Richard D. Glovsky
General Counsel
Glovsky joins The Baker Center following a distinguished legal career focused on employment law, organizational counsel and litigation. Most recently, he served as counsel at Troutman Pepper Locke LLP, where he advised employers on a wide range of workplace matters and represented clients in employment-related litigation involving class actions, wage and hour issues, and discrimination and retaliation claims. He also served as a trusted adviser and outside general counsel to companies and senior executives.
Earlier in his career, Glovsky spent seven years with the United States Department of Justice, including two years with the Office of Legal Counsel in Washington, D.C., and five years as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. As Chief of the Civil Division, he was responsible for all civil litigation in Massachusetts, involving the United States. He later held senior positions at several Boston law firms, including serving as partner and co-chair of the Labor and Employment Law Practice Group at Locke Lord LLP.
Glovsky earned a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School, where he served as a law review editor. He also has served the community in numerous respects, including as Chair of the then Newton Human Rights Commission, Chair of the National Civil Rights and Latino Affairs Committees of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), co-founder of the Latino-Jewish Roundtable, and Board Chair of the New England Region of the ADL. Glovsky currently serves as a member of the Disability Commission of the City of Boston, to which he was appointed by Mayor Wu, and the Dartmouth College Trustee Nominating Committee, which selects alumni trustees for his undergraduate alma mater. Glovsky has received numerous recognitions in his career, the most recent of which will occur on September 15, when he is inducted into the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Hall of Fame.