Christopher Q. Davis
Working Solutions Law Firm
Powerful Voice. Strong Results. Compassionate Representation. Meet Chris. Client-focused and results driven NY/NJ employment attorney. I handle severance negotiations, workplace discrimination, unpaid wage and overtime pay recovery, retaliation, wrongful termination. Let's discuss your solution.
During his career, Mr. Davis has served as class counsel on numerous nationwide employment class actions and has tried nearly 20 cases to verdict. Mr. Davis has been recognized by the press as an experienced trial attorney and employment law expert. He is regularly interviewed by print and television media outlets around the world, including The Associated Press, The Shriver Report, and CNN En Español.
Mr. Davis began his career as an Assistant District Attorney in the esteemed Manhattan District Attorneys’ office under then-District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. After winning numerous trials, he was appointed to the Sex Crimes Unit where he prosecuted and tried serious violent felonies, including rape and attempted murder cases.
In private practice since 2006, Mr. Davis has worked for numerous employment law firms, including Thompson, Wigdor & Gilly, LLP (now Wigdor LLP), before starting his own law firm in 2014.
Mr. Davis holds a Bachelor of Arts from the College of the Holy Cross, where he received Dean’s List Honors and a Juris Doctor from Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law.
- Employment Law
- Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Civil Rights
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Discrimination, Employment
- Free Consultation
- Credit Cards Accepted
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Contingent Fees
If you don’t win, we don’t get paid — The majority of our employee cases are paid on a contingent fee basis.
- New York
- New York State Office of Court Administration
- ID Number: 4068680
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- English
- Founding Partner
- Working Solutions Law FIrm
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- Founding Partner of a boutique law firm representing employees and employers in employment law disputes, employment-related consultation, and employment contract/handbook drafting. We represent clients in matters involving unpaid overtime and other wages, discrimination and harassment, wrongful termination, retaliation, whistleblowing, financial industry bonus disputes, breaches of contract, partnership disputes, and fiduciary duty violations, and severance negotiations. We are committed to solutions and not ideologies - we seek honest clients with good faith concerns committed to finding working solutions. We pursue our client's goals with unmatched skill, commitment, and determination, whether in court, at trial, or at the negotiation table. We make house calls and regularly meet with clients at their offices, in the community, or in their houses to discuss recommended legal advice, draft workplace policies and contracts, or simply discuss goals. Pursue your solutions.
- Partner
- Stoll, Glickman, & Bellina LLP
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- Managing Partner of firm's plaintiff's-side employment litigation practice. Lead counsel on federal discrimination, whistleblower and overtime class action lawsuits.
- Attorney
- The Ottinger Firm
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- Managed New York office for plaintiff's-side employment law firm specializing in overtime class actions and wall street bonus disputes. Lead counsel in multiple class actions.
- Associate
- Thompson Wigdor
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- Senior Associate for plaintiff's-side employment litigation firm.
- Assistant District Attorney
- Manhattan District Attorney's Office
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- Felony prosecutor in the Sex Crimes Unit. Substantial trial experience, including trials involving allegations of rape and attempted murder.
- The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law
- J.D.
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- College of the Holy Cross
- B.A.
- Honors: Dean's List
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- Super Lawyers
- FindLaw: Super Lawyers
- Best Employment Attorney
- Best of Livingston, New Jersey
- Super Lawyers
- FindLaw: Super Lawyers
- Super Lawyer
- FindLaw: Super Lawyers
- Super Lawyer
- FindLaw: Super Lawyers
- New York State Bar # 4068680
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- Current
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- New York City Bar Association
- Member
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- American Arbitration Association
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- Faculty, The value of law and diversity the bipoc attorneys path and pitfalls to solo small firm practice, Remote Broadcast NYC
- New York City Bar Association
- Faculty member on CLE panel. Discussed practical impact of implicit and explicit bias on diversity and inclusion initiatives in the legal profession. Participated in discussion on ways to promote sensitivity to cultural differences in law firms with experienced BIPOC attorneys who have transitioned to solo and small law firm practices and the ways that DEI issues continue to impact our current practice.
- Q. Can I ask a Employee that drives a tractor trailer for medical clearance , if I observe him looking medically unfit?
- A: Under the ADA, a disability-related inquiry or medical examination of an employee may be "job-related and consistent with business necessity" when an employer "has a reasonable belief, based on objective evidence, that: (1) an employee's ability to perform essential job functions will be impaired by a medical condition; or (2) an employee will pose a direct threat due to a medical condition. If an employer has a reasonable belief that an employee's present ability to perform essential job functions will be impaired by a medical condition or that s/he will pose a direct threat due to a medical condition, the employer may make disability-related inquiries or require the ... Read More
