Fisher Phillips Adds Powerhouse Workplace Safety Partner in Washington, DC

Fisher Phillips, one of many nation’s preeminent labor and employment regulation corporations representing employers, is happy to announce that Robin Repass, a seasoned Office Security legal professional, has joined the agency as a Companion within the Washington, DC workplace.

Robin brings a novel perspective having served as each in-house counsel and chief of worldwide requirements and compliance at Amazon and a world electrical automobile firm, and in non-public follow at an AmLaw 100 agency the place she offered authorized counsel on conventional employment regulation issues, office security governance, and compliance. She has intensive expertise guiding employers within the vehicle, building, manufacturing, mining, metal, and photo voltaic power sectors by way of environmental, well being, security, and sustainability initiatives, in addition to counseling and defending organizations in OSHA investigations and litigation. Robin additionally has expertise creating and executing authorities affairs campaigns as they relate to company office well being and security applications, and interesting with federal officers, regulators, and advocacy organizations to collaborate on legislative and regulatory requirements.

At Fisher Phillips, Robin joins the agency’s cross-country Office Security and Disaster Administration follow, and Manufacturing and Transportation and Provide Chain business groups. She is a licensed lead auditor for Worldwide Requirements Group (ISO) 45001 and can leverage that have to assist purchasers create and implement office well being and security administration applications.

“As corporations proceed to grapple with the federal authorities’s elevated give attention to new security requirements and maintain employers to better accountability for office security incidents, the well being and security of workers will proceed to be a prime precedence for company counsel,” stated Travis Vance, co-chair of Fisher Phillips’ Office Security and Disaster Administration follow. “Including Robin to the workforce, an legal professional with such vital and distinctive office security expertise, particularly in Washington, DC, will likely be invaluable to our purchasers throughout the nation.”

Robin joins shortly after the agency introduced its workplace transfer and growth in Washington, DC the place the agency doubled its bodily footprint to occupy area situated at 1401 New York Avenue NW. Of the transfer, Dan Farrington, co-managing associate of the agency’s Washington, DC workplace, stated, “It is necessary for our agency to have a powerful presence within the coronary heart of town the place we will proceed to maintain our finger on the heartbeat of federal office legal guidelines and proceed to draw prime expertise.” At this time, Dan says: “Robin shouldn’t be solely an skilled world office security skilled, however she is related in authorities and commerce circles in Washington, D.C. Our purchasers will profit instantly from her arrival, and our native workplace will proceed to hunt and recruit authorized expertise to assist purchasers in key follow areas like Office Security which might be considerably affected by federal regulation.”

Robin earned her J.D. from the College of Tennessee School of Regulation and her B.S. from East Tennessee State College. She is licensed to follow in California, Colorado, Tennessee, Washington, and Wyoming.