Brian Greig offices in Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.'s Austin office, where he is a senior partner and Chair of the Firm's Labor and Employment Department worldwide. He has been with the Firm for over 30 years, a partner since 1983 and has served as an elected member of the Firm's governing Policy Committee. Prior to joining Fulbright, he was a law clerk for the Honorable Joe Fisher, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

Brian focuses in the labor and employment law area representing management. He has considerable experience in trade secret, restrictive covenant, and similar litigation relating to efforts to protect employers' assets and expertise possessed by departing employees. Brian also has extensive experience in construction cases, and is certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Labor and Employment Law. In the early 1980s, he served as special counsel to the Attorney General of Texas in the Ruiz v. Estelle prison conditions litigation.

In addition to litigation, his employment practice includes design of personnel systems, policies, and handbooks, advice on reductions in force and other employment terminations, and investigations of alleged employee misconduct such as sexual harassment.

• Represented a major semiconductor manufacturing company against the industry leader in a trade secrets case using both actual misappropriation and inevitable disclosure theories
• Counseled clients on creation of systems to identify employees for layoff and vetting of client selections considering EEO laws
• Defended unfair labor practices in an NLRB case involving a cement company in an 8 year proceeding
• Defended wage and hour claims, including overtime, independent contractor v. employee, and classification issues
• Litigated multiple unfair labor practice charges to a settlement of withdrawal of complaint and ultimate decertification of a union for a Fortune 100 company
• Successfully defended an age discrimination suit by the EEOC involving a laid-off salesman
• Sued to enjoin use of trade secrets using a rapid action package of pleadings and expedited discovery
• Secured favorable jury verdict for client sued for failing to pay overtime to highly compensated employee
• Responded to strike suit like demand from high profile minority group threatening public claims to impact market cap
• Assisted client in maintaining non-union status in the face of organizing activity
• Defended race, national origin, sex, ADA, and age cases in federal jury trials
• Argued appeals in federal and state court of employment cases

• American Bar Association
• Federal Bar Association
• State Bar of Texas
  • High Tech Litigation course, Course Director
• Travis County Bar Association
• Williamson County Bar Association
• Texas Bar Foundation, Life Fellow
• Travis County Bar Foundation, Founding Fellow
• American College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, Fellow
• Texas Association of Business and Chambers of Commerce
  •  Employment Relations Committee
• Texas Commission on Human Rights, Chairman's Task Force
• The University of Texas Law School Employment & Law Symposium, Chair
• American Employment Law Council 

• "Top 10 Texas Super Lawyers," Law & Politics (2008)
• Nation's 50 Most Powerful Employment Attorneys, Human Resource Executive and Lawdragon (2008)
• The Best Lawyers in America, Labor and Employment Law and Commercial Litigation
• Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition Law & Politics (2008)
• Who's Who Legal: Texas (2007, 2008)
• Who's Who in Finance and Industry
• Who's Who in American Law
• Who's Who in the World
• Who's Who in America
• Chambers U.S.A., Labor and Employment (2003 - 2006 and Tier 1 in 2007)
• "Top 100 Texas Super Lawyers," Law & Politics (2007)
• "Top 50 Central & West Texas Region Super Lawyers," Law & Politics (2003 - 2007)
• "Top-Notch Lawyers," Labor and Employment, Texas Lawyer Go-To Guide (2007)
• "Super Lawyers," Labor and Employment, Law & Politics (2003 - 2006)
• Lawdragon 5000 (2006)
• "Best of Business Attorneys & Corporate Counsel," Best Lawyer in Labor & Employment Law, Austin Business Journal (2005)
• "Best of Business Law," Labor and Employment, Austin Business Journal (2004)
• Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rated AV

• Editor-in-Chief, Texas Employment Law Handbook - A Guide for Employers, Texas Association of Business (annual publication) 
• Contributor, The Developing Labor Law, Labor and Employment Law, ABA Section 
• Contributing Editor, The Developing Labor Law, 5th Edition, 2009 Cumulative Supplement
• Contributing Editor, The Developing Labor Law, 4th Edition, 2003 Supplement
• Former Member, Editorial Review Board for The Texas Labor Letter (monthly publication for employers)
• "Giving Employees a Say at Work - Is It Legal?" The Texas Labor Letter, August 1999
• "Texas Workforce Commission Adopts Payday Act Rules," The Texas Labor Letter, January 1999
• "Trade Secrets - Have You Protected Your Assets?" The Texas Labor Letter, February 1997

• "Labor & Employment Update/A New Administration and Court Decisions: The Pendulum Swings Back," 21st Annual IEHRA Conference, October 2009
• "Covering Your Assets: How to Protect Your Confidential and Trade Secret Information," Texas Association of Business SHRM Employment Relations Symposium, July 2009
• "Unions Target Texas," Union Avoidance Training for Public Hospitals, May 2009
• "Trade Secrets - What is Protected?" American Conference Institute's Expert Forum, May 2009
• "Whose Right is Most Right; Guns in the Workplace," American Petroleum Labor Lawyers Association, Denver, Colorado, September 2008
• "Labor Law Applies, Union or Not! What Nonunion Employers Need to Know About the National Labor Relations Act," 15th Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference, The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas, May 2008
• "Employment Law and Union Issues, What Healthcare Lawyers Need to Know in 2007," Health Care Law, University of Houston Law Foundation, Dallas, Houston, Austin, Texas, Spring 2007
• "Financial Leadership; Alternative Fee Arrangements," presented at the 8th Annual Conference of General Counsel, Texas General Counsel Forum, San Antonio, Texas, November 10, 2006
• "Union Organizing in Your Own Backyard?" presented at the Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Second Annual Health Law Symposium, Austin, Texas, June 9, 2006
• "Military Leave," Seventeenth Institute for Human Resource Management in Government, Austin, Texas, March 13, 2006
• "Unions and the Healthcare Industry in Today’s World," The Central Texas Chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives, Texas Hospital Association, Austin, Texas, February 22, 2006
• "Civil Trial and Post-Trial Practice," Federal Court Practice Seminar, Federal Bar Association-Austin Chapter and the Austin Bar Association, Austin, Texas, November 17, 2005
• "Human Capital Holding Intellectual Property - Asset or Liability?" UT Executive MBA Alumni Association, Austin, Texas, September 23, 2005
• "Employees and Intellectual Property: Pro-Active Planning to Identify and Keep Key Intellectual Property," Computer Law Conference, The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas June 9 - 10, 2005
• "Internal Investigations - Investigating Employee Complaints and Misconduct," Travis County Bar Association meeting, Austin, Texas, April 14, 2003
• "Mediating Sexual Harassment Claims - The Perspective of the Employer," 23rd Annual Employment Relations Symposium of the Texas Association of Business and Chambers of Commerce, San Antonio, Texas, July 19 - 20, 2001
• "Employment and Intellectual Property Law Issues that can Make or Break a Company - Raiding, Poaching & Protecting Employees with Trade Secrets and Confidential Information: Trade Secret Protection, Covenants Not to Compete, and No-Raiding Pledges Under Texas Law," Client Briefing, UT Corporate Counsel Institute, Dallas, Texas, March 9, 23 - 24, 2000; and Houston, April 13 - 14, 2000
• "The Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine: When Only a Lobotomy Will Do," Texas Employment Law Council, San Antonio, Texas, September 30, 1999
• "Independent Contractors and Employee Leasing," University of Texas 3rd Annual Conference on Labor and Employment Law, May 9 and 16, 1996

1975 -  J.D., The University of Texas School of Law
1972 -  B.A., Economics, Washington & Lee University

While in law school, Brian was editor of the American Journal of Criminal Law and a member of the Phi Delta Phi honor society.

Fishing and Hunting

• Headliners Club of Austin, President, Board of Directors
• Headliners Foundation, Board of Directors
• Texas Association of Business, Board of Directors, Member of the Executive Committee 
• Capital of Texas Public Communications Council (KLRU-TV), Board of Directors, Member of the Executive Committee 
• Laguna Gloria Art Museum, former Chair and former President
• Austin Museum of Art, former President
• Zachary Scott Theater, former Vice-President
• Institute of Texan Cultures, former member of the Board of Directors
• St. Stephen's Episcopal School, former member of the Board of Directors
• St. Andrew's School, former member of the Board of Directors
• Austin Tomorrow Ongoing Committee, former Member
• Austin Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts, Founder
• Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts, Houston, co-Founder