Christine S. Tenley

Christine Tenley is a partner in the Atlanta office of Lewis Brisbois. Christine thrives on strategizing and successfully resolving difficult and costly premises liability and workplace challenges. She is determined in accomplishing her clients goals and diffusing disputes quickly and efficiently. Christine is highly skilled at effectively engaging opposing counsel, judges, juries, and witnesses to elicit her clients desired results. As a partner to her clients businesses, she is always available when they need guidance or have an emergency. Christine is fully vested in her matters until they are successfully resolved and ensures she stays directly involved in every aspect of her clients matters to ensure the highest quality of service is delivered. With more than 23 years of national litigation, trial, class and collective action, and appellate experience, Christine has extensive experience in single family, multifamily, and commercial property premises liability matters, including defense of personal injury and property damage claims as well as negligent security and negligent supervision claims, landlord-tenant compliance including code enforcement violations, Florida Building Code compliance, fair housing complaints, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services claims, land use issues, risk management and litigation involving evictions/squatters and squatter prevention, HOA compliance and HOA litigation, representing property management companies in drafting HOA bylaws and covenants, contract review, and lease review. Christine also manages complex commercial and employment litigation matters for clients on a national and regional level. She frequently practices in the residential and commercial property ownership and management, retail, health care, financial services, and education industries. Christine has handled employment and commercial litigation matters in states with some of the most complex regulatory frameworks, including Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin. Christine has first-chaired complex investigations and administrative proceedings in front of federal and state government agencies, including the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Department of Labor (DOL), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and correlating state agencies. In the traditional labor arena, Christine has successfully defeated multiple union organization efforts to organize LPN nurses at nursing home facilities before the NLRB and the federal appellate courts. Christine is well versed in assisting clients in navigating COVID-19 and the viruss impact on the workplace, including developing mandatory and optional vaccination policies and best practices for leave issues. Christine also has specialized experience in navigating post-eviction moratorium issues for residential landlords, including best practices to implement in returning to nationwide evictions, removing squatters and identity theft trespassers from residential property, determining whether or not to accept federal and state rental assistance, and streamlining tenant removal once possession of the property is returned to the owner. Christine is an avid tennis player and a tennis fan who travels to professional tournaments to watch her favorite players as her schedule permits. She regularly volunteers with North Fulton Community Charities and Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers.