Chris joined Clyde & Co as a partner in 2006, and is resident in the firm's New York office. For more than twenty years he has focused his practice on the trial, litigation, and arbitration of a wide variety of matters involving products liability, international trade and shipping, insurance, aviation, and general commercial disputes.
Chris began his legal career as a Captain/Senior Trial Counsel in the United States Marine Corps where he tried numerous criminal cases and administrative discharge proceedings. He also spent three years as a Senior Litigation Counsel with The Coca-Cola Company where he actively litigated cases and supervised outside counsel in a number of significant tort, securities, intellectual property, and commercial matters, including class action litigation. Prior to joining Clyde & Co, Chris was a partner in a national U.S. law firm where he handled complex and multidistrict tort litigation.
Chris is admitted to practice law in the States of New York, Indiana, Georgia and Pennsylvania, as well as various federal district courts and circuit courts of appeal throughout the United States. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1980, and from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 1983.