PETER D. LOWE

ATTORNEY BIOGRAPHY

Peter D. Lowe is a partner who provides advice and counsel on labor and employment law and education law. Peter serves as lead labor counsel for some of the premier employers in Maine, including L.L. Bean, Inc. In this role, he advises clients on personnel practices and employee relations matters, including discrimination and harassment issues, layoffs and plant closures, union grievances and collective bargaining, disability and religious accommodation issues, conducting and supervising internal investigations, coordinating state and federal leave laws, and negotiating and drafting employment contracts and separation agreements. Peter also represents public school districts and municipalities throughout Maine.

EDUCATION

University or Birmingham, England (L.L.B., high honors, 1983); College of Law, Chester, England (1984).

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Solicitor of Law, Radcliffes & Co, London (1984 - 1987); Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, Washington, D.C. (1988 - 1990); National Council of School Board Attorneys; Maine Council of School Board Attorneys (Past President).

BAR ADMISSIONS & MEMBERSHIPS

England and Wales (1985); Maine (1989); United States Court of Appeals, First and Eleventh Circuits; United States District Court, District of Maine. Androscoggin County, Maine State, and American (Labor and Employment Law Section) Bar Associations.

PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS

Peter presents each year at the: Maine Human Resources Conference (2002 to present); Annual Employment Law Update for Central Maine Human Resources Association (2004 to present); Maine School Management Conference (1996 to present); Maine Education Law Conference (2007 to present); and L.L. Bean Human Resources Law Training (1999 to present).

In 2009, Peter was selected to edit the Maine Employment Law Letter, a monthly newsletter published by M. Lee Smith Publishers LLC. For more information, please use the link under the News & Information section of this profile page.

RECENT CASES

Counseling a manufacturer with plants in three states on a furlough impacting 900 employees; successfully defending a sexual harassment claim filed by a retail employee in Connecticut; advising a business client on a voluntary retirement incentive program; designing and implementing a major personnel restructuring for a Maine transportation business; litigating and resolving successfully a disparate impact age discrimination claim filed by teachers against a city school department; successfully mediating a discrimination claim filed by a transgendered plaintiff; representing management in collective bargaining contracts for papermakers, police officers, custodians, bus drivers and teachers.