Christine M. North has over 30 years of successful trial experience in the defense of asbestos personal injury and wrongful death claims and product and premises liability claims in general.  Ms. North gained her initial trial experience as a criminal prosecutor with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, in the 1988–1993 time period, where she tried over 48 cases to verdict, ultimately focusing on large conspiracy cases. Ms. North has tried several consolidated toxic tort trials, as well as multiple individual product and premises liability cases, in California and across the United States from Texas to Philadelphia to New England with consistently successful results. She has tried over 28 asbestos personal injury and wrongful death cases to verdict since 1994.

Ms. North has expertise in mass tort litigation management and serves on the team for National and Strategic Counsel for her Firm’s clients. Ms. North has in the past spoken at national asbestos ligation seminars with special reference to medical and scientific expert work up, trial testimony, and trial strategy.    

As a partner, Ms. North splits her time between the New England and Los Angeles offices, and wherever client trials are starting around the country.

Activities

Admissions

• State Bar Admissions
  • California
  • Connecticut
  • Massachusetts
• State Appellate Courts
  • California Courts of Appeal
• United States District Courts
  • United States District Court for the Central District of California
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of California
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of California
  • United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
  • United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• United States Courts of Appeals
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Associations

Defense Research Institute

Education

University of Notre Dame Law School

Juris Doctor, 1985

Concannon Program of International Law

One year of study, London, U.K.

Georgetown University

B.S.F.S, cum laude, Foreign Service, 1982, Language Proficiencies in French and Spanish