Christopher M. Heintskill

Christopher Heintskill is a partner in the Litigation Practice Group. His primary focus is litigating commercial, real-estate, and tax disputes for large and middle-market clients. He has extensive experience with a large range of actions, including contract disputes, shareholder actions, professional liability claims, real-estate and commission disputes, business-insurance coverage matters, business torts including tortious interference with contracts and prospective business relations and breaches of fiduciary duties, and various tax disputes against the Illinois Department of Revenue.

Chris has successfully tried cases to verdict, and has arbitrated a number of matters before FINRA, NYSE, NASD, and various other self-regulatory agencies. Chris's successes include:

• Obtaining and defending against temporary restraining orders and preliminary and permanent injunctions on behalf of numerous Fortune 500 companies in claims involving former executive and sales representatives' covenants not to compete, non-solicitation agreements, and alleged theft of trade secrets;
• Representing manufacturing, insurance-brokerage, and trade companies against claims of raiding competitors' employees and tortiously interfering with their respective contracts and business relationships;
• Arbitrating executive compensation claims before FINRA, NYSE, NASD, and AAA on behalf of large-market banking and investment firms; and
• Litigating high-stakes tax controversies involving the assessment of taxes on car dealerships for advance trade-in credits and on suppliers of pre-paid cellular phone minutes.

Chris also litigates and arbitrates disputes involving Homeowners' Associations under the Illinois Condominium Property Act.

Chris is a member of the firm's Labor & Employment Service Group where he focuses on litigating employment cases for large and middle-market clients. His experience includes litigating actions involving the Fair Housing Act, Title VII, ADA, ADEA, FMLA, ERISA, Illinois Human Rights Act, and the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act in both federal and state courts, as well as charges before the Illinois Human Rights Commission and the EEOC.