Christopher Leddy Email & Phone Number

New Jersey, United States

As part of Becker's Business Services Group and Trucking and Logistics Group, and as former in-house counsel at a staffing firm, I have extensive experience handling complex employment law and contractual issues. I primarily focus on clients within staffing and transportation industries, where I regularly provide counsel on employer/employee relationships.

Greater New York City Area

• Litigation, Transactions & Legal Research: Employment and Labor law and Corporate law
• Transactions & Litigation: Counsel clients in the drafting, maintaining, and negotiating of legal content in various agreements/contracts throughout the U.S. and E.U. in a wide range of industries, including IT.
• Engage in litigation regarding employment related disputes (i.e. restrictive covenants, discrimination, harassment, FLSA, whistleblowing, unemployment), and Department of Labor audits.

Manalapan, New Jersey

• Provided guidance to and participated on executive management committee; Drafted, maintained, and negotiated legal content in all private and public contracts in the U.S., Canada, and E.U., including, but not limited.
• Accomplishments: Revised all vendor management contracts and MSAs; Updated onboarding procedure to ensure legal compliance; Completely overhauled employee and contractor agreements to better protect Encode and to.

• Transactions & Legal Research: Employment and Labor law, Contract law, Corporate law, Compliance
• Counseled clients in all employment related matters, including the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, the Conscientious Employee Protection Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the New Jersey Family Leave Act.

Freehold, New Jersey

• Litigation, Transactions & Legal Research: Employment and Labor law, Contract law, Compliance, Corporate Law
• Transactions & Litigation: Negotiated contracts between public and private employers and employees; Advised clients in all aspects of employment related matters, including the Affordable Care Act; Tailored profit.
• Served as general counsel to many clients, providing services in all phases of contract drafting, reviewing, and negotiating, including, but not limited to, operating agreements, dissolutions, vendor management, VoIP.
• Represented a wide range of businesses - from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies.
• Appeared regularly before the Superior Court, District Court, Office of Administrative Law, and Department of Labor.

• Litigation, Transactions & Legal Research: Corporate law, Employment and Labor law, Real Estate law, Business law, Contract law, Compliance, Trusts & Estates Law
• Transactions & Litigation: Prepared contracts for vendors as well employment contracts; Ensured clients were in compliance with applicable federal and state laws; Drafted, analyzed, and reviewed insurance contracts.
• Appeared regularly before the Superior Court, Office of Administrative Law and municipal bodies including school boards, planning boards and zoning boards.

Prepared tax returns for corporations and individuals as well as performing audits and bookkeeping functions.

• Legal Research & Writing: Performed extensive legal research; reviewed, analyzed and prepared legal memoranda regarding complex legal and equitable issues concerning prerogative writs, corporate disputes, land use and.
• Mediation: Mediated settlement conferences for small claims and landlord-tenant cases.

• Legal Research & Writing: Performed extensive legal research; reviewed, analyzed and prepared legal memoranda regarding post-conviction relief motions and appeals.
• Argued post-conviction relief motions in Court.

• Prosecuted arraignments upon indictments and hearings for setting bail.
• Prosecuted bail and probation violators, as well as breathalyzer refusals.
• Argued motions relating to discovery.

• Legal Research & Writing: Performed extensive legal research; reviewed, analyzed and prepared legal memoranda regarding motions on summary judgment and various related discovery issues.
• Observed trials and mediation conferences.

Master Of Laws (Ll.M.), Taxation, 3.51

Jd, Law

Bachelors, Accounting