Christopher P. Lenzo

Serving Northern and Central New Jersey

Christopher P. Lenzois 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.  He and his colleague Claudia Reis won a $1.549 million jury verdict in a retaliation case against New Jersey Transit after a month-long trial during 2009.

Since 2006, Mr. Lenzo has been included in the list of Best Lawyers in America in the practice area of labor and employment law.  He has also been included in the Thomson Reuters list of New Jersey Super Lawyers in the areas of labor and employment law and plaintiffs’ employment litigation since 2005.*

Mr. Lenzo has served on the Employment Law Subcommittee of the New Jersey Supreme Court Model Civil Jury Charge Committee. He also mediates employment law cases for the American Arbitration Association and serves as a Master for the Sidney Reitman Employment Law American Inn of Court.

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

Discrimination

Harassment

Hostile Work Environment

Retaliation

Whistleblower Claims

Family and Medical Leave

Wage and Hour Violations

Wrongful Discharge

Employment Contracts

Restrictive Covenants

Severance Pay

Employee Privacy

Appellate Practice

Mediation

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
Dean’s List
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

Reported Cases:

Rost v. Pfizer, Inc., 248 F.R.D. 417 (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, Best Lawyers, 2006 – Present

New Jersey Super Lawyer, Labor and Employment Law and Plaintiffs’ Employment Litigation, Thomson Reuters, 2005 – Present

Professional Associations and Memberships:

New Jersey Supreme Court Model Civil Jury Charge Committee, Employment Law Subcommittee, 2002 – 2012

Member

 

Sidney Reitman Employment Law American Inn of Court, 2003 – Present

Master

 

New Jersey State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section Executive Committee Member, 2011 – Present

Model Jury Charges Subcommittee Coordinator, 2011 – Present

Employment Trial Practices Subcommittee  Co-Chair, 2010 – 2011

Post-Employment Restrictions Subcommittee Co-Chair, 2006 – 2010

 

American Arbitration Association, 2007 – Present

Mediator

 

New Jersey Superior Court Civil Mediation Program, 2002 – 2007

Mediator

 

National Employment Lawyers Association/New Jersey, 2002 – Present

Secretary, 2002 – 2004, 2006 – 2008
Member, Executive Board, 2000 – 2004, 2006 – 2008
Chair, Legislative Committee, 2006 – 2008
Chair, Amicus Committee, 1999 – 2001

 

Past Employment:

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

*No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. For Best Lawyers methodology, see www.bestlawyers.com. For Super Lawyers methodology, see www.superlawyers.com

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

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.