Speaker - Sept. 6, 2013
HENRY M. QUILLIAN III
TAYLOR ENGLISH DUMA, LLP
1600 Parkwood Circle, Suite 400
HENRY M. QUILLIAN III's litigation and counseling practice combines his legal and engineering education in the fields of construction, general commercial, business torts, surety, trademark, trade secrets, insurance coverage, engineering failure, RICO, antitrust, catastrophic personal injury and products liability. Every year since 2004, he qualified as a Georgia “Superlawyer” in a survey administered by Atlanta Magazine by receiving a sufficient number of votes to place him in the top 5% of lawyers in Georgia. From 2009-2013, he has been placed within the Top 100 lawyers in Georgia in this survey. From years on end, Mr. Quillian was voted among Georgia’s Legal Elite by Georgia Trend Magazine for his Intellectual Property practice. In 2012 and 2013, he was selected for Best Lawyers In America. He was Chair of the Atlanta Bar Association Construction Law Section, a group of over 200 construction lawyers, in 2004-2005. He has been awarded Martindale-Hubbell's highest rating of AV.
Mr. Quillian has succeeded in handling multi-million dollar litigation across the nation and internationally, including many cases with numerous parties. Exemplary cases involved defective design, delay and disruption claims arising from the construction of a twenty-four story office building in St. Louis, Missouri, a hotel/office tower complex in West Palm Beach, Florida, the sprinkler system in the Georgia Dome.
For several years, Mr. Quillian was the General Counsel of the Federal Bar Association, having also served as the President of the Atlanta Chapter from 1995 to 1996, on the National Executive Committee from 1998 to 1999 and as the Younger Lawyers Division National Chair from 1998 to 1999. He has been an Executive Committee Member of the Atlanta Chapter since 1989. He was Chair of the Atlanta Bar Association's Construction Law Section for 2004-2005 and was a founding Board of Directors member of the South Atlantic Chapter of the Construction Management Association of America on which he served for 10 years.
Mr. Quillian has presented numerous seminars, including at a statewide symposium for training judges. He has written numerous widely distributed articles on construction law topics including three articles published in Construction Business Review magazine and a chapter of a widely used textbook, Construction Management: Operational Controls for Commercial Risks, published by John Wiley & Sons. He has performed numerous construction law seminars. In 1998, Mr. Quillian chaired the 2nd Annual National Litigation Conference held in Washington, D.C. for the Federal Bar Association.
Mr. Quillian graduated with honors from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1988 after graduating with high honors from Duke University's School of Engineering in 1985 with a second major in history. He is admitted to the United States Supreme Court, to federal courts across the Nation, to all Georgia Courts and to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. He is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Quillian practiced at one of Atlanta's largest law firms, Smith, Gambrell, & Russell, until he joined Fellows LaBriola, LLP in 1996.
He has been a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association since 1985. Mr. Quillian is an Elder of Northwest Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. He is on the Board of Trustees of the Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary. He married in 1985 and is the father of two.
Email: hquillian@taylorenglish.com