Profile - Chrys A. Martin

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Company

Davis Wright Tremaine
1300 SW Fifth Ave Ste 2400
Portland, OR 97201

Phone

(503) 778-5357

Member Bio

Chrys Martin focuses her practice on representing management in employment law and employee benefits issues. She offers her clients 35 years of experience in complex employment litigation, including wage and hour class actions. Chrys applies her depth of knowledge in litigation to counseling employers and training management in pragmatic risk management. Her practical approach to difficult employment issues is also grounded in prior hands-on management and human resources experience. She also serves as an arbitrator for the AAA handling employee benefits, labor and employment law arbitrations as a portion of her practice.

Chrys' employment and labor experience spans the full range of employer concerns, from discrimination, discipline, and harassment issues to union negotiations and arbitrations. She regularly assists clients with employment handbooks and employment contracts, and has managed numerous personnel investigations and employment practices audits. Her benefits work includes an array of ERISA and fiduciary issues, and encompasses everything from self-funded plans to early retirement programs.

Practice Highlights

+ Obtained defense jury verdicts in sexual harassment and age discrimination cases
+ Obtained multiple summary judgments, defense verdicts and directed verdicts in state law benefits claims and ERISA cases
+ Created successful management training programs that reduce employer risk
+ Performed employment practices audits for employer to improve HR best practices
* Prevented potential class-action wage and hour case pre-litigation, with no payments
* Co-lead litigation team in then-largest investment manager fraud case in U.S. history – ERISA and fiduciary liability
* Prevailed at summary judgment stage in wage and hour class action
+ Frequent author and speaker for national and regional HR and legal associations

Professional & Community Activities

* Member, 2003-present; General Counsel, 2005 – Portland Human Resources Management Association
* Fellow, American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, 2001-present
* International Foundation of Employee Benefits, 2000-present
* Chair, Law Institute Committee 2006-2008; Former Chair, Employment Law Committee, Board of Directors, 1997-2000 – Defense Research Institute
* Former Chair, Civil Rights Section; Former Chair, Affirmative Action Committee – Oregon State Bar Association
* Board of Directors, 1994-1999; President, 1999 – Oregon Association of Defense Counsel
* Board of Directors, 2008-2014; Executive Committee and Officer 2010-2014 – Portland Center Stage
* Board of Directors, Cascade AIDS Project, Inc., 2005-2008
* President, Professional Services Council of Oregon, 2001-2002

Professional Recognition

* Named as one of "America's Leading Lawyers for Business" in Employment by Chambers USA, 2005-present
* Awarded AV rating by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
* Named as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" in Labor and Employment Law by Woodward/White, 2007-present
* Selected to "Oregon Super Lawyers" in Employment Law, Law & Politics, 2006-present
* Selected to "Oregon's Top 25 Women Super Lawyers," Law & Politics, 2008-present

Education

* J.D., Lewis & Clark Law School, 1981, cum laude
Cornelius Honor Society
* B.A., Oregon State University, 1975, with honors
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

Firm Information

Davis Wright Tremaine, lauded as the "Innovative Law Firm of the Year" in 2016, is a national full service law firm representing local, regional and national businesses in transactions, risk mitigation and litigation.
The growing needs of our clients have led to the establishment of offices in nine cities in the United States and China:

Seattle and Bellevue, Washington
San Francisco and Los Angeles, California Portland, Oregon
New York, New York
Anchorage, Alaska
Washington, D.C.
Shanghai, China

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP was founded in Seattle in 1908 on a simple guiding principle – to provide clients with quality legal services that would exceed their expectations. This principle has remained intact for decades as we began to expand our reach across the nation and internationally.

Our team currently includes over 500 attorneys covering a wide variety of practice areas. There are over 70 attorneys with expertise in labor and employment law, immigration and employee benefits in our Employment Services Group.

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Practice Areas
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Civil Rights
Employment Law
ERISA, Life, Health & Disability
Labor Law

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