Meet Christine Hintze
Christine Hintze is a New York employment attorney at Phillips & Associates, a Chambers-ranked employment litigation firm representing employees exclusively. She represents employees in sexual harassment, sexual assault, discrimination, retaliation, and whistleblower matters, with particular experience in workplace power dynamics, workplace relationship harassment, and executive misconduct.
Christine represents professionals in banking, financial services, hedge funds, private equity, technology, and other corporate environments. Her matters frequently involve substantial compensation, confidentiality, professional reputation, and long-term career consequences.
Her practice includes unwanted advances by supervisors, pressure to enter or continue a workplace relationship, quid pro quo sexual harassment, and retaliation after an employee rejects an advance, ends a relationship, or reports misconduct. She also represents employees facing hostile work environments, pregnancy discrimination, gender discrimination, and disability discrimination.
Christine uses a trauma-informed approach to sensitive workplace disputes. She advises employees before internal complaints, HR investigations, severance negotiations, and decisions about leaving employment, helping clients preserve evidence and evaluate their legal options, privacy, and career interests.
Before joining Phillips & Associates, Christine was an associate at ArentFox Schiff, working on investigations involving forced labor, customs enforcement, and the False Claims Act. She earned her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, served on the Journal of Law and Policy, and received the Dennis J. Block Center for International Business Law Fellowship. She interned for U.S. Magistrate Judge Cathy Waldor in the District of New Jersey.
Phillips & Associates has represented employees only since 2011. Employment law is its sole practice. The firm is recognized in Best Law Firms, and its attorneys include lawyers recognized in The Best Lawyers in America.
The firm has litigated approximately 2,000 employment cases in federal and state courts and recovered more than $360 million for employees. Its trials, appeals, and published decisions have helped shape New York employment law, including binding Second Circuit precedent and decisions cited by courts and discussed by plaintiff-side and management-side employment law firms nationwide.
Phillips & Associates’ attorneys have litigated against more than 550 distinct defense firms, including Jackson Lewis, Littler Mendelson, Ogletree Deakins, Morgan Lewis, Seyfarth Shaw, and Proskauer Rose. They have appeared before nearly every currently sitting District Judge in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
Every client receives a dedicated three-person legal team consisting of two attorneys and a paralegal, supervised by a partner or senior litigator. Many of the firm’s partners have worked together for more than a decade. This structure combines substantial litigation resources with partner-led, boutique-style representation.
Phillips & Associates handles high-profile and confidential matters involving powerful individuals and sophisticated employers. . All Phillips & Associates attorneys, including partners, and intake staff receive trauma-informed training to better support individuals reporting sexual harassment, sexual assault, discrimination, and retaliation.
Founder William K. Phillips' prior investment-banking experience also informs the firm's approach to valuation, negotiation and institutional risk. For a confidential consultation, contact Christine Hintze through this profile. The firm represents clients on a contingency fee basis.