Overview

Kyllan B. Kershaw provides clients with solutions for labor-relations issues, including challenges stemming from mergers and acquisitions, workforce reduction, startups, and other business restructuring matters.

Kyllan achieves optimal outcomes for her clients in collective bargaining negotiations, election campaigns, labor arbitrations, and labor-related litigation before the National Labor Relations Board. She is a skilled negotiator, with particular experience negotiating exits from costly union pension and healthcare plans and first contracts for large employers with multifacility bargaining units. Kyllan is also a proactive labor-relations counselor, helping clients spot and solve for potential issues before they become problems. She conducts union vulnerability assessments, workplace investigations, provides positive employee relations training, and counsels on labor relations issues such as lockouts and strikes, card-check and neutrality agreements, corporate campaigns, traditional organizing campaigns, withdrawal liability, and other employee benefits matters. Kyllan also represents employers in a range of industries, including transportation, retail, and entertainment clients. She has significant experience representing airlines in labor matters, including arbitrations, collective bargaining negotiations under Section 6 of the Railway Labor Act, bankruptcies, and business restructuring issues.

As a thought-leader on matters related to workforce change, Kyllan often speaks on topics related to automation, ecommerce, generational changes in the workforce, advances in employee communication and social media, and how to level the communication playing field between unions and employers when communicating with younger, more diverse workforces.

Outside of her legal practice, she serves as an advisory board member of the Atlanta Humane Society, having previously served on its Board of Directors and as chair of the Governance Committee. She is also a member of the host committee for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s annual Monster Mash fundraiser benefiting the Marcus Autism Center.

Professional & Community Affiliations

Member

State Bar of Georgia

Board of Directors and Chair

Governance Committee

Atlanta Humane Society

2018-2021

Member, Host Committee

Marcus Autism Center Annual Fundraiser

Recognition

Named, Recommended Attorney

The Legal 500

2019-2021

Named, Rising Star

Super Lawyers

2018-2019

Recipient, Sonya Yarbrough Gee Memorial Scholarship

Speaking Engagements

Labor Law for Employment Lawyers: What Every Business Needs to Know

Littler Executive Employer Conference, Phoenix, AZ

May 9, 2024

Transportation Roundtable

Littler Executive Employer Conference, Phoenix, AZ

May 10, 2023

Reading the Tea Leaves: The Implications of the Supreme Court’s Janus Decision

ABA Midwinter Meeting of the Committee on the Development of the Law under the NLRA, Santa Monica, CA

February 27, 2019

The Joint Employer Standard after Browning Ferris

American Bar Association 12th Annual Labor and Employment Law Section Conference

November 10, 2018

Development of the Law under the NLRA Midwinter Meeting

American Bar Association Committee

February 22, 2016

The 2014 Atlanta Employer Conference

Atlanta, GA

October 9, 2014

The NLRA’s (Surprising) Relevance to All Union-Free Employers: Hidden Liabilities, Expanding Employee Rights, Policy Limits and Case-Handling Challenges

The 2014 Atlanta Employer Conference

Littler Mendelson, Atlanta, GA

October 9, 2014

Education

  • J.D., University of Georgia School of Law, 2009cum laude
  • B.A., University of Georgia, 2006magna cum laude

Bar Admission

Georgia

Courts

  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia
  • U.S. District Court, Middle District of Georgia