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Fisher Phillips

USA Guide 2024

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Fisher Phillips

Fisher Phillips

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Provided by Fisher Phillips
USA

Chairman: Roger K. Quillen

Number of Lawyers: 500+

US Offices: 

Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbia, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, Gulfport, Houston, Irvine, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Louisville, Memphis, Nashville, New Jersey, New Orleans, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa, Washington, D.C. Metro, Woodland Hills

Firm Overview: 

​​​​​​​With the employment equation changing faster than ever, businesses must anticipate new challenges and opportunities in order to succeed. With more than 500 attorneys in 36 office across the United States, Fisher Phillips partners with employers to help navigate complex labor and employment issues and unprecedented workplace disruption. Its technology-driven approach, commitment to diversity and inclusion, and ability to serve as trusted business advisors enables the firm to provide innovative solutions to employers’ most challenging workplace matters.

Main Areas of Practice:  

  • Affirmative Action and Federal Contract Compliance: Fisher Phillips drafts affirmative action plans and policies and represents clients in enforcement proceedings before the OFCCP.
  • Corporate Compliance and Governance: The firm regularly designs and implements codes of conduct programs; provides advice and counsel on diversity, equity and inclusion training; assesses risks; performs labor and employment audits; and handles workplace investigations.
  • Data Security and Workplace Privacy: The firm works with employers to guide them in complying with local, state, federal, and international laws and regulations relating to privacy and data protection, and to avoid costly litigation, government enforcement actions, and negative publicity.
  • Employee Benefits and Tax: The firm handles pension and benefit matters under ERISA, continuation of insurance coverage under COBRA, and compliance under HIPAA. Attorneys prepare qualified employee benefit plans, executive compensation programs and health and welfare benefit plans.
  • Employee Defection and Trade Secrets: Attorneys concentrate on issues surrounding employee defection, employee recruitment and trade secrets protection. This includes litigating and advising clients on restrictive covenants.
  • Employee Leaves and Accommodations: The firm handles the wide spectrum of federal, state, and local leave laws that confront employers and works with clients to develop and implement leave policies, administer leave programs and defend legal actions.
  • Employment Discrimination and Harassment: Lawyers regularly defend employers against claims of discrimination, harassment and retaliation brought under a variety of laws.
  • Government Relations: The firm helps clients navigate the continually evolving legislative and regulatory climate at the federal, state and local levels of government.
  • Immigration: The firm provides a single solution for global immigration needs, managing immigration services for clients to allow their employees to work legally in any country, ensuring global expatriate and non-local staff maintain proper immigration status throughout employment.
  • International Employment: The firm advises international employers on HR and immigration matters on a global basis, as well as on matters pertaining to employees working in the United States who are governed by international laws.
  • Labor Relations: The firm assists non-union clients in remaining union free and represents unionized clients in collective bargaining, arbitration and unfair labor practice cases.
  • Litigation and Trials: The firm's experienced litigation attorneys represent clients in federal and state courts across the U.S., as well as before any administrative agency or commission where a claim has been brought.
  • Mergers and Acquisitions: The firm represents both buyers and sellers on the labor, employment, and benefits issues involved when buying or selling a business, surrounding mergers and acquisitions, as well as works with clients engaged in downsizing operations.
  • Pay Equity: The firm's pay equity attorneys know the ins and outs of the evolving state pay equity laws and help clients evaluate compensation data, implement compliant pay practices, and defend any claims of unlawful pay practices.
  • Wage and Hour: Attorneys perform compliance audits, prepare for and represent clients during government wage and hour investigations, defend wage-hour lawsuits, review and design pay plans, and advise on exempt/non-exempt classifications.
  • Workers' Compensation and Unemployment Cost Management: Firm lawyers provide alternative ways for employers to manage workers’ compensation premiums by controlling claims, reserves, settlements and experience modifiers. Attorneys design and facilitate alternative financing methods for clients with large loss issues.
  • Workplace Safety: The firm provides practical guidance to develop and maintain effective workplace safety and health management programs. Its attorneys help employers respond to inspections, defend litigation, and manage workplace catastrophes.

Clients: 

The firm has a broad and diverse client base, representing a wide range of public and private employers in an array of industries. Some are large multinational corporations; others are smaller entrepreneurial businesses.

