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Overview
Rich Meneghello is probably plotting something as you’re reading this. As the first Chief Content Officer in the firm’s history, Rich focuses much of his time ensuring that all the material posted to the firm’s website is timely, insightful, and of practical use by employers. By working hand in hand with firm leadership and our practice groups and industry teams, he ensures that Fisher Phillips meets the needs of our clients each and every day by publishing over 500 legal insights each year.
- He is a leading voice for the firm's Artificial Intelligence Practice Group, developing critical Insights, creating a complimentary template AI policy for the workplace, organizing the inaugural AI Solutions @ Work Conference, and hosting the popular bikweekly AI Workplace Forum webinar series.
- He’s become recognized as one of the country’s foremost authorities on the gig economy, having been quoted on the subject in The New York Times, U.S. News, Bloomberg, The Los Angeles Times, Wired, Yahoo! Finance, New York Magazine, Employment Law 360, National Law Journal, SHRM.org, and Law.com, and appeared on National Public Radio to discuss the topic.
- If you’re curious now and want to read some of Rich’s stuff, some of his favorite publications include his “Magic 8-Ball” prediction for incoming Supreme Court justices and his Die Hard Survival Guide to office holiday parties (which received the Law360 Distinguished Legal Writing Award from The Burton Awards).
- Before Rich transitioned into the content world, he was an accomplished litigator. The highlight of his career was winning a unanimous decision before the U.S. Supreme Court as the lead associate in the case of Albertsons v. Kirkingburg, an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) case. He won cases for clients at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Oregon Supreme Court, and the Oregon Court of Appeals, and also won trial victories in both state and federal courts.
- When he’s not at his desk, Rich is devoted to the soccer referee community. He is the State Referee Administrator (SRA) in Oregon, a certified Referee Mentor, and a USSF-certified Regional Referee.