While attending Notre Dame Law School, Chris was twice Notre Dame's appellate moot court champion. Chris earned Notre Dame's Kirby Award for excellence in oral advocacy and also received the Weber Award for brief writing. As a member of the Notre Dame Law Review, Chris served as the Production Editor. He published an article entitled A Whole Lot of Nothing Going On: The Civil Rights "Remedy" of the Violence Against Women Act, 75 NOTRE DAME L.R. 797 (1999), in the Law Review during his third year of law school. Chris also served as a coach for the Notre Dame undergraduate mock trial team. Before joining Bordas & Bordas, Chris worked as a summer law clerk for the Honorable Judge Michael A. Telesca in the Western District of New York and with White & Case, LLP in New York City.
Chris received his bachelor's degree in Philosophy from Notre Dame in 1997. Offered Appointment to the United States Naval Academy in 1993, Chris elected to perform his military service in the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps at Notre Dame. He served for four years as a midshipman, including brief sea tours aboard the USS Port Royal (CG-73) and the USS John Hancock (DD-981). Click here to see Chris at sea aboard the Port Royal, with the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the background.
Chris is a 1993 graduate of Bishop Kearney High School in Rochester, New York. In high school, Chris was the 1993 Catholic National Champion in debate. He was the 1992 and 1993 New York State Champion. Chris was selected to serve as captain of the United States National Debate Team in 1993. Chris was then invited to travel abroad to lecture Israeli students in Tel Aviv, Israel, in the summer of 1993. He continued to educate foreign students in debate in 1994 when he traveled to Scotland to lecture and perform in exhibitions.
Chris is licensed to practice law in West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania, as well as before the federal courts in all three states, the Supreme Court of the United States of America and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He belongs to the West Virginia State Bar Association, the Ohio Association for Justice, the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, and the West Virginia Association for Justice.
