Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Labor and Employment Department; Complex Discrimination Litigation Practice Group

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.

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.

Federal Bar Association, Chicago Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association, Society For Human Resource Management

JD, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (1991); BA, John Carroll University (1988)