Chris is a highly skilled concierge of legal services and trial-tested employment litigator with three decades of experience representing employers in federal and state courts, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the NYS Division of Human Rights. In addition to providing decision-makers with strategic options to tackle complicated and sensitive employment disputes, Chris regularly demonstrates his unique ability to enforce clients’ noncompetition, nonsolicitation, and nondisclosure agreements in jurisdictions across the United States.
Chris also advises management teams on traditional labor matters, including collective bargaining and related proceedings, with an increasing focus on the adult-use cannabis industry. Understanding the urgency all employers face in today’s heavily regulated and litigious business environment, Chris provides 24/7/365 crisis support for emergent issues, including, among other things, employee theft, terminations and severance agreements, wage-and-hour law investigations, and executive employment agreements. Chris extends his practical problem-solving approach to, among many other clients, higher education institutions, charter schools, and public school districts in employment and education law matters, including student disciplinary issues.
When not assisting clients with exigent situations, Chris provides counseling and training to executives, supervisors, managers, and employees on topics such as positive employer-employee relations, anti-harassment compliance, wage-and-hour issues, workplace misconduct investigations, documentation and performance reviews, and avoiding workplace violence.
In addition to his labor and employment practice, Chris serves as the firm's co-marketing partner.