.  He renders services on an ongoing basis as labor counsel to municipal entities on school, police, fire, civil service and other employment matters and has served as special counsel for many other public employers.  For many years he has been General Counsel to the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents, a state-wide organization to which he renders advice on a wide range of education law topics.

Attorney Long is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, including its subcommittees on public law and labor law, Massachusetts Council of School Attorneys, National Association of School Boards Council of School Attorneys, Boston Bar Association, Norfolk County Bar Association and Quincy Bar Association.  He has been a featured panelist at Massachusetts Bar Association and Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education seminars on a number of topics in the fields relating to education and municipal law, and has been a featured panelist at several conferences of the Boston Society of Architects, speaking on indoor air quality and school construction issues.  Mr. Long authored a chapter on School Finance for MCLE’s 2005 & 2006 Publications on School Law.