Mr. Christopher Williams, JD
Co-Director
National Legal Advocacy Network
Chris was one of the founders and the first Director of the Working Hands Legal Clinic (now the Raise the Floor Alliance) in Chicago, a non-profit legal clinic that worked with a network of community-based worker centers to support workplace justice campaigns and to bring access to legal services for low wage Illinois workers in the area of labor and employment law. While Director, Chris advised the Illinois legislature on a number of pieces of legislation designed to protect the rights of Illinois’ most vulnerable workers, from the Illinois Day and Temporary Labor Services Act to the Illinois Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act, creating protections against abuse of the E-Verify system. In 2011, Chris left WHLC to start his own practice, Workers’ Law Office, PC, and now works with a national network of worker centers addressing workplace abuses in a variety of industries, from temp workers, restaurant workers, warehouse workers and domestic workers. Chris has been lead counsel or co-counseled in over 400 wage and hour and employment discrimination cases, including 45 class actions. Prior to practicing law, Chris spent over a decade as a union organizer for Chicago area labor unions and was a founding member of a Chicago-based worker center.
