• Named one of the "Top One Hundred Labor Attorneys in America", The Labor Relations Institute, Inc., 2006
• Named on list of "Connecticut Super Lawyers for 2006", Connecticut Magazine, 2006
• Volunteer Labor Counsel to the Assisted Living Federation of America
• Volunteer Labor Counsel to the Connecticut Association of Health Care Facilities, Inc.
• Comments Editor, Syracuse Law Review, 1977-1978
• Designated Labor Counsel to the Stamford Symphony

Roger Gilson is a Partner in the Stamford, Connecticut, office of Jackson Lewis LLP.  He received his Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from Syracuse University in 1974 and a Master's Degree in Public Administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University in 1976.  In 1978, Mr. Gilson received his Doctor of Law, cum laude, from the Syracuse University College of Law, where he served as the Comments Editor of the Syracuse Law Review.  Mr. Gilson is a member of the Connecticut and New York Bars and is admitted to the U.S. District Court, Districts of Connecticut, Eastern New York and Southern New York.  He is also a member of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the American Bar Association and its Developing Labor Law Committee.  Mr. Gilson practices in all areas of labor and employment law with particular emphasis on traditional labor law for health care employers.

He has extensive experience representing employers in labor cases before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), State Labor Boards and federal and state courts.  He has been involved in negotiating more than 150 collective bargaining agreements across the United States and is a recognized authority with respect to the handling and preempting strikes, picketing and corporate campaigns.  In 2001, as counsel to the Connecticut Association of Healthcare Facilities and the CAHCF Strike Task Force, he advised the industry in defeating the first and only state-wide nursing home strike.  He is also counsel to the Assisted Living Federation of America.  In 2006, the Labor Relations Institute, Inc. named Mr. Gilson as one of the “Top One Hundred Labor Attorneys in America” and Connecticut Magazine named him on its list of Connecticut Super Lawyers for 2006.  

Mr. Gilson is a frequent speaker before business and employer associations, including the Business Council of New York, the Voluntary Hospitals of America (Human Resources Affinity Group), the American Health Care Association Executive Directors Committee, the New York State Health Facilities Association, and the Connecticut Association of Health Care Facilities.  He is on the faculty for Executive Enterprises’ seminars, "Corrective Bargaining" and "Strategies for Combating Strikes, Corporate Campaigns and other Union Pressure Tactics."  He is currently also a Business Associate member of the American Society of Healthcare Human Resources Administrators and the Connecticut Hospital Association.  Recently, for “pro bono,” he was designated Labor Counsel to the Stamford Symphony. 

He co-authored Strike Preparation Manual: Health Care Employer's Guide to Winning Strikes and Maintaining Patient Care Service (Healthcare Publishers, Inc.).  Mr. Gilson recently co-authored articles in HR Pulse on "Union Corporate Campaigns—Forcing Hospital Neutrality in the Face of Union Organizing" and "Employer Neutrality Agreements in Union Organizing Campaigns—Union Versus Employee Rights" for the American Society of Healthcare Human Resource Administrators of the American Hospital Association.  He also co-authored an article in Assisted Living Executive on "Senior Living in the Crosshairs."  He is the editor of Jackson Lewis quarterly bulletin entitled The Health Care Employer.