Attorneys

Christopher P. Lenzo 
Morristown, New Jersey
Partner
phone (973) 695-7777
fax (973) 695-7788
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Christopher P. Lenzo is a partner in the law firm of Green, Savits & Lenzo, LLC. He represents employees in employment law matters, including negotiation, mediation, arbitration, trial litigation, and appellate litigation of claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful discharge, failure to accommodate disabilities, family and medical leave violations, breach of contract, and wage and hour violations. He also mediates employment disputes and conducts workplace investigations.

In his practice, Mr. Lenzo has litigated several reported cases, some of which involved landmark decisions.

Mr. Lenzo has been elected one of the Best Lawyers in America in Labor and Employment Law and a New Jersey Super Lawyer in Employment Litigation by his peers in the employment law bar. He currently serves on the Employment Law Subcommittee of the New Jersey Supreme Court Model Civil Jury Charge Committee. Mr. Lenzo mediates employment law cases for the American Arbitration Association. He serves as a Master for the Sidney Reitman Employment Law American Inn of Court.

Mr. Lenzo has also served as Plaintiffs' Co-Chair of the Statutory Rights Sub-Committee of the Employment Rights and Responsibilities Committee of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the American Bar Association, and as a member of the Pro Bono Committee of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the American Bar Association. Mr. Lenzo is a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), and has served as Secretary, Executive Board Member, Legislative Committee Chair, and Amicus Committee Chair for NELA's New Jersey affiliate (NELA/NJ). Mr. Lenzo is also a member of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association, for which he currently serves as Co-Chair of the Post-Employment Restrictions Subcommittee of the Executive Committee.

Mr. Lenzo writes and lectures on employment law frequently for such organizations as the American Bar Association, the New Jersey State Bar Association, the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, the National Employment Lawyers Association/New Jersey, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America - New Jersey, New Jersey Lawyer - The Magazine, the New Jersey Law Journal, the New Jersey Labor and Employment Law Quarterly, the Essex County Bar Association, the Somerset County Bar Association, the Practising Law Institute, the Council on Education in Management, the Society for Human Resource Management, and the Human Resources Advisory Group of North Jersey.

Areas of Practice:
Employment Law
Appellate Practice
Mediation
Workplace Investigations
Bar Admissions:
New Jersey, 1993
U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 1993
New York, 1994
U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1996
U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 1996
U.S. Supreme Court, 1997
Education:
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1993
J.D.


University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1990
B.A.
Honors: Echols Scholar
Honors: Dean's List
Honors: Graduation in Three Years


Published Works:
Employment Litigation in New Jersey, Chapter 12, Race, Religion and Other Discrimination, LexisNexis/Matthew Bender, 2006


Conducting and Attacking Employment Investigations, New Jersey Law Journal (with Kirsten S. Branigan), 171 N.J.L.J. 1092, March 24, 2003


The Changing Contours of New Jersey Whistleblower Law, New Jersey Lawyer The Magazine, No. 196, April, 1999


Employment Litigation Handbook, Chapter 14, Arbitration and Mediation, Second Part: Arbitration of Employment Disputes: The Employee's Perspective (with Nancy Erika Smith), American Bar Association, 1998


Employment Litigation Handbook, Chapter 4, Experts (with Herbert E. Gerson, Maureen M. Rayborn, and Nancy Erika Smith), American Bar Association, 1998


Cramped Construction: Court Takes Too Narrow a View of the Conscientious Employee Protection Act, New Jersey Law Journal, Vol. CLI, No. 12, 1998


Traps for the Unwary, Chapter 27, Sexual Harassment, Essex County Bar Ass'n, 1997


Sexual Harassment Litigation: Plaintiffs' and Defendants' Strategies, Chapter 4, Current Issues in Evidence Law Regarding Sexual Harassment Cases (co-author), PLI, 1995


Representative Cases:
Rost v. Pfizer, Inc., ____ F.R.D. ____ (S.D.N.Y. 2008)
D'Annunzio v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America, 192 N.J. 110 (  2007)
Maltese v. Twp. of North Brunswick, 353 N.J. Super. 226 (App. Div. 2002)
Estate of Roach v. TRW, Inc., 164 N.J. 598 (  2000)
Quigley v. KPMG Peat Marwick, 330 N.J. Super. 252 (App. Div. 2000)
Higgins v. Pascack Valley Hospital, 158 N.J. 404 (  1999)
Great Western Mortgage Corp. v. Peacock, 110 F.3d 222 (3d Cir. 1997)
Payton v. New Jersey Turnpike Authority, 148 N.J. 524 (  1997)
Singer v. Commodities Corp. (U.S.A.), 292 N.J. Super. 391 (App. Div. 1996)
Rendine v. Pantzer, 141 N.J. 292 (  1995)
Honors and Awards:
Best Lawyers in America, Labor and Employment Law, Woodward/White, Inc., 2006 - Present


New Jersey Super Lawyer, Employment Litigation, Law & Politics and New Jersey Monthly, 2005 - Present


Professional Associations and Memberships:
New Jersey Supreme Court Model Civil Jury Charge Committee, Employment Law Subcommittee, 2002 - Present
Member


New Jersey Superior Court Civil Mediation Program, 2002 - 2007
Mediator


Sidney Reitman Employment Law American Inn of Court, 2003 - Present
Master


National Employment Lawyers Association/New Jersey, 2002 - 2008
Secretary


National Employment Lawyers Association/New Jersey, 2000 - 2008
Member, Executive Board


National Employment Lawyers Association/New Jersey, 2006 - 2008
Chair, Legislative Committee


National Employment Lawyers Association/New Jersey, 1999 - 2001
Chair, Amicus Committee


New Jersey State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section
Post-Employment Restrictions Subcommittee Co-Chair, 2006 - Present


American Arbitration Association, 2007 - Present
Mediator


Past Employment Positions:
Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, Counsel, 2001 - 2006


Francis, Lenzo & Manshel, Member, 1997 - 2001


Smith Mullin, Associate, 1994 - 1997


Justice Daniel J. O'Hern, Supreme Court of New Jersey, Law Clerk, 1993 - 1994


Birth Information:
August 31, 1969, Plainfield, New Jersey

Green, Savits & Lenzo, LLC
35 Airport Road
Morristown, NJ 07960
Telephone: (973) 695-7777
Fax: (973) 695-7788
Email

Our employment law firm proudly serves all of Northern and Central New Jersey, including the communities of Morristown, Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, Elizabeth, Edison, Woodbridge, Trenton, and Princeton, and the Counties of Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Union, and Warren.