Overview

Cristin Casey is an experienced attorney who focuses her practice on labor and employment law matters. 

Prior to joining Littler, Cristin was with the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries as BOLI Chief Prosecutor and BOLI Civil Rights Division Director. Her experience includes:

  • Litigating employment discrimination, harassment, whistleblowing and retaliation, leave law, wage and hour, disability and reasonable accommodation cases in an administrative forum
  • Managing and advising on workplace investigations
  • Prevailing wage rate laws

Previously, Cristin was an assistant district attorney at the Lane County District Attorney's Office.

During law school, she was the business editor for the Willamette Law Review.

Focus Areas

Discrimination and HarassmentInvestigationsWage and HourWhistleblowing, Compliance and InvestigationsLeaves of Absence and Disability Accommodation

Recognition

Recipient, Recognition of Achievement

Leadership Oregon – State of Oregon

2019

Recipient, Certificate of Appreciation

U.S. Department of Labor

March 19, 2018

News, Analysis & Press

Untangling the Oregon Leave Quagmire

SHRM

August 7, 2024

Untangling the Oregon Leave Quagmire – Answers to Common Compliance Questions in Light of Recent Legislative Changes

Insight

August 2, 2024

New Guidance Permits Oregon Employers to Rescind Previously Protected Unpaid Family and Medical Leave Effective July 1, 2024

ASAP

May 13, 2024

New Oregon Law (Mostly) Aligns OFLA and Paid Leave Oregon to Prevent Employees from Stacking Leave Benefits

Insight

March 18, 2024

Colorado and Oregon Trigger Protections for Leaves Relating to Respiratory Illnesses

SHRM Online

November 23, 2022

Colorado and Oregon Trigger Protections for Leaves Relating to Non-COVID Respiratory Illnesses

ASAP

November 21, 2022

Rules Governing Oregon’s New Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program and Equivalent Plan Application Process Finalized

Insight

September 14, 2022

Oregon Rule Expands Reasons Employees Can Take Emergency Paid Leave

SHRM Online

April 8, 2022

Oregon Rule Expands Reasons Employees Can Take Emergency Paid Leave

ASAP

April 1, 2022

Speaking Engagements

Case Law Update 2024

BOLI Annual Conference

November 7, 2024

Top 10 Leave Law Compliances Issues: Understanding and Navigating the Complexities of Oregon Leave Laws

Oregon School Personnel Association (OSPA) Fall Summit

October 1, 2024

2024 Pacific Northwest Regional Employer Conference

Portland, OR

September 12, 2024

A Deep Dive Into Oregon's Leave Laws

November 16, 2023

The ABCs of OR-PFMLI: An Overview of Paid Leave Oregon and Employer Equivalent Plans

October 6, 2022

The BOLI Complaint Process – Behind the Scenes

March 31, 2022

Processing a BOLI Employment, Housing, and Public Accommodations Civil Rights Complaint with BOLI

Avakian Mediation & Arbitration, Portland

February 23, 2021

Protecting Victims of Sex Trafficking: An Intersection of Criminal, Civil, and Administrative Litigation

National Crime Victim Law Institute’s 2018 Crime Victim Law Conference, Portland

June 7, 2018

BOLI Contested Case Hearing

BOLI’s 30th Annual Employment Law Conference, Portland

November 7, 2014

Education

  • J.D., Willamette University College of Law, 2007cum laude
  • B.A., University of Portland, 1994

Bar Admission

Oregon