Christine Cossler focuses her practice on public and private sector labor and employment law and on education law. Christine has represented private and public sector employers in litigating a wide range of employment-related matters, including defending companies against discrimination, harassment and wrongful discharge allegations, breach of contract actions, ERISA claims, non-compete and non-disclosure issues and various tort causes of action including intentional tort claims. Similarly, she has defended clients' interests at administrative proceedings before the State Employment Relations Board, the Unemployment Compensation Review Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Ohio Civil Rights Commission. Building off of this experience, Christine regularly counsels both public and private sector clients on employment-related matters, including litigation risk management, and provides training in a variety of areas, including harassment prevention, employee privacy and technology concerns in the workplace. In addition to employment litigation and counseling, Christine has successfully represented clients' interests in the arbitration of claims brought by employees and unions and has prosecuted and defended unfair labor practice charges with SERB and the NLRB. Christine also has extensive experience in education law, including special education disputes, and has provided general counsel to various boards of education throughout Northeast Ohio. Christine's diverse school law experience includes defending against a parents' challenge in the United States Supreme Court to a student's special education program, counseling school districts on special education issues, prosecuting student discipline issues, defending against a coach's claims of defamation and defending against a public records challenge. An accomplished speaker, Christine is a lecturer and trainer on education issues and employment issues, such as hiring, disciplining and firing, and sexual harassment. She is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where she graduated as class valedictorian, summa cum laude.  Additionally, she is a member of the Cleveland Employment Law Inns of Court.  Christine was also a Law Clerk to the Honorable James S. Gwin, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio.