Christopher Walsh

Christopher Walsh represents businesses in complex commercial disputes and class-action matters primarily involving state and federal antitrust regulation, corporate governance, and business torts, especially torts relating to a competitor’s improper use of confidential information. Mr. Walsh has successfully tried or arbitrated several cases for, and has won numerous injunctions on behalf of, satisfied clients ranging from Fortune 100 clients to smaller regional firms. He has also mediated dozens of cases and is familiar with AAA arbitration rules and procedures, having handled multiple cases administered by the AAA. He has also successfully argued several appeals before state and federal courts of appeal.

In addition, Mr. Walsh has successfully managed large teams of attorneys to efficiently and effectively defend the firm’s clients in large, high-exposure cases. He is well-versed in matters relating to electronic discovery and litigants’ obligations to preserve and produce electronic information.

Mr. Walsh has authored numerous publications on federal practice, antitrust law, enforcement of arbitral awards, and the protection of trade secrets and confidential information and has lectured on the use of restrictive covenants to protect a firm’s proprietary information.

Rutgers University School of Law (J.D., with honors, 1993)
Bloustein Fellow in Jurisprudence
Articles Editor, Rutgers Law Review
Order of the Coif

Rutgers University Graduate School (M.A., 1993)

Texas Christian University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1988)
Phi Beta Kappa

State of New Jersey

State of New York

United States District Court for the District of New Jersey

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Member, New Jersey State Bar Association (Federal Practice and Procedure Section and Equity Jurisprudence Committee)

Member, American Bar Association (Section of Antitrust Law)

Member, The Association of the Federal Bar of the State of New Jersey

Member, New Jersey Supreme Court District XIII Ethics Committee (2000-2004)

Member, Superior Court of New Jersey's Juvenile Conference Committee

Judge, 2005 Somerset County Bar Association Mock Trial Competition

Member of Executive Committee, Ronald McDonald House, Long Branch & New Brunswick

"Meeting the Pleading Requirements of the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act in a Post-Twombly World," Business & Commercial Litigation Alert, July 2009

"What’s Left Of The “Manifest Disregard” Standard Of Review Of Arbitration Awards: All Of It If You’re In The Second Circuit; Who Knows If You’re In The Third Circuit," Business & Commercial Litigation Alert, July 2009

"A ‘Sea Change’ for Collective Bargaining as the U.S. Supreme Court Permits Unions to Agree to Arbitration for Discrimination Claims," Alternatives, May 2009

"What Lies Ahead," New Jersey Law Journal, March 30, 2009 (Christopher Walsh, Kevin McNulty)

"FTAIA Compliance In A Post-Twombly World," Law360, February 13, 2009

"Stolt-Nielsen’s Comfort for the ‘Average Arbitrator’: An Analysis of The Post-Hall Street ‘Manifest Disregard’ Award Review Standard," Alternatives, February 2009

"Arbitration Agreements: Enforcement With Enhanced Judicial Review," New Jersey Lawyer, November 3, 2008

"Covenants Not to Compete," Employment Litigation in New Jersey Volume 2, 2006

"Service of Summons and Personal Jurisdiction," New Jersey Federal Civil Procedure, Supplements, 2000-2003 (Christopher Walsh, Robert E. Bartkus, ed., 1999, Richard F. Collier, Jr.)

"If You Think More Is Less, Think Again," 180 New Jersey Law Journal 82, January 1, 2005

"Confidentiality and Non-Compete Agreements: Drafting and Counseling Issues," 24 Corporate & Business Law Section Newsletter 13, New Jersey State Bar Association, April, 2001

"Employers Gain Weapon Against Weekend Raiders," 10 New Jersey Lawyer 2061, 2001

"New Jersey Ruling Increases Trade Secret Protection," Counsel's Advisory, Washington Legal Foundation, December 15, 2000

"The Earthweb Trap," 161 New Jersey Law Journal 805, 2000

Quoted in "Supreme Court Backs 'Look Through' Jurisdiction, Then Reverses an Arbitration Order," Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation, April 2009

Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Boardwalk Seminar 2004, ADA Developments: The Relevance of Recent ADA Decisions to the New Jersey Practitioner, April 23, 2004, Atlantic City, New Jersey.

New Jersey State Bar Association, Equity Jurisprudence Committee Meeting, Drafting and Enforcement of Medical Practice Restrictive Covenants, May 14, 2002, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

New Jersey State Bar Association, Second Annual Business Law Symposium, Confidentiality and Noncompete Agreements: Drafting, Counseling, and Litigation Issues, October 12, 2001, East Brunswick, New Jersey.

New Jersey State Bar Association, First Annual Business Law Symposium, Confidentiality and Noncompete Agreements: Drafting and Counseling Issues, October 13, 2000, East Brunswick, New Jersey.

Listed as Super Lawyers Rising Star, Business Litigation, 2006

Law Clerk to the Honorable Robert N. Wilentz, Chief Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court 1993-1994

Allocca v. Wachovia, 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26456 (D.N.J. Nov. 4, 2005)

Dicino v. U.S. Healthcare, 2003 WL 21501818 (D.N.J. June 23, 2003)

Clear Technologies v. Khan, 2002 WL 229724 (D.N.J. Feb. 14, 2002)

Metz v. United Counties Bancorp., 61 F. Supp. 2d 364 (D.N.J. 1999)

Paff v. Kaltenbach, 204 F.3d 425 (3d Cir. 2000)

Total Packaging Corp. v. Tenneco Packaging Corp., 2004 WL 758240 (D.N.J. April 2, 2004)

Zubi v. AT&T Corp. 219 F.3d 220 (3d Cir. 2000), aff'g 79 Fair Empl. Prac. Cas. (BNA) 1182 (D.N.J. 1999)

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