Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2027 
Greg Vanden-Eykel is a Founding Partner of Cole Law Partners, P.C., where he leads the firm’s employment practice and handles commercial, construction and education litigation in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He represents employers in construction, health care and long-term care, along with nonprofits and public and charter schools. He advises them on terminations, leave, wage and hour compliance, restrictive covenants, handbooks and school law matters, including special education, student discipline, Title IX, FERPA and open meeting obligations. He defends them in court and before administrative agencies, and he also represents executives and employees in severance, compensation and noncompetition matters.
Attorney Vanden-Eykel tries cases. He won a complete defense verdict for a national health care provider after a six-day Essex Superior Court jury trial on disability discrimination and retaliation claims, having been retained after discovery and expert disclosures had closed. He won summary judgment on Massachusetts Wage Act claims for a client who came to him after a default judgment had entered, and he obtained a judgment of more than $500,000 for a general contractor in Rhode Island Superior Court. He has obtained lack-of-probable-cause findings and dismissals before the EEOC, the MCAD and the Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights, negotiated a class settlement of wage and hour claims for a construction client, and serves as outside general counsel to employers and charter schools.
Before co-founding Cole Law Partners in 2025, he was a partner at Kenney & Sams. Before that, he spent more than a decade at Barton Gilman LLP, where he became a partner in 2021. He speaks regularly on employment law, including for MCLE and the National Business Institute, and has written on Rhode Island and Massachusetts employment developments.
Attorney Vanden-Eykel is recognized in The Best Lawyers in America 2027 for Litigation - Labor and Employment and was previously named to Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch. He has been selected to Massachusetts Super Lawyers (2023 through 2026) after being named a Rising Star (2016 through 2021). He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association Civil Litigation Section and the Defense Research Institute.
Education: J.D., magna cum laude, Suffolk University Law School (2011), President of the Moot Court Honor Board; B.A., The George Washington University (2001).
Admissions: Massachusetts and Rhode Island (2011); U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts; U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island; U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts.
