Christine's practice focuses on advising companies on all aspects of labor and employment law on a nationwide basis, with particular focus on California, Colorado and the eastern United States. She advises companies and investors in conducting due diligence with respect to labor and employment issues involved in corporate transactions and financial restructuring. She assists companies in implementing reductions in force, negotiating employment contracts and severance agreements and conducting internal investigations.

Christine represents clients in affirmative action, wage-and-hour, immigration compliance and employment policy audits conducted internally and by federal and state agencies. She also frequently advises and counsels on and litigates Title III matters.

Possessing extensive trial and arbitration experience in employment-related matters, Christine has defended companies and management in employment litigation and administrative proceedings and has prosecuted and defended unfair competition and trade secret claims. She also has significant appellate experience in the employment area and general civil litigation context. She has handled a wide variety of federal, state and local administrative proceedings before the EEOC, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs and comparable state agencies.

Christine frequently conducts in-house training for clients on various topics, including sexual harassment and conducting internal investigations.

Prior to joining the firm, Christine was a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, where she served as the head of the firm’s Labor & Employment practice group in the firm’s McLean, Virginia office. Before the merger with Akin Gump in 2001, Christine was a partner at Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey in Los Angeles.