Christopher Marlborough
The Marlborough Law Firm, P.C.
Christopher Marlborough is the founder of the Marlborough Law Firm. He is passionate about representing workers on wage theft issues.
Chris earned an undergraduate graduate degree from State University of New York at Purchase from which he graduated magna cum laude. He earned a juris doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School, from which he also graduated magna cum laude.
Chris has been practicing in litigation since 2004 and has concentrated his practice on complex class and collective action cases since 2007. In both 2013 and 2014, Chris was selected by his peers and experts in the field as one of SuperLawyers Magazine's Rising Stars in the New York Metropolitan area. From 2015 through 2022, he was selected to the SuperLawyers list for more experienced attorneys.
Chris is a former chair and a former Vice Chair of the Nassau County Bar Association Labor and Employment Committee.
Before founding the firm, Chris worked on a number of high-profile consumer fraud and wage theft cases. He was a member of the trial team that secured two jury verdicts for $37 and $50 million on behalf of a class of 150,000 Avacor users. Chris' experience in wage theft cases includes an action against Ruby Tuesday, Inc., where the court issued an order requiring that notice of the case be sent to more than 82,000 of the company's current and former bartenders, servers and food runners.
Since he founded the firm in 2013 Chris has served as Lead or Co-Lead Counsel in a number of certified class action cases. In 2020, Chris obtained court approval of a $7,140,000 settlement against the Call-A-Head port-a-potty company on behalf of its portable toilet service technicians. That same year, he obtained court approval of an $11,000,000 settlement on behalf of workers at a chain of discount stores in New York.
- Consumer Law
- Class Action
- Employment Law
- Overtime & Unpaid Wages
- Free Consultation
- Contingent Fees
- California
- State Bar of California
- ID Number: 298219
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- Florida
- The Florida Bar
- ID Number: 894621
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- New Jersey
- New Jersey Courts
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- New York
- New York State Office of Court Administration
- ID Number: 4208963
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- U.S. Supreme Court
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- English: Spoken, Written
- Principal Attorney
- The Marlborough Law Firm, P.C.
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- Associate Attorney
- Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP
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- Litigation Associate
- McCoyd, Parkas and Ronan
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- Brooklyn Law School
- J.D. (2003) | Law
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- Honors: Sparer Public Interest Fellow Judge Moses M. Weinstein Scholar
- Activities: Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition, Writing Team Journal of Law and Policy, Senior Associate Editor
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- State University of New York - College at Purchase
- B.S. (1991) | Psychology
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- Honors: Graduated magna cum laude President's Merit Scholar Dean's List
- Activities: Crisis Intervention Hotline
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- SuperLawyers
- SuperLawyers
- Selected for Superlawyrs list each year from 2015 - 2022
- Award of Distinguished Professional Achievement
- Nassau County Bar Association - Labor and Employment Committee
- Rising Stars
- SuperLawyers
- Selected Rising Stars NY Metropolitan area 2013 and 2014.
- Nassau Employment Lawyers Association, New York Chapter
- Member
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- National Lawyers Guild
- Legal Observer
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- Nassau County Bar Association
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- Activities: Labor and Employment Committee- Chair 2016-2018 Labor and Employment Committee- Vice Chair 2014-2016
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- Casting a Wide Net in Wage and Hour Lawsuits
- Nassau County Bar Association, Nassau Lawyer
- Evolution, Child Abuse and the Constitution
- Brooklyn Law School, Journal of Law and Policy
- Comparing New York and Federal Wage Theft Laws: Distinctions that Make a Difference, Nassau County Bar Association
- Nassau County Bar Association
- Wage and Hour Class Action Law, Nassau County Bar Association
- Nassau County Bar Association
- Point/Counterpoint- Employment Law Edition, Nassau County Bar Association
- Nassau County Bar Association
- Basics of Wage and Hour Law, Bridge the Gap, Nassau County Bar Association
- Nassau County Bar Association
- Workplace Retaliation Under the FLSA and Other Statutes, Nassau County Bar Association
- Nassau County Bar Association
- Website
- Christopher Marlborough's Website Profile
- Website
- The Marlborough Law Firm, P.C. Website
- Blog
- fightwagetheft.com
- New York Rings in 2021 with Minimum Wage Increases
December 31, 2020 - NY Increases Minimum Wage and Adds Paid Family Leave Benefit for 2018
January 15, 2018 - New York Will Finally Raise Its Tipped Minimum Wage To $7.50
February 23, 2015
- Q. Can an employer sue me for quitting without notice while not having a written employment contract?
- A: Generally, no. Employees in New York State are presumed to be “at-will,” meaning that the employment relationship can be terminated at any time for any reason, by either the employee or the employer, unless there is a law or contractual agreement to the contrary.
- Q. I started a job and quit after two shifts do they still have to pay me? the didn't send me paperwork until last night
- A: You are entitled to be paid for all hours that you worked, even if you had not completed your paperwork when you performed the work.
- Q. If I only work 6 hours a day why do I have to work 6.5 for a break?
- A: New York law requires employers to provide most employees a thirty-minute meal break when working more than six hours a day. See https://dol.ny.gov/day-rest-and-meal-periods. Since you state that you are working no more than six hours a day (and if you are not occasionally working over six hours a day), the employer may not be required to provide you with a thirty-minute break. However, the employer is permitted to determine your schedule. The employer might have another reason why it requires the break. You might consider pointing out to your employer that they are not required by law to give you the break when working 6 hours or less and ask if they will accommodate your request to work without a meal break. Best of luck to you.
