Christine Eduardo

Christine Eduardo is an Associate in the Firm’s Litigation and Labor & Employment practice groups. She represents entrepreneurs, mid-market businesses, and governmental entities in a broad range of complex litigation matters.

Christine's commercial litigation work includes contract and shareholder disputes, insurance coverage issues, business torts, fraud claims, trade secret disputes, post-covenant employment restrictions, breach of contract issues, and defense under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Christine also defends employers in discrimination and retaliation matters before the EEOC and Illinois Department of Human Rights, harassment under Title VII, wage-and-hour claims, post-restrictive employment covenants, employer counseling and compliance including I-9 compliance, and serves as a Special Assistant Attorney General in eminent domain proceedings. Christine has also assisted in representing automotive franchises with drafting and negotiating financing agreements with banks, lenders, and other financial institutions. Additionally, Christine is committed to pro bono service and has experience in drafting appellate briefs on prisoners’ rights issues before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Prior to joining Burke Warren, Christine served as a legal intern at the U.S. Department of Labor in Chicago. She previously served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Judge Diane Shelley of the Circuit Court of Cook County Law Division. During law school, she was a member of the Moot Court Honors Council and the Vice President of the Asian Pacific American Law School Association. Christine was also an advanced student clinician and research assistant for the UIC Law Veterans Legal Clinic.

• Member, Chicago Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, Filipino American Lawyers Association of Chicago