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We are a firm with deep and broad experience in representing employees and community members of all backgrounds.
Our team is recognized for employing creative strategies that yield positive outcomes for our clients. We bring to our clients a longstanding commitment to excellence and an unwavering passion to pursue justice on their behalf. Chris has successfully litigated cases in state and federal trial courts, arbitration, and before administrative agencies in Texas and New Mexico. The Firm has secured multi-million-dollar verdicts on numerous occasions for its clients and provides effective representation at both the trial and appellate levels.
From 2013 to 2023, Chris worked alongside Lynn Coyle, a celebrated civil rights attorney in the El Paso region. During this period, Chris and Lynn were known for their collaborative and innovative strategies in support of their clients' objectives. Although Lynn bid farewell to the firm in 2023, Benoit Legal, PLLC continues the same tradition that Lynn and Chris built over the last decade.
Christopher Benoit
Christopher Benoit joined Dominguez & Coyle, PLLC in 2013 after dedicating over a decade to advocating for human and labor rights. Following Francisco Dominguez's election as a district court judge in El Paso, Texas, in January 2015, Dominguez & Coyle transformed into The Law Office of Lynn Coyle, PLLC. In 2022, it evolved further into Coyle & Benoit, PLLC. Since its inception, the firm has been unwaveringly focused on seeking justice for individuals in employment and civil rights.
Through his career, Christopher has worked alongside workers and unions since 2003 and practiced employment, labor, civil rights, and human rights law for the last twelve years. In his years of practice, he has tried numerous cases against government actors for civil rights violations, corporate actors for putting communities in danger, and against employers for violations of state and federal employment rights throughout Texas and New Mexico. He is also known for creative and aggressive litigation strategies to increase corporate and government accountability.
In 2009, Christopher started the Economic Justice Program (EJP) in El Paso, Texas as an attorney with the Texas Civil Rights Project. The EJP supported the organization of hundreds of workers, changes in state and local laws, the recovery of unpaid wages, and the creation of a worker center.
Christopher also worked as a staff attorney at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, Inc. for seven years – proudly representing workers and victims of constitutional violations throughout Texas and New Mexico.
In his early career, Christopher coordinated wage and hour organizing committees at worker centers in Seattle and Denver and supported migrant workers on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border with the Southern Poverty Law Center Immigrant Justice Project, Colorado Legal Services Migrant Farmworker Division, and the Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. Christopher also worked for Proyecto de Derechos Económicos Sociales y Culturales, AC (ProDESC) in Mexico City supporting human rights campaigns throughout the country.
Thomson Reuters Texas Super Lawyers named Christopher a Rising Star from 2017 to 2023 and one of the Top 100 Rising Attorneys in Texas in 2022. He regularly speaks on issues of wage and hour rights, corporate accountability, employment law, and civil rights.
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We are a firm with deep and broad experience in representing employees and community members of all backgrounds.