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A partner of Seeger Weiss, Chris is a highly skilled and experienced trial attorney representing individual and corporate plaintiffs in state and federal courts throughout the country. Chris’s practice focuses on class action, mass tort, and complex commercial litigation involving consumer protection, investment fraud, antitrust, qui tam/whistleblower, product liability, and pharmaceutical injury. He is widely recognized for his knowledge and experience in e-discovery and preservation of electronically stored information (ESI) and has served as designated ESI counsel for plaintiffs in numerous cases. Chris has served on the leadership team in major multidistrict litigations and class actions. His recent work includes:- In the Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation and the related California Judicial Council Coordination Proceeding, Chris serves as member of the Plaintiffs Executive Committee and Co-Chair of the E-Discovery Committee. Both litigations involve cases against social media companies alleging they are responsible for designing social media platforms that target kids but are not safe for them to use. Affected children and families have filed wrongful death and other lawsuits for teen suicides and mental harm related to use of these products.- Chris represents the Estate of Henrietta Lacks and members of her family seeking justice against pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies for unjustly profiting off Mrs. Lacks's stolen cells. For what would have been Henrietta Lacks' 103rd birthday, Henrietta Lacks's family secured an historic settlement with the biotechnology company they sued seeking compensation for its use of Mrs. Lacks’s cells.- Chris served on the leadership team in the Mercedes Emissions litigation, In re Mercedes-Benz Emissions Litigation, which secured a $800 million settlement on behalf of U.S. owners and lessees. He was charged with leading discovery and successfully secured one of the strongest ESI validation procedures and random sampling protocols to test the defendants’ search methodologies and results.Chris was a four-year varsity athlete on Brown University’s wrestling team. While attending University of San Diego School of Law, Chris received the CALI Award for Advanced Trial Advocacy and the Virginia C. Nelson Graduate Prize in Advanced Advocacy.

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