Roger Guilian joined Greyling Insurance Brokerage & Risk Consulting, a division of EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants, bringing 24+ years of litigation and risk management experience to the Architects & Engineers team. In his role, Roger develops legal and legislative initiatives that are critical to large design firms and the construction community, provide risk avoidance and management consulting to Greyling clients and associates, and support Greyling’s expansion of the ACEC Business Insurance Trust program.

Roger Guilian entered the engineering and design professional space in August 2004 when he became General Counsel of Volkert, Inc., an ENR Top-100 civil engineering firm, after a rewarding and successful sixyear career in private practice. Prior to going in-house, Roger was an active litigator, trying dozens of insurance defense jury trials, and litigating hundreds of suits to favorable pre-trial resolutions. During 18- year in-house experience, Roger gained extensive experience and knowledge in matters affecting risk and legal exposure to engineers, their firms, and other design professionals, including contracts risk management, professional liability insurance, and defense of errors & omissions claims.

Roger is a 1995 magna cum laude graduate of The University of Alabama and a 1998 graduate of The University of Alabama School of Law where he excelled as an advocate on the Law School’s championship Trial Advocacy Competition teams. Roger is deeply engaged in industry and engineering associations through which he has cultivated a nationwide network of friends and colleagues in the design professional insurance and risk management space. Roger currently serves on the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Risk Management Committee, ACEC Business Resources & Education Committee, ACEC Management Practices Committee, and the American Bar Association’s Construction Law Forum. Roger served as a Trustee on the ACEC Business Insurance Trust from 2020-2022, was an active contributing member of the ACEC Legal Counsel Forum from 2007-2022, and chaired the Alabama State Bar Construction Law Section in 2018.

Roger is a member in good standing of the Alabama State Bar and the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States.