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Henry M. Quillian III, a member of Taylor English, nationally litigates, arbitrates and solves commercial disputes in the construction, real estate, insurance, technology and general business sectors. He was voted by peers as a Top 100 lawyer in Georgia Superlawyer’s poll and has been selected as one of Georgia’s Legal Elite by Georgia Trend Magazine. He is “AV” rated by Martindale Hubbell.
As past Chair of the Construction Law Section of the Atlanta Bar Association, Mr. Quillian has a depth of knowledge in the construction industry regularly benefiting contractors, owners and subcontractors. A Duke Engineering educated patent lawyer, he also litigates trademark, patent, trade secret misappropriation and personal injury product liability cases. He has successfully handled antitrust, insurance coverage, marble mining, RICO, shareholder rights, and covenant not-to-compete cases. He has served the Federal Bar Association as National General Counsel, as Atlanta Chapter President and as National Younger Lawyers Chair.
Mr. Quillian has succeeded in handling multi-million dollar litigation across the nation and internationally, including many cases with numerous parties. Exemplary cases involved defective design, delay and disruption claims arising from the construction of a twenty-four story office building in St. Louis, Missouri, a hotel/office tower complex in West Palm Beach, Florida, the sprinkler system in the Georgia Dome and paving at the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. He has represented Puerto Rican companies in arbitration and litigation against one of the nation’s largest general contractors. He has successfully pursued cases involving trademarks and anticybersquatting, rights in marble mining property, business torts, software development contracts, Title VII and products liability. He has both pursued and defended insurance companies in catastrophic property loss coverage cases in numerous states. Representative international litigation includes: defense of the nation’s largest BB gun manufacturer against its Russian distributor; a suit by a large manufacturer of gas grills against its German distributor; a suit by a ship loading facility against a major engineering firm for losses suffered in Finland caused by kaolin contamination in the facility when the loading mechanism failed; and several actions involving Canadian defendants.
Before joining Taylor English, Mr. Quillian was a partner with Fellows LaBriola LLP, a litigation boutique and an associate with Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP, a large Atlanta-based general practice firm.
Mr. Quillian is an Elder of Northwest Presbyterian Church in Atlanta. He married in 1985 and is the father of two.