Senior Associate Attorney Kristine Rosales concentrates her practice at LOIS on defending employers and carriers in New York workers’ compensation claims.
Kristine has been practicing workers’ compensation law in New York since 2019. Since joining LOIS, she has received the firm’s Advocacy Award and Impact Award for her unrelenting efforts to defend employers and carriers to the best of her ability. Prior to joining the firm, Kristine represented claimants before the Workers’ Compensation Board.
In June 2024, Kristine earned the designation “Certified Litigation Management Professional (CLMP)” at the Litigation Management Institute hosted at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Kristine started her legal career as a paralegal in 2009, while waiting for the Philippine bar exam results. After passing the bar exam that same year, she was promoted to junior in-house counsel where she handled litigation, contracts, legal and operations advisory. In her first year of law practice, she taught Private International Law (Conflict of Laws) to first year law students for one semester and she also represented a Congressional District Candidate at the 2010 National Elections. A few months later, she served the Philippines’ Department of Justice as a Public Defender. After over three years, she joined the Office of the Special Prosecutor and prosecuted high-ranking public officials before the Anti-Graft Special Court for more than three years.
