Chris is a trial lawyer in Reed Smith’s Miami office and a partner in the firm’s top-ranked Insurance Recovery Group.
Experience
Representative matters
Representative matters
Represented a real estate developer in a Virginia performance bond dispute arising from a contractor’s termination and the subsequent completion of work on a project. Achieved resolution with the developer’s insurer and then secured a multi-million-dollar jury trial judgment against a contractor, validating the client’s termination decision.
Representing a Florida-based diversified holding company with ownership of brick-and-mortar and timeshare properties in a $150 million in a Covid-related dispute.
Represented the leading aerospace surface technology finishing company as coverage counsel in connection with its claim for property and equipment damage, business interruption, customer claim liabilities, and pollution cleanup damages arising from a $50 million fire loss to its manufacturing plant.
Represented a real estate developer in a Virginia performance bond dispute arising from a contractor’s termination and the subsequent completion of work on a project. Achieved resolution with the developer’s insurer and then secured a multi-million-dollar jury trial judgment against a contractor, validating the client’s termination decision.
Representing a Florida-based diversified holding company with ownership of brick-and-mortar and timeshare properties in a $150 million in a Covid-related dispute.
Represented the leading aerospace surface technology finishing company as coverage counsel in connection with its claim for property and equipment damage, business interruption, customer claim liabilities, and pollution cleanup damages arising from a $50 million fire loss to its manufacturing plant.
Representing a Florida-based commercial builder as coverage counsel in connection with a wrongful death action stemming from an electrocution death of a worker on the client’s construction site.
Recognitions
- Ranked in Chambers USA for Florida Insurance: Dispute Resolution, 2024-2025
Credentials
Education
Education
- University of Miami School of Law, 2013, J.D., magna cum laude; Order of the Coif, Inter-American Law Review
- Florida State University, 2010, B.S.
Professional admissions & qualifications
Professional admissions & qualifications
- Florida
- Texas
Court admissions
Court admissions
- U.S. District Court - Southern District of Florida
- U.S. District Court - Middle District of Florida
- U.S. District Court - Northern District of Florida
- U.S. Court of Appeals - Eleventh Circuit
Professional affiliations
Professional affiliations
- American Bar Association
- Former Co-Chair, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee, Young Lawyers Division
- Miami-Dade County Bar Association
- American Association for Justice
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