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Chris Murray is Co-Chair of the firm’s Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Group. He helps employers create, roll out, and enforce effective arbitration agreements and other ADR programs. He has particular experience with class/collective action waivers, was part of Ogletree’s team that defended such waivers in the Fifth Circuit’s landmark case, D.R. Horton, Inc. v. NLRB, and filed an amicus brief on behalf of major employer associations in the Supreme Court’s pivotal Epic Systems case.
Chris assists employers in addressing a wide variety of employment issues. For purposes of maintaining good employee relations and practicing litigation avoidance, he advises companies on complying with ever-changing legal requirements, developing and updating effective policies and procedures, and handling day-to-day personnel matters.
Chris devotes much of his practice to representing clients in litigation and administrative proceedings, from single-plaintiff cases to nationwide collective actions. He has significant experience in helping employers recover, and obtain compensation for, misappropriated trade secrets and confidential documents and data.
Having served as a law clerk for Judge Fred I. Parker of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Chris has substantial appellate experience. He has briefed cases in the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Tenth, and DC Circuits and the Indiana Supreme Court, argued appeals in the Second, Fifth, Seventh, and Tenth Circuits, and filed amicus briefs for leading employer organizations in the U.S. Supreme Court.
A regular speaker and writer on employment law issues, Chris has been interviewed by National Public Radio’s All Things Considered on employment arbitration and quoted in Employment Law360 and Inside Counsel magazine. His blog commentary on FLSA collective action certification has been cited in several U.S. District Court decisions.
As a thought-leader on employment arbitration, Chris serves as Co-Chair of the Employment Disputes Committee of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR) and has led several important CPR initiatives, including the drafting of CPR’s employment arbitration rules. CPR recognized him as its CPR Partner of the Year for 2024 for his “exceptional engagement with CPR’s activities” and “meaningful commitment to CPR’s mission of dispute prevention and resolution.” In 2013, Chris served as Chair of the Indianapolis Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section. By appointment of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, he served two terms on the Board of Directors for Indiana Federal Community Defender, Inc., which provides representation to indigent clients in federal court. Chris also served several terms as a member of the Board of Managers of the University of Pennsylvania Law School Alumni Society.