Ranked Offices

Provided by Fisher Phillips

USA - Head office
USA
  • Bethesda
    7501 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 1220W, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, MD 20814
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    Boston
    200 State Street, 7th Floor, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 02109
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    Charlotte
    227 West Trade Street, Suite 2020, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, NC 28202
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    Cleveland
    200 Public Square, Suite 4000, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, OH 44114
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    Columbia
    1320 Main Street, Suite 750, Columbia, South Carolina, USA, SC 29201
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    Denver
    1125 17th Street, Suite 2400, Denver, Colorado, USA, CO 80202
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    Detroit
    31780 Telegraph Road Suite 200 Bingham Farms , Detroit, Michigan, USA, MI 48025-3409
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    Fort Lauderdale
    450 East Las Olas Boulevard, Suite 800, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, FL 33301
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    Gulfport
    2505 14th Street, Suite 300, Gulfport, Mississippi, USA, MS 39501
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    Houston
    910 Louisiana Street, Suite 4000, Houston, Texas, USA, TX 77002
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    Kansas City
    4900 Main Street, Suite 650, Kansas City, Missouri, USA, MO 64112
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    Las Vegas
    300 S. Fourth Street, Suite 1500, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, NV 89101
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    Los Angeles
    444 South Flower Street, Suite 1500, Los Angeles, California, USA, CA 90071
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    Louisville
    220 West Main Street, Suite 2000, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, KY 40202
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    McLean
    8200 Greensboro Drive, Suite 900 , McLean, Virginia, USA, VA 22102
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    Memphis
    1715 Aaron Brenner Drive, Suite 312, Renaissance, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, TN 38120
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    Minneapolis
    2050 Main Street, Suite 1000 , Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 92614
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    Murray Hill
    430 Mountain Avenue, Suite 303, Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA, NJ 07974
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    New Orleans
    201 St Charles Avenue, Suite 3710, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, LA 70170
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    New York
    1 Rockefeller Plaza, 11th Floor, New York, New York, USA, NY 10020
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    Orlando
    200 South Orange Avenue, Suite 1100, Orlando, Florida, USA, FL 32801
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    Portland
    111 South West Fifth Avenue, Suite 4040, Portland, Oregon, USA, OR 97204
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    Radnor
    150 N. Radnor Chester Road, Suite C300, Radnor, Pennsylvania, USA, PA 19087
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    San Diego
    4747 Executive Drive, Suite 1000, San Diego, California, USA, CA 92121
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    San Francisco
    One Embarcadero Centre, Suite 2050, San Francisco, California, USA, CA 94111 3712
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    Seattle
    1201 Third Avenue, Suite 2750, Seattle, Washington, USA, WA 98101
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    Tampa
    101 East Kennedy Blvd. Suite 2350, Tampa, Florida, USA, FL 33602
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Fisher Phillips rankings

USA Guide 2024
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California
Labor & Employment
1 Ranked Lawyer
Lawyers
Danielle Hultenius Moore
4
Danielle Hultenius Moore
4
Band 4
Labor & Employment: Highly Regarded
1 Department
Department
Labor & Employment: Highly Regarded
1
Labor & Employment: Highly Regarded
1
Band 1
Colorado
Immigration
1 Department
2 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Immigration
2
Immigration
2
Band 2
Lawyers
Angelica M. Ochoa
2
Angelica M. Ochoa
2
Band 2
Jocelyn C. Campanaro
2
Jocelyn C. Campanaro
2
Band 2
Labor & Employment
1 Department
3 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Labor & Employment
2
Labor & Employment
2
Band 2
Lawyers
Todd Fredrickson
1
Todd Fredrickson
1
Band 1
Kristin White
3
Kristin White
3
Band 3
Micah Dawson
3
Micah Dawson
3
Band 3
Florida
Labor & Employment
1 Department
6 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Labor & Employment
1
Labor & Employment
1
Band 1
Lawyers
Charles Caulkins
1
Charles Caulkins
1
Band 1
Steve Bernstein
2
Steve Bernstein
2
Band 2
Cathy M Stutin
3
Cathy M Stutin
3
Band 3
Christine Howard
3
Christine Howard
3
Band 3
Jeffrey E Mandel
3
Jeffrey E Mandel
3
Band 3
Suzanne K Bogdan
4
Suzanne K Bogdan
4
Band 4
Georgia
Immigration
1 Ranked Lawyer
Lawyers
Shanon R. Stevenson
4
Shanon R. Stevenson
4
Band 4
Labor & Employment
1 Department
2 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Labor & Employment
2
Labor & Employment
2
Band 2
Lawyers
4
Michael P Elkon
4
Band 4
4
Terri R Stewart
4
Band 4
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