Attorney
Washington, District of Columbia, 20006
Chris has tried over fifty cases to verdict (25 jury trials), including five in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, authored over twenty-five appellate briefs in the D.C. Circuit, the Second Circuit, and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and participated in over seventy criminal and civil evidentiary hearings in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the Southern District of New York, the Southern District of Florida, and the District of Columbia Superior Court. Chris has over ten years of experience as an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the Southern District of Florida, where he was both a federal prosecutor, trying both violent crimes and large scale multi-defendant conspiracy cases, and a civil attorney representing the United States in all aspects of defensive and affirmative civil litigation. Prior to joining the Department of Justice, Chris was in private practice in New York and Washington, D.C. at White & Case LLP, where he represented individuals and corporations in a variety of civil and white-collar matters including internal investigations. Chris’ work has resulted in numerous published decisions and news articles.
Chris graduated from the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law in December 2003 and was the recipient of the Judge John W. Calhoun Award for Trial Advocacy. While in law school, he was on the trial team and participated in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Appellate Clinic.
