Bill Nolan is an employers’ lawyer at Barnes & Thornburg LLP in Columbus, an office he founded in 2009 and for 15 years as Office Managing Partner guided through steady and thoughtful growth. He brings experience and attentiveness to bear on employment, contract, and other disputes and help clients gain the clarity they need to make optimal and cost-effective decisions in difficult situations, and to plan strategically to minimize those situations.
He recently completed his term as chair of the Ohio State Bar Association’s Labor & Employment Section, has previously chaired the Ohio Management Lawyers Association and United Way of Delaware County, and is a former Mayor and Councilman for the City of Powell, Ohio. On the diversity and inclusion front, he is the past chair of the Columbus Bar Association Managing Partners’ Diversity Initiative and the recipient of the 2019 Ohio Women’s Bar Association Diversity and Inclusion Sponsor Award and the 2017 Advocate for Advancement Smart Women Award.
Bill’s employment practice and decades of office and community leadership and organization building dovetail, as all involve helping organizations run well so that individuals can succeed. He is always looking for new tools and partnerships to accomplish that for clients, teammates, and the community.
Bill Nolan serves as managing partner of Barnes & Thornburg’s Ohio office, which he opened in 2009 and has guided through steady and thoughtful growth. He is motivated by helping people, businesses, and other organizations succeed – in other words, making work WORK.
As a labor and employment litigator and counselor, he works to bring attentiveness and clarity to bear on employment, contract, and other disputes and help clients make optimal and cost-effective decisions in difficult situations. As an office leader, he wants every team member to find and build on his or her strengths, and make the connections inside and outside the law firm to keep them energized and moving forward. As an advocate for diversity and inclusion in the Ohio legal community, Bill is committed to finding new tools and partnerships so all individuals have opportunities to succeed.
Some practice areas where Bill has distinctive experience are litigating and advising on noncompete and trade secret disputes across the country; representing employers and executives in a wide range of employment contract issues, including designing restrictive covenant programs for national employers; helping employers effectively and cost-effectively manage employee health issues and the many related legal issues; guiding workplace investigations; and training client teams on employment law issues and litigation avoidance strategies, both formally and just as part of his approach to day-to-day counseling.
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