Christian Zust leads Quarles' Pricing and Practice Economics functions. He helps the firm's attorneys and their clients use technology, processes and data analytics to improve the delivery and client experience of legal services while lowering its cost. Through his work, Christian focuses on:

• Overseeing the firm's pricing and matter budgeting functions.
• Improving the delivery and client experience of the firm's legal services, including successfully working with client legal operation and procurement groups to improve client outcomes.
• Ensuring the firm's attorneys are better positioned to provide counsel that fully understands the challenges companies experience in legal operations and how to respond to those client needs more effectively, whether that entails different pricing and service models, dashboards that quantify trends and drive insights into preventive law opportunities, or a combination of tools and legal service better designed to meet their needs.
• Guiding clients on operationalizing areas such as contract management, portfolio litigation, real estate asset management, acquisition and divestitures, regulatory advice and matter management.

Bar Admissions

• Missouri

Education

• Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Certificate, Quarles & Brady Leadership Program (2025)

• University of Missouri (M.B.A., 2008)

• University of Missouri (2007)

• University of Missouri (2004)
  • Management, Economics

• Leveraging AI: Creating Efficiency and Effectiveness in Legal Departments While Managing Risk

Seminar

• Leveraging AI: Creating Efficiency and Effectiveness in Legal Departments While Managing Risk