Richard Meneghello Selected to The Best Lawyers in America 2010

Fisher & Phillips LLP today announced that Portland, OR based attorney Rich Meneghello (J.D. 1996) has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2010®. Nationwide, 51 Fisher & Phillips attorneys were selected, including three in the Portland, OR office. Rich, who specializes in labor and employment law, was honored for his labor and employment work.

About Richard R. Meneghello
Rich is the managing partner in the Portland, Oregon office. He focuses much of his practice on disability discrimination defense issues. He was the lead associate attorney before the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1999 case of Albertsons v. Kirkingburg, a decision interpreting the Americans with Disabilities Act in favor of employers. Besides disability discrimination matters, Rich commonly appears in court defending claims of sexual harassment, gender discrimination, workers compensation discrimination, public accommodation, race discrimination, retaliation, wage and hour violations, and family and medical leave discrimination. He also regularly represents employers in labor grievance arbitrations. Rich has spoken at many regional and national employment law seminars and he has written numerous articles on employment law topics that have been published in regional and national publications. In 2006 he was named one of Oregon's "Forty Under 40" by the Portland Business Journal, an award honoring local business leaders. He is also listed in Chambers USA, America's Leading Business Lawyers 2007.

In addition to the individual honors, the Fisher & Phillips offices in Columbia, SC, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Irvine, CA, Murray Hill, NJ and New Orleans, LA received #1 rankings because Fisher & Phillips has more listed lawyers in Best Lawyers in the field of Labor and Employment Law than any other firm in their geographic regions. The New Jersey office was also ranked #1 in Appellate Law.

About Best Lawyers
First published in 1983, Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive annual peer-review survey. For the new U.S. edition, more than 24,126 leading attorneys cast more than 2.8 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in the same and related specialties. Because of the rigorous and transparent methodology used by Best Lawyers, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

About Fisher & Phillips LLP (www.laborlawyers.com)
Fisher & Phillips LLP represents employers nationally in labor, employment, civil rights, employee benefits and immigration matters. The firm has more than 225 attorneys in 21 offices. Founded in 1943, it is one of the first U.S. law firms to concentrate its practice exclusively upon representation of employers in labor and employment matters. The firm has offices in Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Columbia, Dallas, Denver, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Irvine, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Louisville, New Jersey, New Orleans, Orlando, Philadelphia, Portland ME, Portland OR, San Diego, San Francisco, and Tampa