Trust, Partnership and Advocacy

Trust is the foundation of every successful relationship. Clients can trust the firm to advise them honestly and fairly. The firm will never betray a client’s trust and will always make judgments and recommendations based upon a client’s best interests. A fruitful partnership demands accountability, honesty and integrity.

Sensitivity to Client Cost Concerns

The firm is sensitive to client concerns about rising and uncontrollable legal fees and expenses. By maintaining very low overhead and providing efficient and focused legal advice, the firm is able to provide top notch legal representation at very competitive rates.

Providing Employment Law and Civil Litigation Services to Individuals and Small Businesses throughout Massachusetts

The firm represents small businesses and individuals in all areas of employment law and general civil litigation. In 2008, the firm won a signficant prevailing wage and overtime class action case against a national solid waste disposal company that resulted in a settlement that paid out almost $5 million in back wages to over 1,000 current and former employees.

F. Henry Ellis, III founded F. H. Ellis & Associates, P.C. in 2003. Mr. Ellis received his law degree with honors from Suffolk University Law School in 1990 and his B.A. from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut where he majored in Art History. Prior to forming the firm, Mr. Ellis worked as an Associate at the Boston law firm Goodwin Procter and served Attorneys General Scott Harshbarger and Thomas Reilly as an Assistant Attorney General in the Trial Division from 1996 to 2000, where he co-chaired the Attorney General’s Employment Law Practice Group. Mr. Ellis has extensive experience in all areas of employment law and general civil litigation.

Adam J. Shafran joined the firm as an Associate in 2008. Adam received his law degree with honors from New England School of Law and his B.A. from the University of Iowa, where he majored in political science and business. Before joining the firm, Adam served as a Massachusetts Superior Court law clerk, where he worked closely with a number of Superior Court judges. Mr. Shafran has quickly developed into a skilled employment law attorney. He is currently working on a number of large-scale plaintiffs’ class action cases alleging wage violations, prevailing wage violations, overtime wage violations, and meal break violations. In addition, Adam is working on cases involving age and disability discrimination, wrongful termination, Family Medical Leave Act violations, the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act violations, and unemployment benefit determinations.