• Attorney Washienko has been invited to share her legal expertise about gender pay inequity in medicine at the 2021 Winter Principal Business Officers’ Meeting of the American Association of Medical Colleges.

• Attorney Washienko co-authored “Closing the Gender Pay Gap In Medicine:  A Roadmap for Healthcare Organizations and the Women Physicians Who Work for Them.”  The book provides the first comprehensive assessment of how cultural expectations and compensation methodologies in medicine work together to perpetuate salary disparities between men and women physicians, and presents a step-by-step guide for organizations seeking to examine their policies and revise their practices to close the gender pay gap among their physician workforce.

• Attorney Washienko was featured in the Axelia Partners website – a French company that facilitates the U.S. expansion of international businesses and entrepreneurs – providing her expert opinion regarding non-compete agreements. 

• Freiberger & Washienko, LLC has been named a First Tier firm in Boston and Third Tier firm nationally for Litigation – Labor & Employment by U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” in 2019. 

• The firm secured a six-figure arbitration award on behalf of an equity research analyst in a FINRA arbitration against a major Wall Street investment firm. 

• In a gender discrimination case, the firm secured for its client one of the largest awards ever awarded by the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination:  back pay and front pay in excess of $1.1 million plus interest, lost 401k contributions and $300,000 in emotional distress.

• In Federal Court, the firm obtained a ruling on behalf of one its individual clients which served to clarify the scope of commissions due under the Massachusetts Wage Act to a former commissioned sales employee.

• In connection with an I-Team Investigation into the use of video surveillance in the workplace, local CBS affiliate WBZ reporter Ryan Kath interviewed Attorney Washienko regarding employee privacy rights.

• In connection with an I-Team Investigation into the termination of an autistic employee from a convenience store, local CBS affiliate WBZ report Lauren Leamanczyk interviewed Attorney Washienko regarding disability discrimination in the workplace.