Robert P. "Bob" Brooks
Recognized since 2007
Providence, Rhode Island
Employment Law - Management
Labor Law - Management
Litigation - Labor and Employment
Robert P. Brooks is the firm’s Managing Partner and Chairman of the firm’s Labor and Employment Law Group. He represents management in all facets of labor relations and employment law in the public and private sectors.
Bob’s labor and employment experience includes counseling employers on day-to-day personnel administration as well as on such complex administrative law issues as OSHA compliance and wage and hour issues under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Bob also regularly and successfully handles collective bargaining negotiations and the defense of union organizing campaigns. He has successfully represented employers in employment discrimination matters, and represents employers in a wide variety of labor arbitration and administrative proceedings. In addition, he lectures frequently to groups and private companies on many of the issues facing human resource professionals on a daily basis.
Bob is Immediate Past President of the Board of Governors of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Providence and he is the recipient of the RI Bar Association’s Dorothy Lohmann Community Service Award, given in recognition for his work with the Boys and Girls Clubs. He serves on the AP&S Executive Committee and is a member of its Diversity Committee.
- E-mail: rbrooks@apslaw.com
- Direct Phone Number: 401-274-7200
- Phone Number: 401-274-7200
- Lawyer Page: https://www.apslaw.com/attorney/robert-p-brooks/
- 100 Westminster Street, 16th Floor
Providence, RI 02903
- Suffolk University, J.D., graduated 1987
- Rhode Island College, BA, graduated 1982
- Rhode Island, Rhode Island Bar Association
- Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bar Association
- American Bar Association - Member
- Boys & Girls Club of Providence - Past President
- East Greenwich Personnel Board - Member
- Rhode Island Bar Association - Member
27 The Best Lawyers in America® awards
12 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America awards
- Litigation - Labor and Employment, Providence (2019)
- Employment Law - Management, Providence (2014)
- Labor Law - Management, Providence (2012)
- Employment Law - Management
- Labor Law - Management
- Litigation - Labor and Employment
- Civil Rights
- COVID-19
- Management
- Named as one of the “Top 20 Most Powerful Labor Attorneys in the Nation” by Lawdragon Magazine and Human Resource Executive. Bob was the only attorney named in R.I. and one of four in all of New England.
- AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell, highest rating given to attorneys.
- Best Lawyers' 2013 and 2014 Lawyer of the Year, Labor Law - Management, Providence
- Recognized int he 2006-2013 Chambers USA America's Leading Business Lawyers as one of the "Leaders in Rhode Island" as as one of the state's best in Labor and Employment Law
- Selected as a Rhode island Super Lawyer, 2007-2013, an honor that recognizes him as a leader in the legal community.
- Selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2007-2014 editions of The Best Lawyers in America in the field of Labor and Employment Law.
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