Jack S. Gearan

Jack Gearan has nearly 20 years of experience representing companies and C-suite management in complex litigation matters, major corporate transactions, and intricate compliance and regulatory challenges. A shareholder in the Boston office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP and the firm’s Labor & Employment practice, Jack regularly provides counsel to senior management and human resource personnel on various aspects of employment law compliance matters, such as employee relations, wage and hour law, trade secret, non-compete, restrictive covenant, leave of absence, fair employment practice and workplace accommodation law, along with advising on hiring, employee retention and termination strategies. Clients frequently turn to Jack to conduct outside independent investigations of sensitive personnel issues or threatened legal actions. 

Jack has broad and deep experience counseling management in myriad industries, including in the retail, hospitality, restaurant, pharmaceutical, life sciences, health care, manufacturing, transportation, trucking, construction, software as a service, financial services and higher education sectors. Jack writes and speaks regularly on the ever changing employment law and regulatory landscape, and serves on the Board of Editors for the Boston Bar Association (BBA)’s publication, the Boston Bar Journal.

As part of his employment law compliance advisory work, Jack counsels companies and private equity firms in connection with various corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, investments, hiring, restructuring, and reductions in force.

Always seeking to resolve matters when possible through practical and creative thinking, Jack remains ready and willing to litigate aggressively where necessary. Jack has tried cases in court and arbitration, and has argued in appellate courts.