Christie Webb is the principal attorney for the Law Office of Christie E. Webb. She personally handles your case and, in appropriate circumstances, partners with other attorneys on select cases that require a team approach. The Firm’s motto, “Big City Law Firm With A Small Town Feel,” reflects her upbringing in a small New Hampshire community and her understanding that knowing her client’s personal circumstances and background are as important as knowing the facts and law of the specific case. She will represent your case with the highest standards of integrity and competence and work tirelessly to seek justice in a timely manner.
Ms. Webb is a member of the California and the Massachusetts State Bars. She is licensed to practice in the state courts of California and Massachusetts, and in the federal U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, U.S. District Court for Massachusetts, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th and 11th Circuits.
Ms. Webb graduated from Wellesley College with Honors, and received her J.D. from Boston University School of Law. For over thirty years, she has represented individuals in employment law (e.g., wrongful termination, FEHA violations, wage and hour), civil rights, serious personal injury, medical malpractice as well as in a variety of business and contract disputes. She has also been associated with lead counsel in several large class actions yielding settlements in the millions of dollars. She has negotiated severance agreements and contracts in the employment and entertainment law areas.
While continuing to practice employment law in the trial court, Ms. Webb has built a broad civil appellate practice. Ms. Webb now devotes a significant portion of her time to appeals in the substantive areas of employment law/wrongful termination, wage and hour law, personal injury litigation, civil rights and to seeking relief from other adverse outcomes in the trial court. Ms. Webb has also done many petitions for writs of habeas corpus for wrongly incarcerated prison inmates seeking to reverse their convictions and for inmates seeking to enforce the laws providing for parole. Ms. Webb is Certified by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization as a Certified Specialist in Appellate Law.
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On a pro bono basis, Ms. Webb has represented criminal defendants in petitions for writs of habeas corpus in state and federal courts. See, e.g., Jacobs v. Singletary ,952 F.2d 1282 (11th Cir. 1992) (life term criminal conviction overturned on grounds of Brady violation and claim of innocence); In re Van Houten, 116 Cal.App.4th 339 (2004) (successfully petitioned for writ of habeas corpus and the trial court directed parole board to revisit its decision denying parole, although order was later reversed by the Court of Appeal). Ms. Webb still represents Leslie Van Houten in connection with her applications for parole.
Ms. Webb is proud of her continued pro bono work for people who are treated unjustly or wrongly incarcerated by the criminal justice system.
Ms. Webb combined her legal work with film production on the ABC television movie-of-the-week, In the Blink of An Eye, the story of Sonia Jacobs, a woman wrongfully convicted of murder. (See Jacobs v. Singletary, cited above.) On behalf of the production, Ms. Webb negotiated defamation/privacy rights clearances with ABC’s Broadcast Standards & Practices.
Most recently, Ms. Webb co-produced Neshoba: The Price of Freedom, a multiple award- winning documentary feature about long-delayed justice in the civil rights era murders of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner by the KKK in 1964 Mississippi.
Ms. Webb received an Emmy as Associate Producer for the award-winning documentary Too Little, Too Late. Currently, she is producing a documentary feature, The Legacy: From Gary Graham to Shaka Sankofa, the story of three generations of an African American family trapped by poverty and the criminal justice system, struggling to break the cycle and make a better future for the current generation.