Christian A. Angotti represents employers of all sizes with litigation and counseling matters. His litigation practice focuses primarily on employment discrimination and retaliation, complex wage and hour class and collective actions, and trade secret and unfair competition issues. He has extensive experience in litigating in state and federal courts throughout the United States and has tried multiple cases to verdict.
Christian also has significant experience assisting employers navigate administrative agency actions, including actions with the Department of Labor, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, and the Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations.
With respect to counseling, Christian provides his clients with proactive and pragmatic strategies for managing litigation risk and ensuring compliance with employment laws. He also frequently conducts workplace investigations and counsels employers on workforce-management issues, including employee discipline and termination, wage and hour practices, and employee policies.
During law school, Christian was a member of Duquesne University School of Law’s nationally ranked trial advocacy program, where he competed in trials against other law schools across the country. He also interned at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania and was a contributing author of Duquesne’s Business Law Journal.