Ms Christina Janice > Seyfarth Shaw LLP > Chicago, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Ms Christina Janice
Work Department
Labor and Employment Department; Complex Discrimination Litigation Practice Group
Position
Christina Janice is a senior counsel of Seyfarth Shaw. Her practice focuses on defending employers throughout the country in complex, high profile employment discrimination class actions and single plaintiff litigation, EEOC pattern or practice lawsuits, wage & hour class and collective actions, Department of Labor compliance partnerships, EEOC systemic and individual investigations and subpoena enforcement proceedings, and executive and other high profile individual employment disputes. A former in-house vice president, associate general counsel and head of litigation for a multinational S&P 500 Index company, Christina provides employers with a unique combination of strategic legal counsel with a business partner perspective: counseling clients to achieve informed and innovative solutions to a wide variety of compliance topics, domestic and international labor disputes and human resources matters, internal audits, complex internal investigations, executive compensation and severance programs, and workforce integration and retrenchment incident to mergers and acquisitions. She has extensive experience in arbitration, mediation and other forms of early alternative dispute resolution, and in counseling employers on the effective use of these methodologies. Christina is a contributing author to the firm’s annual EEOC-Initiated Litigation Report and Workplace Class Action Blog.
Career
Christina is a recipient of The Legal 500 2014 In-House Award, Labor & Employment Law Team of the Year, and is recognized by Martindale-Hubbell as a Top Rated Lawyer for Litigation.
Memberships
Federal Bar Association, Chicago Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association, Society For Human Resource Management
Education
JD, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (1991); BA, John Carroll University (1988)
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Government > Government contracts
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious