About Us
Labor, Employment, & Education Law Attorneys
The Boyd Law Group, PLLC focuses its entire practice on employment, labor, and education law. With decades of collective experience in these areas, our legal team provides capable legal service for both employers and employees.
Because we represent clients from both sides of the labor law spectrum, we understand all aspects and all approaches to resolving an employment dispute or issue. In each case, you will be assigned a lead attorney along with a team member who will be responsible for the progress of your case. You will always have the personalized attention you deserve.
Our team is sensitive to your needs. Whether your case is best resolved privately or through litigation in court, we will always strive to help you achieve the best possible result. Because we limit our practice primarily to labor and employment law, we can stay abreast of changes in the law and recently resolved cases that can impact your legal matter.
Our Firm Founder
The Boyd Law Group, PLLC has received many legal industry awards and recognitions for our high level of professionalism and service.
Firm founder, Patrick J. Boyd, has appeared on prominent TV networks and has been quoted in numerous publications, including but not limited to: The New York Times, The New York Law Journal, U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, The New York Post, and the New York Daily News.
He has been selected as a New York Metro Super Lawyer in Employment Litigation every year since 2014. Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is a rating service for outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Only five percent of all lawyers in the State of New York receive this honor.
Recognized & Trusted
The Boyd Law Group, PLLC has received the Client Champion – Silver Distinction Award from Martindale-Hubbell® every year since 2018. These awards are given to an elite group of attorneys who demonstrate commitment to client service based on the quantity and quality of their scores on Martindale-Hubbell® reviews.
Martindale-Hubbell® is an online service that provides reviews of individual lawyers as well as the law firms they work for and is designed to provide people seeking legal help with unbiased feedback and additional information related to finding the right attorney. According to the company, Martindale.com contains profiles for more than one million lawyers and law firms across the world. This award is given to only one percent of attorneys.
In 2016, our firm was listed in the New York Law Journal’s Top Settlements of 2016 in the employment law section for a significant settlement on behalf of a large class of women subjected to discriminatory hiring practices. This special section of the New York Law Journal lauds law firm accomplishments obtained through settlements, mediations, and arbitrations.
Patrick Boyd has been awarded a perfect rating of 10 out of 10 for his exceptional legal services by the prestigious legal resource Avvo.com. Avvo helps people find and connect with the right lawyer through industry-leading content, tools, and services. It provides transparent information about attorneys with Avvo-related profiles for 97 percent of practicing lawyers in the U.S.
The Avvo rating is calculated using a mathematical model that considers all of the information in the lawyer’s profile. Avvo looks at a lawyer’s years of experience, disciplinary history, industry recognition, and professional achievements in order to create their rating on a scale of 1 to 10. The website also collects background data from other sources, including Bar Associations and city records. After gathering as much information as possible, the website calculates an attorney’s score. As Avvo uses a mathematical model, the website can ensure that the ratings are unbiased and not determined on favoritism.
ThreeBestRated, an independent business rating site, has selected The Boyd Law Group, PLLC as one of the top three employment law firms in Connecticut. ThreeBestRated reviews local businesses across the U.S. and selects the top three local businesses that are considered superior in each city for specific business categories. They use a 50-point inspection, which includes customer reviews, history, complaints, ratings, satisfaction, trust, cost, and more to determine which companies deliver overall excellence in the industry. ThreeBest Rated offers its services for free and companies never pay to be listed.
We have also been selected to New York’s Magazine’s 2018 Leaders in The Law New York’s Leading Lawyers. This special section features exceptional lawyers practicing in the Tri-State area.
Awarded for Our Work in Employment Law
Our Notable Cases Are a Reflection of Our Dedication
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$395,000 Dollar Arbitration Win
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$390,000 Pre-filing Settlement
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$325,000 (approximately) Pre-filing Settlement
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$250,000 Pre-filing Settlement
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$175,000 Settlement