Julie A. Moore, Esq.

Recent Professional Highlights

Areas of Specialization

The majority of Julie’s practice focuses on two core areas where she has built deep, nationally-recognized expertise:

Legal Counsel & Policy Development for Employers

Julie works with employers on best practices of Human Resources management, consistent with the law and industry standards. She focuses on risk management rather than litigation. Julie drafts policies, procedures, and handbooks; handles matters before state and federal administrative agencies; and counsels employers on performance management, handling complaints, investigations, harassment, discrimination, ADA, FMLA, terminations, restrictive covenants, and other workplace issues. She routinely drafts separation and severance agreements.

Julie is often retained by individuals on workplace matters involving performance issues, disability accommodation, non-competition and restrictive covenant agreements, harassment and discrimination, retaliation, and separation from employment. She regularly reviews separation and severance agreements. She helps individuals with various issues and works to negotiate positive outcomes through effective communication and, at times, mediation. She also represents individuals at state and federal administrative agencies.

Expert Witness Testimony

Julie has been retained as an expert witness by employers and employees in litigation matters across Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, West Virginia, Missouri, Minnesota, Illinois, and elsewhere throughout the country on workplace investigations, preventative measures related to sexual and unlawful harassment, treatment of employees with disabilities under the ADA, terminations and disciplinary matters, reductions in force, hiring and retention, and other Human Resources issues.

Notable Testimony & Verdicts

Julie is an excellent witness with a proven track record of reliable and convincing courtroom testimony.

Independent Consultant — U.S. DOJ Consent Decree

In 2023, Julie was appointed by the United States Department of Justice as an independent consultant in a litigation matter in Pennsylvania. She and her EPG team were tasked with:

Independent Consultant to the EEOC

Julie has worked with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on discrimination and harassment cases. In 2005, she was retained, with the EEOC’s approval, as an Independent Consultant to a large employer pursuant to the terms of a Consent Decree. She reviewed and re-drafted policies on harassment, discrimination, and retaliation; drafted new workplace policies and procedures on internal complaints, management’s responsibilities upon receipt of a complaint, and conducting investigations; and conducted company-wide training for managers and non-supervisory personnel.

She was designated as part of the company’s internal complaint procedure for four years and reported quarterly to the EEOC on the company’s compliance with the Consent Decree through the end of 2008. In May 2016, Julie testified as a fact witness in New Hampshire federal court about this work.

In 2006, she was again retained to work with the EEOC and an employer, conducting training for all employees and managers on discrimination laws, lawful hiring, and the Americans with Disabilities Act, and creating policies on record retention and equal employment opportunity.

Approved as a Neutral by the MCAD

In 2014, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination approved the appointment of Julie as a Neutral in a settlement agreement between two parties. As a Neutral, Julie was appointed to investigate complaints by females alleging gender discrimination or retaliation in the particular workplace.

Speaking Engagements

Julie’s speaking engagements span national audiences. She has presented at the American Bar Association Labor and Employment conferences; the Association of Workplace Investigators’ annual conferences in California and Colorado as well as webinars; the National CLE Conference in Vail, Aspen, and Snowmass; the AICPA Women’s Global Leadership Summit in New York; and the National Labor & Employment Symposium in Park City and Steamboat Springs. She has been a faculty member for the New Hampshire Bar Association’s Practical Skills course from 2009 to 2021, speaking on employment law to every new class admitted to the New Hampshire bar.

Speaking Engagements in the Last 10 Years

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Publications

Since founding Employment Practices Group in 1998, Julie has been a prolific author on workplace law and investigations. Her writing has appeared in national magazines including Fortune, peer-reviewed journals including the AWI Journal, and regional bar publications including New Hampshire Bar News. She also serves as the co-author of the Labor & Employment Law Research Guide, which is updated bi-annually for every new admittee to the New Hampshire bar.

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Julie is also a regular contributor to the New Hampshire Business Review and has published articles in Massachusetts Lawyers Journal, New Hampshire Bar Journal, The Union Leader, and newsletters for human resources organizations and trade associations throughout New England.

