National labor and employment law firm Fisher & Phillips announced Friday that it has named Southern California-based partner Regina Petty as its first chief diversity officer. In the role, Petty is charged with heading up the Atlanta-based firm’s efforts to create and maintain a diverse and inclusive work environment.

“It’s not like [diversity and inclusion] is a new subject for us,” said firm chair and managing partner Roger Quillen in a joint phone interview with Petty on Friday afternoon. Quillen noted that, as one of the nation’s largest labor and employment firms, Fisher Phillips is regularly called on to advise clients on “D-and-I” issues. “Because our brand is to be experts in this area, it’s important to us, in part, because we want to be a law firm that has a reputation that practices what we preach.”