Roger Wolfe is the most senior Member of the Firm's Labor and Employment Group. Mr. Wolfe joined the Firm in 1974, after serving one year as a law clerk for the Honorable K. K. Hall, United States District Court, Southern District of West Virginia. Since that time, Mr. Wolfe has worked extensively in all aspects of employment law, including wrongful discharge, employment and labor litigation, unfair labor practices and other procedures before the NLRB, organizing campaigns, labor negotiations, arbitrations, strikes, unemployment compensation proceedings, matters before the EEOC, federal and state departments of labor and the West Virginia Human Rights Commission. He has also been involved in a number of class actions and other complex cases and has pursued graduate courses in the application of statistical methodology to employment matters.  Mr. Wolfe served a number of times as a mediator in employment disputes and as a lecturer on employment issues. Mr. Wolfe has also served as an adjunct professor of employment law for the West Virginia University College of Law and in the University's Masters of Legal Studies.

Among the professional honors he has received, Mr. Wolfe has been listed for a number of years in the Best Lawyers in America^®, Labor and Employment Law, published by Woodward/White, Inc. and has been named among America's leading labor and employment lawyers by Chambers USA. Mr. Wolfe served for many years as the Chair of the West Virginia State Bar's Employment Law Committee and, in 1992, co-chaired the West Virginia Blue Ribbon Personnel Commission, which was appointed by the Governor and Legislature to study public bargaining issues in West Virginia. Mr. Wolfe is currently serving on the Public Employee Bargaining Commission, which was recently appointed by the Governor to consider public employer bargaining issues.

Mr. Wolfe has also been active throughout his career in the community, particularly in the musical arts. He has been a frequent performer in musical theater productions. In recent years, Mr. Wolfe has also been active in animal protection issues. He has trained service dogs for a mobility service organization and is Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Kanawha/Charleston Humane Association.

Mr. Wolfe graduated from West Virginia University in 1970 with a degree in psychology and a minor in music. He graduated from the West Virginia University College of Law in 1973 where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. While in law school, he served as a comment editor for the West Virginia Law Review.

• American Bar Association
  
• West Virginia State Bar, Chair 1994-1998; (Committee on Labor and Employment Law)
  
• West Virginia State Bar
  
• Kanawha County Bar Association
  
• Frequently serves as mediator in Employment Law disputes
  
• Contributor to both www.TheHRSpecialist.com and www.BusinessManagementDaily.com
  

• Phi Alpha Delta
  
• American Arbitration Association
  
• West Virginia Human Rights Commission Mediation Project
  
• Cantori Montani (Community Choral Group); Frequent soloist with church and community music organizations
  

• Frequent lecturer on various Employment Law Topics
  
• Adjunct Professor of Employment Law for West Virginia University
  

• Comment Editor, West Virginia Law Review, 1973
  
• "Negligence - Intoxicating Liquors-Vendor's Liability for Damages by Intoxicated Patrons," 74 WV Law Rev. 408 (1972)
  

• Co-chair, West Virginia Blue Ribbon Personnel Commission, 1992
  
• Order of the Coif, 1973
  
• Editor, West Virginia Law Review, 1972 - 1973
  
• Selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America^®, 1995-2011
  
• Ranked in Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business in the area of Labor & Employment Law in West Virginia, 2010
• Named by Law & Politics to the 2010 edition of West Virginia Super Lawyers^®