Edwin G. Foulke Jr. (Atlanta / Washington, D.C.)
Partner
Fisher & Phillips LLP
1500 Resurgens Plaza
945 East Paces Ferry Road
Atlanta, Georgia 30326
Phone: (404) 240-4273
Fax: (404) 240-4249
Email: efoulke@laborlawyers.com 
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Edwin G. Foulke, Jr. is a partner in the Atlanta and Washington, D.C. offices. He co-chairs the firm's Workplace Safety and Catastrophe Management Practice Group. Prior to joining Fisher & Phillips, Ed was the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health. Named by President George W. Bush to head OSHA, he served from April 2006 to November 2008. During his tenure at OSHA, workplace injury, illness and fatality rates dropped to their lowest levels in recorded history. For more than 30 years, Ed has worked in the labor and employment area, focusing on occupational safety and health issues, workplace violence risk assessment and prevention, whistleblower protection, and accident and fatality prevention. He also served on the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission in Washington, DC, chairing the Commission from March 1990 to February 1994.  Ed was named one of the "50 Most Influential EHS Leaders" by both EHS Today and Occupational Hazards magazines. He is a member of the Employee Health Safety and Security Special Expertise Panel for the National Society for Human Resource Management and he is "AV" Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

Areas of Practice:
 Workplace Safety and Health
Compliance Audits and Counseling
Employment Policies and Procedures
Prevention and Compliance Programs
Supervisor Training
Whistleblower Actions
Construction Safety
Safety Compliance
Workplace Fatality and Catastrophe Response

Bar Admissions:
 District of Columbia
Georgia
North Carolina
South Carolina

Education:
 Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC
LL.M. 1993 (Labor Law)
 Loyola University New Orleans School of Law, New Orleans, LA
J.D. 1978
 North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
B.A. 1974, with honors