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Henry M. Quillian IIIPartner |
direct: 404.586.2036 phone: 404.586.9200 fax: 404.586.9201
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Peachtree Center Suite 2300, South Tower, 225 Peachtree Street, N.E. Atlanta, GA 30303-1731 |
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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, 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. 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 and paving at the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. He has represented Puerto Rican companies in arbitration and litigation against one of the Nation's largest general contractors. He has successfully pursued cases involving trademarks and anticybersquatting, rights in marble mining property, business torts, software development contracts, Title VII and products liability. Representative international litigation includes: defense of the Nation's largest BB gun manufacturer against its Russian distributor; a suit by a large manufacturer of gas grills against its German distributor; a suit by a ship loading facility against a major engineering firm for losses suffered in Finland caused by kaolin contaminated in the facility when the loading mechanism failed; and several actions involving Canadian defendants.
Companies in the construction industry regularly turn to Mr. Quillian to solve their problems. He represents all parties, including general contractors, owners, subcontractors and suppliers. Mr. Quillian uses counseling and all dispute resolution mechanisms to solve the problems of several sizable general contractors, the nation's largest manufacturer and supplier of sprinkler system components and piping and the nation's largest manufacturer of metal building components. He has also represented numerous owners and contractors in contract preparation and negotiation. He represented a retailer in contract preparation for construction of over thirty stores, represented one of the nation's best known manufacturers of hand tools in the construction of a nine million dollar plant building, represented an executive training company in the construction of its multi-story headquarters building, represented a major industrial supply company in an extensive warehouse expansion and represented a nursing home
developer in the construction of numerous nursing homes.
From 2003 to 2006, Mr. Quillian was the General Counsel of the Federal Bar Association, having 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 and a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers since 1982. Mr. Quillian is an Elder of Northwest Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. He married in 1985 and is the father of two.