Federal Employees

A Washington, D.C. based attorney, Gerald Gilliard has spent years representing Federal employees and executives embroiled in unfortunate disputes with Federal agencies. This represents the core of this business, and this practice is the reason he founded this firm.  While serving as an attorney and labor representative of the largest Federal employees’ union in the United States, he spent each day available by telephone to Federal employees across the world.  He traveled across the United States providing no-cost legal clinics, seminars on grievances and appeals, and developed a reputation as a tenacious advocate in the field.  He is an expert with regard to grievances or appeals of Federal sector adverse actions (an adverse action is an official personnel action, allegedly taken for performance, disciplinary, or other reasons), complaints of discrimination, alleged violations of the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), questions concerning disability and retirement rights, applications for disability, and early service retirement.

Mr. Gilliard understands the distinctions between private sector and Federal sector employment law.  He believes in the hard-won rights and privileges that government employees have earned over decades and that have been codified in the U.S. Code and the Code of Federal Regulations. He works relentlessly to ensure that Federal agencies respect and abide by those rights.