Faculty Bios

Robert Edmund
Adjunct Professor
B.A., summa cum laude, The Ohio State University, 1995;
J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School, 1998.

Rob Edmund is a labor and employment attorney with the law firm of Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur LLP. Mr. Edmund regularly counsels public and private sector employers on a wide range of employment-related issues, including FMLA compliance, drug testing, public accommodations, employee discipline and terminations, severance agreements, wage and hour matters, and union organizing campaigns. He also has extensive experience defending discrimination suits, labor arbitrations, unfair labor practice charges, defamation suits, and a variety of wrongful discharge claims.

Mr. Edmund received his B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from The Ohio State University, and his law degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He is a member of the Ohio State, Columbus, American, and Federal bar associations as well as the Florida Bar. Currently, he is chair of the Columbus Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Committee and is an American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Fellow to the ABA’s Practice and Procedure Under the NLRA Committee. In 2006, Ohio Super Lawyers magazine named him a Rising Star in the area of labor and employment law.

Mr. Edmund teaches employment discrimination law as an adjunct faculty member at Capital University Law School and is a contributing editor to the American Bar Association’s publication, The Developing Labor Law.

E-mail Professor Edmund at redmund@porterwright.com.