Fisher Phillips

Chairman: John M. Polson

Number of Lawyers: 675+

US Offices:

Atlanta, Baltimore, Birmingham, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbia, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, Gulfport, Houston, Irvine, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Louisville, McLean, Memphis, Minneapolis, Nashville, New Jersey, New Orleans, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland (Maine), Portland (Oregon), Sacramento, Salt Lake City, 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 675 attorneys in 41 offices 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, inclusive environment, 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.
• AI, Data, and Analytics: Attorneys help clients understand and maximize the value of AI while reducing legal, ethical, and reputational risks.
• 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.
• Crisis Communications and Strategy: A dedicated team helps clients plan for, respond to, and move past threats to their operations and reputation.
• 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.
• FCRA and Background Screening: Experienced attorneys help employers comply with applicable laws and defend against any claims.
• 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 and Transparency: 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.
• Reductions in Force (RIFs): We help employers across myriad industries with layoffs and WARN act compliance matters and defend against related class action cases.
• 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 Investigations: With extensive experience in all types of workplace investigations, our attorneys help companies minimize legal risk and enhance internal policies and procedures.
• 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.