A highly regarded problem-solver, Chris represents businesses and their executives across a broad spectrum of industries, focusing his practice on the defense of complex employment litigation, high-stakes commercial lawsuits and providing timely and thoughtful advice to his clients. Recognized by the Boston Business Journal as a “40 Under 40” honoree, as a “Top Lawyer Under 40” by the Hispanic National Bar Association, and by Super Lawyers every year since 2013, Chris represents a broad range of corporate clients in federal and state courts, arbitration, and before administrative agencies.

Chris regularly prosecutes and defends business disputes, including in the areas of business torts, breaches of contracts, trade secret litigation and restrictive covenant agreements.

Chris’s practice has an additional focus on employment and and labor matters, particularly in the defense of class and collective actions; wage and hour issues; matters involving race, sex, age, disability, and pregnancy discrimination; wrongful termination; ERISA; RICO; and various state law claims, including wage and discrimination claims under the Massachusetts General Laws.

Chris has represented and advised clients across the country, including in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas and Vermont.

One of Chris’s recent representations included a trademark infringement lawsuit against the former Cleveland Indians baseball franchise, for which Chris was frequently sought after by major sports media outlets for commentary.

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, St. Thomas University School of Law, valedictorian, 2007

BA, Boston College, cum laude with honors, 2004

• Amidst Uncertainty Surrounding the Scope of BIPA Liability, Hyatt Settles Employee Biometric Data Class Claims for $1.5 Million

  By Christopher Pardo |July 2021

• Ninth Circuit Rules California’s ABC Test Is Not Preempted By The Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act

  By Christopher Pardo |May 2021

• “Chapter 10: Overtime Compensation,” and “Chapter 15: Retaliation,” The Fair Labor Standards Act—2013 Cumulative Supplement, The Fair Labor Standards Act, Second Edition, Bloomberg BNA
• Practical Implications of the New Restrictions on New York Employers’ Access to Employee and Applicant Social Media Accounts, New York Law Journal
• “Chapter 10: Overtime Compensation,” The Fair Labor Standards Act—2017 Cumulative Supplement, The Fair Labor Standards Act, Third Edition, Bloomberg BNA
• Mass. At-Will Termination Gets Complex For Employers, Law360
• Potential Hostile Territory in Shifting Non-Compete Landscape, New York Law Journal
• Vaccine Accommodation Suits Show Risk of Blanket Policies, Law360
• “Driving Off the Face of the Fourth Amendment: Weighing Caballes Under the Proposed “Vehicular Frisk” Standard,” Valparaiso University Law Review, (concurrently published in Italy by an Italian legal journal)
• “Chapter 10: Overtime Compensation,” and “Chapter 15: Retaliation,” The Fair Labor Standards Act—2011 Cumulative Supplement, The Fair Labor Standards Act, Second Edition, Bloomberg BNA
• Transgender Students and Sports – Title IX Compliance in an Uncertain World, ABA Labor & Employment Law Vol. 49, No. 2
• Wage Theft Bill Would Increase Risk, Severity Of FLSA Claims, Law360
• Texas federal court upholds DOL rule attacking FLSA tip credit, Texas Bar Journal
• “The Cost of Doing Business: Mitigating Increasing Recession Wage and Hour Risks While Promoting Economic Recovery,” Journal of Business and Securities Law 10.1
• “The Florida Minimum Wage Act: Thoughts on the Impending Notice Debate,” St. Thomas Law Review
• Treatise Supplements to the ABA/BNA treatise, The Fair Labor Standards Act
• Vaccine Accommodation Suits Show Risk Of Blanket Policies, Law360
• In High Stakes Battle Between Arbitration and PAGA, Wins, Losses, and Questions, The Recorder
• Litigation Risks of Videoconferencing Tools, Risk Management Magazine