Christina M. Reger, Esq.
Christina M. Reger is the founding partner of the Law Offices of Christina Reger, LLC, a woman-owned firm. Tina handles litigation and counseling matters related to labor and employment for corporate, entrepreneurial and start-up enterprises.
Tina regularly counsels businesses on how to comply with the barrage of new employment laws, regulations, opinions and guidance from federal and state agencies. She prepares executive contracts, independent contractor agreements, non-compete and non-solicitation agreements and severance agreements and conducts employment law audits, including review of employment law policies, analysis of classification of employees and independent contractors, wage and hour issues, and minimum wage compliance. Tina is a regular keynote presenter both regionally and nationally on employment law topics and legal ethics including employee classification, discrimination, and retaliation and she frequently conducts sexual harassment training to organizations of all sizes including proper complaint procedures, complaint handling and most recently COVID-19 issues including the Families First Coronavirus Act, layoffs, furloughs and reopening your business.
Tina also has extensive experience in a variety of employment law litigation matters including business divorces, breach of employment contract disputes, unfair competition, discrimination and harassment, enforcement of restrictive covenants, business divorces and a wide variety of other general commercial litigation matters. She represents employers in both federal and state courts as well as in agency proceedings including the federal and state Departments of Labor, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (PHRC), and state unemployment agencies. Tina also assists clients in business formation including LLC registrations, creation of operating agreements, alternative dispute resolution and litigation involving partnership dissolutions.
In response to the #MeToo movement, Tina developed an interactive training program on sexual harassment and trains employees based upon their experience and understanding. She has published articles in SHRM and the Philadelphia Business Journal and The Legal Intelligencer.
In addition to the sexual harassment training described above, Tina is a regular presenter at seminars on employment law topics and legal ethics for the U.S. Small Business Administration, the National Business Institute, the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Pennsylvania Society of Tax and Accounting, SCORE, local trade organizations, and Chambers of Commerce as well as providing training to corporate clients of all sizes on a variety of employment law issues. She is the President-Elect of the National Association of Women Business Owners, Greater Philadelphia Chapter. This year, Tina was named a Pennsylvania Trailblazer by The Legal Intelligencer. In 2019, Tina received an award by the YWCA Salute to Women Who Make a Difference. She was named an Emerging Leader by the Bucks County Courier Times, The Intelligencer (Doylestown, PA), and the Central Bucks Family YMCA in 2017. In 2016, she was named a Best Attorney in Business in Employment Law by Philly Biz magazine and honored as a Brava Winner by Smart CEO. In 2013, she was named a Rising Star by Pennsylvania SuperLawyers.
Ms. Reger earned her J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law. While attending law school, Ms. Reger was an Articles Editor for the Seton Hall Law Review. She interned for the Honorable Joel Pisano, in the Federal District Court for the District of New Jersey and for the Honorable Virginia A. Long (Ret.) in the New Jersey Supreme Court. After graduating law school, Ms. Reger published the lead article in the Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review entitled, Let's Swap Copyright for Code. The Computer Software Dichotomy.
Christina also received a Master's of Science in Jurisprudence from Seton Hall University School of Law. Her thesis, entitled "Corporate Compliance and Qui Tam Actions; Building a Guardrail Without Destroying the Structure" focused on developing corporate compliance programs in the healthcare arena.
Ms. Reger graduated from Rutgers University as a Paul Robeson Scholar, with Bachelor of Science in Administration of Justice and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.
Admissions
- Pennsylvania, 2003
- New Jersey, 2003
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2007
- U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 2004
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit, 2006
- U.S. Supreme Court, 2012
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 2014