Chris is an experienced litigator with significant trial experience in both state and federal courts in Pennsylvania. Having spent nearly 25 years of his career with Tucker Arensberg, he was appointed by the firm as the Chairman of its Litigation Group in 2023. Chris’ litigation practice focuses on four main areas:
- Commercial litigation: Chris represents businesses in breach of contract claims, disputes arising out of the sale of a business, corporate, and successor liability cases, professional malpractice claims, tortious interference with contractual relations, directors, and officers liability claims, land use dispute and partition actions, and defamation and corporate disparagement claims.
- Utilities: The representation of water, gas, electric, and communications utilities in all manner of litigation, including liability and personal injury defense, property damage recoveries, commercial litigation, land use and rights of way matters, employment disputes, and matters before the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.
- Restrictive Covenants and Trade Secrets: The enforcement of covenants not to compete and other restrictive covenants, theft of trade secret claims, breach of confidentiality agreements, and other claims arising out of the breach of employment agreements by key employees.
- Insurance Coverage Litigation: Chris counsels clients in insurance coverage matters, bad faith claims, and provides general advice to clients through the insurance claim process.
Chris is a 1995 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and a 1990 graduate of The George Washington University. In between his undergraduate studies and law school, Chris worked as a legislative staff member for two mid-western Members of Congress in the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC. A native Pittsburgher, Chris makes his home with his wife in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania.