Christine Howard

Practice Areas

Class and Collective Actions

Counseling and Advice

Employee Leaves and Accommodations

FCRA and Background Screening

Litigation and Trials

Wage and Hour

Automotive Dealership

Healthcare

Retail

Career

Christine Howard is a member of the firm's management committee and a partner in the firm’s Tampa and Atlanta offices. She also served as a founding Co-Chair of the firm's Women's Initiative and Leadership Council.

Christine focuses her practice on the defense of employment discrimination, harassment, and retaliation complaints, wage and hour litigation, and employee leave related complaints. She has successfully handled many dispositive motions, hearings, arbitrations, and trials on behalf of employers.

Over the last decade, she has defended numerous collective action cases filed on behalf of classes of employees alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), successfully defeating attempts at class certification in practically every instance. Christine also defends class actions under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), helping employers navigate these claims to successful resolutions and dismissals.

Professional Memberships

Member, American Employment Law Council

Member, HR Tampa

Member, Suncoast Human Resources Management Association

Member, State Bar of Florida and Hillsborough County Bar Associations

Member, Corporate Counsel and Labor and Employment Sections of the State Bar of Georgia and Atlanta Bar Association

Personal

J.D., 1990, with distinction, Emory University School of Law

B.A., 1987, Emory University