Chris Williams was one of the founders and the first Director of the Working Hands Legal Clinic (now Raise the Floor Alliance) in Chicago, a non-profit legal clinic that works with a network of community-based worker centers to support workplace justice campaigns and to bring access to legal services for low wage Illinois workers in the area of labor and employment law. While at WHLC, Chris advised the Illinois legislature on legislation designed to protect the rights of the most vulnerable workers, In 2011, Chris left WHLC to start his own practice, Workers’ Law Office, PC. In 2018, Chris co-founded Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers (formerly National Legal Advocacy Network), a national network of worker centers and their legal support addressing workplace abuses in a variety of industries, from temp workers, restaurant workers, warehouse workers and domestic workers. In mid 2023, Chris became the lead employment counsel for the Chicago Workers' Collaborative Working Families Legal Clinic. Chris has been lead counsel or co-counseled in over 450 wage and hour and employment discrimination cases, including 45 class actions. Prior to practicing law, Chris spent over a decade as a union organizer for Chicago area labor unions and was a founding member of a Chicago-based worker center.