Chris B. Bach
Associate
Chris Bach helps employers and companies manage disputes that disrupt operations, increase risk and threaten business priorities. He combines complex commercial litigation and labor and employment experience to resolve high-stakes workplace claims and business conflicts with a strategic, fact-driven approach.
Chris guides clients through employment litigation and agency proceedings, including EEOC charges, discrimination and disability claims, and pregnancy and leave issues. He also advises on front-end employment issues, helping employers assess risk early, respond strategically and address problems before they become larger conflicts.
A significant part of Chris’ practice involves complex litigation, including class actions and FLSA collective actions, along with restrictive covenant, trade secrets and shareholder derivative matters. His background as a law clerk for two federal judges and dispositive motion experience strengthen his ability to cut through complicated records, frame key issues clearly and position claims for efficient resolution.
Experience
- Secured favorable pre-trial resolution for multiple insurers in a high-stakes, multi-jurisdictional insurance coverage dispute involving aircraft lessors with planes stranded in Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. The matter required management of extensive discovery, coordination with more than a dozen experts, and briefing of numerous dispositive motions in a highly complex factual and legal environment.
- Negotiated settlement for 20% of demand to resolve pregnancy discrimination and FMLA claims for a major university.
- Won a key motion in a class action, securing a court order that narrowed the class’s claims and helped to drive a favorable settlement.
- Arbitrated a matter of first impression to final award.
- Obtained partial summary judgment in federal court on a breach of contract claim that eliminated nearly all categories of damages.