Biography
Celine J. Chan is a partner in Weil’s Employment Practice Group. She represents employers in a variety of different industries in all aspects of their labor and employment matters, including disputes in federal and state court and in arbitrations involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, restrictive covenant matters, and wage and hour issues. She also represents clients before federal, state and local administrative agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, New York State Division of Human Rights and the New York City Commission on Human Rights.
Celine has experience conducting internal investigations for companies regarding their most sensitive and significant employment matters, and has extensive experience counseling employers on issues pertaining to executive hiring, separation and performance issues, restrictive covenant agreements, reductions in force, and wage and hour issues, as well as performing employment-related due diligence in the context of corporate transactions. She is recognized by Legal 500 as a “Recommended” Lawyer for Labor and Employment Disputes.
Celine maintains an active pro bono practice, where she has provided employment-related counseling to a variety of non-profit corporations, including the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, the Central Park Conservancy, the New York Police & Fire Widows’ and Children’s Benefit Fund, and the United Way.
Prior to joining Weil, Celine worked as a Special Assistant Corporation Counsel at the New York City Law Department, where she represented the City of New York and its agencies in federal and state actions involving challenges to the city’s employment practices, and allegations of constitutional and statutory violations.
Celine received her B.A. from Cornell University in 2007, and her J.D., magna cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School in 2010. During law school, Celine was an associate managing editor of the Brooklyn Law Review and served on the Executive Board of the Moot Court Honor Society. Celine was also a summer intern to Magistrate Judge Michael H. Dolinger in the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York in 2008.