Baruch A. Fellner
Baruch A. Fellner is a partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where he founded the firms occupational safety and health practice, which is recognized as one of the leading national OSHA practices, especially in such areas as ergonomics litigation, challenges to OSHA regulations, and OSHA fatality crisis management. Before joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Fellner served for eight years in the solicitors office of the Department of Labor as counsel for both Appellate Litigation and Regional Litigation for the Occupational Safety and Health Division. In those capacities, he was in charge of all litigation before the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, and before the Courts of Appeals.
Mr. Fellner was ranked as one of the top employment lawyers in the District of Columbia by Chambers USA Americas Leading Business Lawyers (2005-2011 editions), in which he is acknowledged for inspiring incredible client confidence and his encyclopedic knowledge of OSHA law. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2014 and the 2012 SuperLawyers for Labor and Employment Law work. Mr. Fellner is the co-author of the first book dealing with occupational safety and health law, titled Occupational Safety and Health Law and Practice (1975), and has authored numerous articles and addressed numerous audiences in the OSHA and pension fields.