| Biography:
Mark Batten is a partner in Proskauer Rose's Labor and Employment Law Practice
Group and resident in the Firm's Boston office. He assists clients with all
aspects of employment policies and practices, including hiring, termination,
leaves, accommodation of disabilities, and other matters. He also handles diverse
civil litigation, including litigation of noncompetition agreements, ERISA matters,
discrimination and wrongful termination litigation in federal and state courts;
proceedings before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination; wage
and hour matters; and labor arbitrations. He has also written and lectured on
employment-related matters, including, for instance, MCLE's Representing
Clients Before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.
Mr. Batten is also an experienced appellate attorney both in employment cases
and other civil litigation, handling appeals at all levels in the state courts
and in the United States Courts of Appeals.
In his spare time, Mr. Batten is an experienced computer programmer, conversant
in C, C++, and other languages. He has ported software between computer operating
systems and has published several commercial computer games.
Before joining Proskauer, Mr. Batten was a trial attorney in the Civil Division
of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, where he was lead counsel in
major litigation for over two dozen federal agencies, ranging from the U.S.
Air Force, the CIA, and the U.S. Secret Service to the Department of Housing
and Urban Development and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Mr. Batten was named one of the Best Lawyers in America in 2008 and a New England Super Lawyer in 2007. He was also recognized as a leading lawyer in Chambers USA in 2008.
Mr. Batten received his juris doctor, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School
in 1988, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. In 1985, he
graduated, magna cum laude, from Davidson College with a bachelor of arts.
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