Christina Brunty is an associate in the labor and employment practice group in Dykema’s Chicago office. Ms. Brunty’s practice focuses on a variety of complex employment matters, including state and federal employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination lawsuits.  In addition to labor and employment matters, Ms. Brunty’s expertise extends to defending manufacturers in products liability actions and advising commercial clients on compliance with antibribery and antiboycott laws.

Prior to law school, Ms. Brunty gained invaluable labor union experience while working in the legal department at Screen Actors Guild for two years.  In law school, Ms. Brunty worked as a research assistant for Professor Avishalom Tor, conducting research in the area of behavioral law and economics, and served as Editor-in-Chief for Volume 42 of the Journal of College and University Law.  She also completed an externship with the National Immigrant Justice Center in which she argued in front of the Chicago Immigration Court and helped secure asylum for her clients.

Bar Admissions

Illinois, 2016

Education
University of Notre Dame Law School, J.D., 2016 University of California at Los Angeles, 2011

• To Be or Not to Be (An Independent Contractor): DOL Seeks to Clarify Independent Contractor Test in Landmark Proposed Rule

  By Christina Brunty |September 2020

• Balancing Fourth Amendment Expectations in the Electronic Era

  By Christina Brunty |July 2018

• “Seismic Shifts in Digital Technology:” Supreme Court Creates Exception to Third-Party Doctrine for Cell-Site Location Information

  By Christina Brunty |June 2018