Chic can be reached at cwagner@gordonllp.com.

Chic is a seasoned discrimination lawyer who has been advising individuals and organizations in all aspects of employment, public accommodations, and school discrimination law since 1995. Chic is "Of Counsel" to Gordon Law Group, LLP.

Whether acting as counsel for the plaintiff or defendant, or as a third party mediator, Chic is best known for his creativity and success in bringing complicated and highly charged disputes to meaningful and effective resolutions.

Chic has extensive experience bringing law enforcement matters before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD) which often require a broad and creative incorporation of governmental policy considerations that, when done well, offer uniquely equitable solutions the parties could never accomplish in court. Having also built a substantial employer side practice, he brings to the Firm the unique experience of guiding a full range of parties with very different interests through the civil rights law enforcement and statutory conciliation process successfully, and he is highly regarded throughout the bar as one of the foremost practitioners before the Commission.

As a certified mediator, Chic combines all of that very specialized experience and "MCAD know-how" to assist parties and their counsel reach meaningful, well-tailored, and private solutions to what are otherwise very charged and emotionally driven disputes.

Admitted to practice in the state and federal of courts of Massachusetts, as well as the United States Supreme Court, Chic is reported in several seminal decisions governing the applicability of the Massachusetts Fair Employment Practices Act to public employers, extending the statute of limitations under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, re-defining rights to a jury trial under G.L.c. 151B, and broadening the protections against SLAPP law suits.

In October 2002, Boston Magazine named him one of the city’s top five employment attorneys, and he was included among the "Top 100 Massachusetts Super Lawyers" in any area of practice by Law and Politics Magazine in November 2004 and 2005.

Chic grew up in suburban Buffalo, NY; and he is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo and Western New England College School of Law. He served three terms as the male-identified Co-Chair of the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association from 2005-2008, where he helped spearhead the recently renewed movement for transgender equality on a state and federal level. He is a former appointee to the Massachusetts Bar Association House of Delegates and Executive Management Board, and enjoyed a long tenure of bar leadership and service with the MBA Individual Rights & Responsibilities and Labor & Employment Section Councils.

Presently, Chic is involved in a broad array of leadership projects with the Boston Bar Association focusing on diversity bar leadership and advancement of lawyers of difference within the legal community. He was recently appointed to the BBA’s Diversity Inclusion Steering Committee and serves as co-chair of its Education Committee.

He is a frequent continuing legal education faculty member and has co-authored numerous publications pertaining to small firm management, employment law, MCAD practice and procedure, and other anti-discrimination related topics.