Media Coverage

Julie is a noted authority in Human Resources and business circles and has been consulted and quoted in publications including Fortune, Forbes, The Washington Post, Boston Globe Job Doc, Inc. Technology, Al Jazeera, Yahoo! News, SHRM’s HR Magazine, Glamour, Boston Magazine, BBC World Service, and others.

Notable Recent Media Appearances

• Sep 25, 2025
  “Federal Government Shutdown Doesn’t Mean the Clock Stops for HR”SHRM
• Jun 10, 2024
  Guest speaker on workplace romanceBBC’s Business Matters with Ed Butler
• Nov 23, 2022
  “Employers Can’t Guarantee Complete Confidentiality in Investigations”SHRM
• Aug 4, 2022
  “Too Hot to Handle: Julie Moore on the Rules for Workplace Romance”SHRM’s All Things Work Podcast — featured speaker
• Summer 2022
  “Workplace Romance Is on the Rise”SHRM’s HR Magazine
• Feb 3, 2022
  “Jeff Zucker’s Exit Underscores Why Workplace Romance Policies Still Matter Even After Two Years of Remote Work”Forbes
• Oct 30, 2020
  “Move Over, Toxic Bosses: Politics has US Workers Wanting to Quit”Al Jazeera
• Spring 2020
  “Toxic Talk: How Should HR Handle Contentious Political Discussions in the Workplace?”SHRM’s HR Magazine
• Nov 4, 2019
  “Workplace Romance: It’s Complicated in #MeToo Era”Yahoo News / Agence France-Presse (AFP)
• Feb 13, 2019
  “REI’s CEO and the Era of Zero Tolerance: ‘Errors of Judgment Were Made’”The Washington Post
• Feb 24, 2011
  “Diversity Training Pitfalls to Avoid”Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)

In Julie’s Own Words

Educational Background & Experience

Though Julie does not maintain a litigation practice, her background as a litigator gives her an understanding and appreciation of the legal risks associated with workplace issues that can lead to court action. Prior to founding Employment Practices Group in 1998, Julie practiced employment litigation in Boston from 1995–1998 at Jackson Lewis, a national law firm specializing in management-related employment issues. She also gained extensive experience at Devine Millimet, one of the largest law firms in northern New England, from 1992–1995 in its Manchester office, defending companies and individuals in employment, personal injury, and insurance coverage litigation.

Awards & Honors

In 2013, Julie was nominated by her peers and inducted as a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Fellows are elected only after rigorous screening, with induction limited to labor and employment attorneys who have proven the highest professional qualifications, ethical standards, character, integrity, professional expertise, and leadership — along with significant scholarship, teaching, lecturing, and distinguished published writings on labor and employment law.

From 2010 to 2026, Julie has been named a Massachusetts Super Lawyer. Super Lawyers rates outstanding lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Super Lawyers selects only 5% of attorneys to the Super Lawyers list each year.

In 2011, Julie received the Daniel J. Griffiths Award for Outstanding Leadership from the Greater Merrimack Valley Human Resources Association (a SHRM chapter) for her “outstanding leadership, dedication, and pursuit of excellence.”

Julie was named to the 2011 Natick High School Wall of Achievement, which honors alumni for exceptional achievements and significant contributions to work, home, community, or volunteer efforts. In 2014, she was inducted into Natick High School’s Athletic Hall of Fame. She has been appointed to the Committees to select future recipients for both.

Professional Associations

• Member and former Chair, Human Resources Board for the Town of Wellesley
• Fellow, College of Labor and Employment Lawyers
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, New Hampshire Bar Association
• Member, Massachusetts Bar Association
• Member, Continuing Legal Education Committee of NHBA
• Board Member & Chair of Programming Committee, Merrimack Valley Human Resources Association
• Member, Society for Human Resource Management
• Member & former Board Member, Association of Workplace Investigators
• Former Board Member & Program Director, New Hampshire Women’s Bar Association
• Former Chair, NHBA Law Day Road Race Subcommittee
• Former Member, Women’s Business Center Advisory Board
• Former Member, Sexual Harassment in Education Task Force (NH Dept. of Education & NH Commission on the Status of Women)
• Former Member, National Human Resources Association