Conor H. Meeks

Conor has also represented employers in occupational safety and health matters, including providing advice on day-to-day compliance issues as well as defending enforcement actions by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) or equivalent state agencies.  He has assisted clients in all phases of OSHA enforcement proceedings, including during workplace investigations as well as litigating alleged violations where OSHA has issued citations. Conor has experience negotiating directly with OSHA or equivalent state agencies to resolve citations informally, and he has represented employers in contesting citations before the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission and equivalent state review commissions. Conor has assisted clients with a wide variety of OSHA matters under both the general industry and construction standards, including but not limited to injury and illness recordkeeping and reporting, product labeling requirements under the Hazard Communication Standard, fall protection, machine guarding, lockout/tagout (LOTO), asbestos and lead paint awareness and remediation, process safety management, as well as citations issued under OSHA’s multi-employer citation policy. Additionally, Conor has represented employers in defending OSHA investigations of retaliation complaints pursuant to the various federal whistleblower statutes enforced by OSHA.

Conor graduated summa cum laude from Purdue University, Krannert School of Management with a B.S. in accounting and management and minors in international business and finance and passed the Uniform CPA examination. Conor received his J.D., summa cum laude, from Pepperdine University School of Law where he was Order of the Coif and Order of the Barristers. During law school, he was a member of the National Interschool Trial Team and a Fellow of the Geoffrey H. Palmer Center for Entrepreneurship & Law.