Robert B. Fitzpatrick Robert Brian Fitzpatrick is the principal in the law firm of Robert B. Fitzpatrick, PLLC in Washington, D.C. where he represents clients in employment law and employee benefits matters. Mr. Fitzpatrick has concentrated his practice in employment law disputes for over thirty-five years and has been described by the National Law Journal as being among the top employment lawyers in the country and by Washingtonian Magazine as "tops in employment law" in the Washington, D.C. area. He was also included in the 2006 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Fitzpatrick is an active member of the American Bar Association (ABA) and the District of Columbia Bar, being a frequent speaker at Bar meetings and a participant in the activities of several sections of the ABA and the D.C. Bar. He has been Co-Chairman of the ABA's Committee on Individual Employee Rights and Responsibilities of the Labor and Employment Law Section; Co-Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Labor Relations Section of the D.C. Bar; Chairman and founder of the D.C. Bar's Committee on Individual Employee Rights and Responsibilities; Chairman of the Federal Bar Association's Labor Law and Labor Relations Section; Chairman of the FBA's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity; and Chair of the Employer-Employee Relations Committee of the Torts and Insurance Practice Section of the ABA. He has been a member of the Class Action Task Force of the Torts & Insurance Practice Section of the ABA and served as a member of the Long Range Planning Committee of ABA's Torts and Insurance Practice Section from 1993 to 1996. He is an active member of the Section of Dispute Resolution of the ABA and of the International Employment Law Committee of the International Law & Practice Section of the ABA. He has been the Chair of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee of the ABA's Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities.