Join CommonBondz for a discussion on racism and employment with Bert H. Ware, Of Counsel at Jackson Lewis P.C., resident in the firm’s Boston, Massachusetts offices, and Greg D’Archangelis, Global Head of Recruitment Operations and Delivery at MetLife.

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Bert H. Ware is Of Counsel at Jackson Lewis P.C., resident in the firm’s Boston, Massachusetts offices.

With 35 years of experience, prior to joining Jackson Lewis, Bert served for 20 years as a senior in-house Assistant General Counsel at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and its predecessor institutions, and as outside counsel in private practice, delivering strategic and tactical advice, counseling, and guidance to C-Suite and other senior executives, HR professionals, and staff support function executives on a very broad range of employment-related issues.

Now, at Jackson Lewis, in addition to continuing to offer advice and guidance to clients, as a part of the firm’s Corporate Governance & Internal Investigations practice group, Bert works with clients on both neutral third-party independent and client-directed internal investigations of alleged misconduct related to discrimination, bullying, harassment, hostile work environment, retaliation, threats of violence, and unprofessional workplace conduct issues. As a part of Jackson Lewis’ Corporate Diversity Counseling practice group, Bert assists clients in diversity, equity and inclusion issues, complex civil rights reviews and employment law audits, as well as dispute resolution, investigations and the defense of class action lawsuits involving allegations of race-, gender-, and age-based discrimination and harassment law.

Previously, as a direct report to a Deputy General Counsel at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Bert managed the defense of all single- and multiple-party employment litigation filed against the Bank and against Merrill Lynch in federal and state trial courts or before arbitral panels at enterprise level within the US. Bert also designed and implemented enterprise-wide or business unit-specific on-boarding, senior executive contract negotiation, design, drafting, and execution, and background screening programs in coordination with sourcing and internal staffing teams, and corporate security organizations for existing business structures as well as in the context of M&A acquisitions and integrations. Bert’s experience extends to senior executive performance management issues, the design and implementation of employee retention and goal achievement strategies during spin-offs, divestitures, or wind downs, off-boarding, RIFs, separation agreements, proactive protection, support of cyber-forensic review, and recapture of intellectual property, related strategies, negotiations and execution. Prior to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Bert worked as a senior associate at Mintz Levin, a general practice, full service law firm in Boston, and began his career with LeBoeuf Lamb, an international law firm in New York, New York.

Bert is member of the New York State, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts bars as well as various federal court bars.

Bert serves as an advisory board member of the AELC, and is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management, the Association of Workplace Investigators, as well as various state and local bar associations. Bert is also a member of the Tufts University Black Alumni Association chapter and the Tufts University Alumni Association, as well as the New York University School of Law Black & Latino Alumni Association. Finally, Bert is a board member of the Acton-Boxborough United Way.

A native of Richmond, Virginia, now transplanted to Boston by way of New York City, Bert received his undergraduate degree in political science and history from Tufts University and his juris doctorate from New York University School of Law.

Greg D’Archangelis is the Head of Global Recruitment Operations & Delivery for MetLife. Responsibilities include providing strategic recruitment operations leadership for non-officer roles in the US and Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) capabilities globally. As well, Greg will play a lead role in the design, deployment and ongoing management of global recruitment systems and technology. With both client and the candidate experience as a priority throughout the recruitment process, Greg has established consistent and more interdependent practices across all businesses and functions and continually looks to innovate.

Prior to MetLife, Greg joined from American International Group (AIG) where he was the Head of Global Delivery for the company’s Global Talent Acquisition team. Prior to joining AIG, Greg worked at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch and predecessor banks including Fleet Bank, progressing through the bank in a variety of HR Business Partner and specialist roles, most significantly in talent acquisition and merger integration roles. Greg brings an in-depth experience in global RPO management, recruitment process consistency and technology infrastructure, having delivered on-line onboarding portals, implemented multiple applicant tracking systems and streamlined metrics and reporting. Greg received his Bachelor of Business Administration in Management and Economics from Hofstra University and an MBA from St John’s University.