About FCD Esquire

Lead Attorney

Fred Dawkins

Founding Attorney

Fred Dawkins has more than thirty years of employment-related litigation and counseling experience. Fred has tried cases in state and federal courts, and has litigated employment discrimination, retaliation, trade secret, restrictive covenant, business tort, wage and hour, and trademark infringement matters.

Outside the courtroom, Fred has counseled businesses on employment contracts; non-competition covenants; race, national origin, gender, age, and disability discrimination; retaliation; workplace harassment; unpaid overtime; and employee discipline matters. He also has extensive experience performing workplace investigations, including investigations involving c-level executives.

Fred is well-versed in alternative dispute resolution, having completed a forty-hour mediation training and practicum with the Center for Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University, and having participated in approximately eighty arbitrations and mediations.