Christopher D. Warren

Professional Experience

Chris is a business litigator with over a decade of experience representing business owners, investors, and executives in high-stakes disputes across New York and New Jersey state and federal courts, and in arbitration.

As New Jersey Managing Partner and Co-Chair of FRB’s Artificial Intelligence Practice Group, Chris is building the firm’s new Newark office at 3 Gateway Center as a native-AI incubator, a dedicated testing ground for agentic AI tools developed inside an active litigation and transactional practice. Working alongside Co-Managing Partner Moish Peltz, he leads an initiative in which tools proven in Newark are released firm-wide, combining hands-on AI deployment with the governance frameworks he writes and teaches about.

Chris’s practice concentrates on complex commercial disputes, including shareholder and partnership conflicts, business dissolutions, breach of fiduciary duty and accounting claims, and business-to-business contract litigation. He also represents individuals and businesses in securities regulatory matters before the SEC and state Attorneys General.

Chris is an active thought leader on AI governance, data privacy, and legal ethics for the modern practice of law. He serves on the New Jersey Supreme Court District VI Ethics Committee for the 2025 to 2029 term, chairs the Artificial Intelligence Committee of the Hudson County Bar Association, and serves on the New York State Bar Association Committee on Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Data Privacy. He also hosts and publishes Moral Machine, which is now relaunched at frblaw.com/podcast-category/moral-machine/.

Before joining FRB, Chris combined his boutique New York City litigation practice into a mid-sized New Jersey firm, where he served on the firm’s Executive Management Committee and managed the firm’s New York City office. A former licensed securities professional and real estate entrepreneur, Chris brings a pragmatic, business-minded approach to litigation and client counseling. Clients rely on him for direct, practical advocacy, clear strategy, disciplined execution, and business-focused solutions, grounded in close collaboration, cost discipline, and informed risk assessment across court and arbitration forums.