Christina litigates complex matters and class actions before U.S. state and federal courts, with an emphasis on financial services, banking enforcement actions, and consumer protection issues. Christina also represents clients before federal and state regulatory agencies, including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Office of the Comptroller, and state attorneys general. She assists clients in matters relating to consumer protection and unfair and deceptive business practices; bankruptcy litigation and claims issues; forensic accounting issues, including identity theft and wire fraud and credit card fraud; the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act; the Fair Credit Reporting Act; state unfair competition and trade practices laws; data privacy issues; and the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
Christina has extensive experience handling intricate and multilayered class action litigation with parallel regulatory investigations, and has handled all aspects of such cases from inception through class action settlement approval. Christina has conducted numerous internal investigations for financial services companies and counseled clients on compliance issues. Christina has also represented pharmaceutical companies in product liability litigation and an oilfield services company in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill multi-district litigation and trial.
With an active pro bono practice, Christina participated in the Missouri City, Texas, Municipal Court Volunteer Prosecutor Program, where she tried more than 45 cases before a judge or jury. She also successfully appealed the denial of benefits for a World War II veteran before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, helped draft a clemency petition to President Obama for a nonviolent drug offender faced with a life sentence and successfully argued a motion to vacate the life sentence, and represented a juvenile in a criminal resentencing who had originally been sentenced to an unconstitutional mandatory life term in 1999.
