Christine North

Partner

Christine.North@lewisbrisbois.com

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.

Primary Area(s) of Practice

• Products Liability
• Toxic Tort & Environmental Litigation
• Asbestos Litigation

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

Activities

• Hiking and Travel
• Proud mother of two now adult children, one living in London U.K. and one in NYC