Kristine Grady Derewicz

Healthcare; Higher Education; Labor Management Relations; Litigation and Trials

Kristine Grady Derewicz has spent her career counseling and advocating on behalf of employers. Kris excels at working with clients to solve problems and to ensure legal compliance. While her client relationships are diverse in terms of size, scope, and industry, she works extensively with healthcare employers and institutes of higher education. Kris has worked with clients on a broad variety of matters, ranging from advice on navigating the practical implementation of legal requirements in the day-to-day workplace to labor relations issues to jury trials in state and federal courts.

Substantively, Kris has experience in many areas of labor and employment law, including discrimination, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). She has mediated and arbitrated dozens of cases, tried numerous matters in jury and bench trials, and provides advice on a myriad of matters on a daily basis. Kris has worked with clients on NLRA issues, including ULP investigations and trials; corporate transactions involving union accretions, successor employers, and related concerns; collective bargaining negotiations; representation petitions; and arbitrations related to both contract interpretation and employee discipline.

Kris is currently a member of the firm’s Board of Directors. She served on Littler's firm-wide Management Committee from 2018 through 2023, following her role as the office managing shareholder of the Philadelphia office. One of the Philadelphia office's founding members, Kris has also served on the firm's Associates Committee, the Client Investment Management Committee, and the Nominating Committee. She represents a number of Philadelphia-based social service agencies on a pro bono basis, and she serves on the boards of several Philadelphia-based nonprofit organizations.