McDermott Will & Emery LLP

Employment

Chris Foster advises leading companies and families in labor and employment matters.

Chris represents companies navigating union organizing, election and decertification campaigns, as well as NLRB unfair labor practice investigations, trials and appeals. He provides strategic planning on the addition, merging and divesting of unionized operations.

Chris defends employers in arbitrations involving contract disputes and terminations, and against state and federal wage and hour, discrimination, harassment and wrongful termination claims.

Chris also focuses on advising individuals, families, closely-held businesses, private foundations and non-profits on employment issues, training, compliance and risk mitigation in hiring and separation of employees, non-disclosure and privacy agreements, development of employee handbooks and policies/procedures, and related claims and litigation.

Chris is an editor for the Developing Labor Law treatise and formerly served as a senior articles editor for the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law. During undergraduate, he studied economics and philosophy at the University of Oxford under a full, one-year scholarship from Santa Clara University.

Chris serves as head of the Firm’s traditional labor subgroup and is the San Francisco office hiring partner. Chris is also pro bono counsel for the San Francisco Zoo.