Roger K. Quillen - Lawyer in Atlanta, GE

Roger Quillen is the full-time Chairman and Managing Partner of Fisher Phillips. He is effectively the CEO of an organization with 350 attorneys and an additional support staff of more than 300 people. Roger has continuously led the firm for 15 years. The firm has tripled in size under Rogers leadership and is consistently recognized as one of the countrys elite labor and employment law firms. Fisher Phillips has been recognized by U.S. News and World Report — Best Lawyers as the Law Firm of the Year for Labor and Employment Litigation in 2015 and as the Law Firm of the Year for Labor Law? Management for 2016.

The firm has implemented many innovations, including the development of the award-winning Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Leave Calculator App that has been widely praised in the media. Roger has emphasized client service and personally visits 15 clients a year, to hear first-hand about how the firm is performing and to learn if the clients need anything. Roger also helped to develop internal programs to ensure that attorneys and staff across the firm deliver first-rate services to all of the firms clients.

His practice involved litigation covering a wide range of employment discrimination issues, employee welfare benefit plans, the Railway Labor Act and issues arising before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). His special emphasis was in federal appellate litigation. Roger has argued cases in most of the federal courts of appeals, with subject matter ranging from review of NLRB decisions to class actions arising from changes in retiree health insurance plans.

Roger is AV Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has received repeat recognition by the various lawyer rating services. He has been named one of The Nations 100 Most Powerful Employment Attorneys by Human Resources Executive Magazine every year since 2009.