Christopher C. Murray

Mr. Murray has litigated dozens of cases alleging claims of discrimination, retaliation, or underpayment of wages and overtime, among other claims. 

In addition, Mr. Murray’s representative collective and class action experience includes:

• For national health care provider, co-lead counsel defending collective action by employees alleging off-the-clock work due to automated meal-break deductions. 

• For national student loan lender, co-lead counsel defending putative collective action by call center employees in Indiana, Ohio, and New York alleging overtime claims based on computer boot-up time.

• For national meat processing company, co-counsel defending collective actions by workers in Indiana and Illinois alleging donning-and-doffing claims. 

• For county government, lead counsel defending collective action by dispatchers alleging they had been misclassified as employees engaged in law enforcement activities. 

• For township government, co-lead counsel in action by emergency medical technicians alleging they had been misclassified as employees engaged in fire protection activities. 

• For provider of residential care for youth, co-lead counsel defending putative collective action by employees challenging employer’s automatic deduction of meal periods. 

• For national telecommunications company, defended collective actions by call center employees alleging overtime claims based on computer boot-up time. 

• For waste removal company, defended putative class action by drivers alleging overtime and unpaid wage claims based on purported off-the-clock work.

Mr. Murray’s representative experience in litigating unfair competition claims includes:

• For national insurance broker, represented client in action against group of former employees who moved to competitor in breach of non-solicitation agreement and who misappropriated confidential information.

• For national manufacturer, represented client in action against group of former employees who started competing company using confidential information misappropriated from client. 

• For waste removal company, represented client in action against former employees who moved to competitor and who misappropriated confidential information.

Mr. Murray’s representative appellate experience includes:

• D.R. Horton v. NLRB, Case No. 12-60031 (5th Cir.) (pending) (represent client challenging new NLRB rule banning class action waivers in employment arbitration agreements).

• New York New York, LLC v. NLRB, 676 F.3d 193 (D.C. Cir. 2012) (represented the United States Chamber of Commerce as amicus challenging new NLRB rule governing access of certain non-employees to employer’s property for organizing purposes).

• Griffin v. Sisters of St. Francis, 489 F.3d 838 (7th. Cir. 2007) (successfully represented client in case where Seventh Circuit addressed as a matter of first impression whether a male plaintiff can state a claim under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act based on an adverse employment action allegedly taken because of his partner’s pregnancy). 

• Phillips v. City of Bloomington, 869 N.E.2d 1281 (Ind. Ct. App. 2007) (successfully represented client defending wrongful discharge claim).

• Davis v. VanNatta, 438 F.3d 707 (7th Cir. 2006) (pro bono representation of client on constitutional claims relating to criminal trial).