Christy Hoffman has been active in the labor movement for more than twenty-five years. She began practicing labor law in 1990, representing labor unions at the bargaining table, in federal and state courts and before administrative agencies and legislative bodies. She is currently focused on international legal and organizing strategies.

Ms. Hoffman has served as in-house counsel at the Mineworkers, Teamsters and SEIU, representing these unions in a wide variety of litigation, bargaining and arbitration. For example, she successfully defended the UMWA in a number of secondary boycott cases related to the strike against Pittston Coal, and won a sizable jury verdict on behalf of Mineworkers who were scheduled to lose their jobs when a mine closed. As Associate General Counsel at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, she was lead counsel during the historic 1997 national strike. She later arbitrated UPS’s obligation to create 10,000 full-time jobs, resulting in a record back pay award. At SEIU, she represented health care workers in hospital organizing campaigns, and developed strategies that relied on health care law and legislative campaigns. She joined James & Hoffman in 2001.

Ms. Hoffman received her law degree from New York University School of Law in 1990, Order of the Coif, where she was a Root-Tilden- Snow Scholar and Associate Editor of the Review of Law and Social Change. She received her Bachelors of Arts degree, cum laude, in 1977 from Smith College, with Honors in Economics.

Before receiving her law degree, Ms. Hoffman was a union organizer and representative of the Machinists Union. A member beginning in 1978, she was elected to a number of leadership positions in her Local Union and District, which represented the employees of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in Connecticut, before joining the Union’s staff in 1985.

She is admitted to the bars of New York, Connecticut and District of Columbia and is a member of the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee and the D.C. Bar Association. She is admitted to practice before numerous courts, including the U.S. Courts of Appeals in the First, Fourth, and Sixth Circuits.

Christy.Hoffman@uniglobalunion.org

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