Christian Rutherford

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Christian Rutherford (he/him) is an attorney with New York City boutique litigation law firm Holwell Shuster & Goldberg. He is graduate of Brown University, has an M.P.A. in Nonprofit Management from NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law. Christian has over 14 years of experience working on matters in the areas of securities litigation, white-collar defense, government & internal investigations, regulatory enforcement, complex commercial litigation, intellectual property, real estate, bankruptcy and labor & employment, and substantial experience handling the various aspects of litigation, including discovery, legal research, motion practice and trial practice. His pro bono experience includes practice in asylum law in coordination with Immigration Equality resulting in the grant of asylum, withholding of removal or administrative closure for six LGBT clients from the Caribbean.

Prior to attending law school, Christian worked in Nonprofit Development for several NYC institutions, including the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/New York Public Library, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School, Callen-Lorde Community Health Center and Big Brothers/Big Sister of NYC. Prior to joining Holwell Shuster & Goldberg, Christian was an associate with Debevoise & Plimpton, worked as an attorney at Axiom Law and was a staff attorney at Proskauer Rose. He also spent several years working as a Special Assistant Corporation Counsel for the New York City Law Department, Labor and Employment Division. While at Holwell Shuster & Goldberg, Christian has served as a member of the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee and has taken a strong lead in diversity and inclusion efforts with respect to the African-American, Hispanic, First-Generation and LGBTQ affinity groups and programming.