Reilly C. Moore

Reilly counsels employers on labor-management relations, OSHA compliance and complex employment law issues. Reilly has worked on multiple union organizing campaigns and counseled employers through the representation petition process. Reilly is experienced in NLRB litigation and counsels employers on other labor-management relations issues, including collective bargaining and grievance and arbitration procedures. In his OSHA practice, Reilly assists clients across industries with safety policy development, OSHA inspection response and citation defense. He has handled multiple serious injury and fatality cases during both the investigative and litigation stages before state and federal OSHA.  Reilly regularly counsels clients on traditional day-to-day employment law issues and handles employment litigation matters, including discrimination and wage-and-hour litigation in state and federal courts.

• Defended major national retailer in a multi-week consolidated unfair labor practice and representation case hearing before the National Labor Relations Board
• Obtained dismissal of state law defamation claim against freight industry client based on federal labor preemption under Section 301 of the LMRA
• Defended regional manufacturing client against willful citation issued by OSHA in connection with an employee fatality
• Represented national protein producer in wage-and-hour class action lawsuit regarding off-the-clock work and walking time allegations under Pennsylvania law
• Provides day-to-day employment law advice and counseling to major national media company
• Provided strategic advice and counsel to telecommunications client with respect to decertification election voter eligibility challenges before the NLRB
• Provided assistance in amicus brief filed for national retailer regarding NLRB election case
• Provide strategic labor and corporate campaign advice to nationwide clothing retailer, online retailer, and food manufacturer
• Represented national food manufacturer in both state and federal COVID-19 OSHA litigation
• Review company policies and communications to employees, provide employment and OSHA advice to companies regarding coronavirus impacts, including compliance with state emergency temporary standards, DOH obligations, CDC guidance
• Provided advice and led company response to multiple complex COVID-19 federal and state plan OSHA investigations
• Defended multiple clients in OSHA proceedings related to work-related accidental deaths
• Provide general OSHA advice and counseling to businesses in a variety of industries including automotive, manufacturing, retail, government contracting, and healthcare
• Drafted successful summary judgment brief for major manufacturing client on former employee’s claims of race, age and gender discrimination.
• Counseled a national manufacturing client during the union petition process, culminating in employees voting against union representation during an in-person election
• Represented employers in challenges to bargaining unit scope issues under the National Labor Relations Act and during contractual grievance and arbitration disputes
• Handled full, nationwide EEOC charge portfolio for grocery chain.

• Recognized as a Leader in Occupational Safety and Health, USA-Nationwide, Chambers USA, 2024-2025

• Named One to Watch in Labor and Employment Law–Management, The Best Lawyers in America, 2023-2024
• Selected as a Rising Star for Employment & Labor, The Washington Post Magazine and Virginia & West Virginia Super Lawyers Magazine, 2021-2024
• University of Richmond School of Law ABA Section Award for Excellence in Labor and Employment Law, 2016

• Chair, Richmond Bar Association, Young Lawyers Section