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Chris leads the firm's Employment Counseling and Litigation, and Food and Hospitality Practice Groups. He represents a number of local, national, and international companies in employment and civil rights matters, covenants not to compete and trade secret disputes, intellectual property matters, and other complex business disputes in numerous jurisdictions across the country.

Chris's employment practice focuses on protecting and maximizing the human capital investment his clients have made in their employees. Chris has represented management in all aspects of employment practice including discrimination claims, harassment claims, disability claims, leave claims of all types, wage and hour disputes, work-for-hire issues, employee stockholder and stock option agreements, and numerous other issues involving the employment relationship. He regularly develops policies, practices, and procedures for companies, and provides employment training in diversity, anti discrimination, and harassment issues. Chris brings unique experience to his employment practice, as he has represented both complainants and employers before the EEOC and the various state human rights commissions throughout New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and elsewhere. He has served as lead trial counsel in both state and federal courts.

Chris also counsels corporate entities in developing intellectual property protection programs calculated to protect the trade secrets, good will and inventions that employees have created within the scope of their employment. He has litigated patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret cases in state and federal courts nationally, and has notable and broad experience in matters involving covenants not to compete in particular.

Chris is the Chair of the Employment Counseling and Litigation Practice Group, The Intellectual Property Trial Practice Team, and the Co-Chair of the Food Service and Hospitality Practice Group here at NK+M.

Chris has published and spoken extensively in employment and intellectual property matters and is a co-author of the Defense Research Institute's New Hampshire chapter of its Compendium of the Law of Covenants Not to Compete in The 50 States.

Chris, a native New Englander, scandalously married a native New Yorker. Since then, they have shared all the region has to offer with their two daughters, including the slopes, the beach, and "the City". They are happily rooted in their home town and community south of the White Mountains.

University of New Hampshire (B.A., summa cum laude, 1986)
Boston College Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1990)

Admitted to the Bar in Massachusetts and New Hampshire