Christopher Q. Davis
Working Solutions Law Firm
- Biography
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.
- Practice Areas
- Employment Law
- Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Civil Rights
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Discrimination, Employment
- Fees
- 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.
- Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- New York
- New York State Office of Court Administration
- ID Number: 4068680
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- Languages
- English
- Professional Experience
- Founding Partner
- Working Solutions Law FIrm
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2014 –
Current
- 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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2012 –
2014
- 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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2009 –
2012
- 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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2007 –
2009
- Senior Associate for plaintiff’s-side employment litigation firm.
- Assistant District Attorney
- Manhattan District Attorney’s Office
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2001 –
2007
- Felony prosecutor in the Sex Crimes Unit. Substantial trial experience, including trials involving allegations of rape and attempted murder.
- Education
- The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law
- J.D.
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2001
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- College of the Holy Cross
- B.A.
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1995
- Honors: Dean’s List
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- Awards
- Super Lawyers
- FindLaw: Super Lawyers
- 2023
- Best Employment Attorney
- Best of Livingston, New Jersey
- 2023
- Super Lawyers
- FindLaw: Super Lawyers
- 2022
- Super Lawyer
- FindLaw: Super Lawyers
- 2021
- Super Lawyer
- FindLaw: Super Lawyers
- 2020
- Super Lawyer
- FindLaw: Super Lawyers
- 2019
- Christopher Davis is an attorney who represents clients in the New York, New York area. Christopher Davis is recognized by peers and was selected to Super Lawyers for 2019. This selection is based on an evaluation of 12 indicators including peer recognition and professional achievement in legal practice. Being selected to Super Lawyers is limited to a small number of attorneys in each state. As one of the few attorneys to garner the distinction of Super Lawyers, Christopher Davis has earned the respect of peers as one of the top-rated attorneys in the nation.
- Super Lawyer
- FindLaw: Super Lawyers
- 2017
- Christopher Davis is an attorney who represents clients in the New York, New York area. Christopher Davis is recognized by peers and was selected to Super Lawyers for 2017. This selection is based off of an evaluation of 12 indicators including peer recognition and professional achievement in legal practice. Being selected to Super Lawyers is limited to a small number of attorneys in each state. As one of the few attorneys to garner the distinction of Super Lawyers, Christopher Davis has earned the respect of peers as one of the top-rated attorneys in the nation.
- Top Lawyer
- The Global Whos Who
- 2017
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- Professional Associations
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New York State Bar
 # 4068680
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- Current
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- New York City Bar Association
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- Current
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- American Arbitration Association
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- Current
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