Christopher Hall

christopher.hall@lw.com

+1.202.521.5989

Profile

Christopher Hall* is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Litigation & Trial Department.

Christopher primarily handles complex commercial litigation and trial work and has represented clients in state and federal courts at the trial and appellate level, as well as in arbitrations, in jurisdictions around the country.

Before starting at Latham & Watkins, Christopher was a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Raymond W. Gruender of the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He earned his JD from Harvard Law School, where he served as Executive Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. He earned his BA, cum laude, from Washington University in St. Louis.

*Admitted to practice in New York only. All work supervised by a member of the DC Bar.

Experience

Christopher’s experience includes representation of:

CoStar Group, an international commercial real estate data firm, in federal court litigation in Los Angeles against Commercial Real Estate Exchange, Inc. (CREXi), a major CoStar competitor valued at half a billion dollars and backed by multiple venture capital funds, involving claims for copyright infringement and violations of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act
Paramount Global in the Eastern District of Missouri in indemnification and jurisdictional litigation arising out of Monsanto's manufacture of polychlorinated biphenyls*
One of the world’s largest pension funds in New York Supreme Court Commercial Division in financial litigation arising out of a liability management exercise *
Shareholders in a closely-held corporation in a derivative suit brought against a fellow shareholder*
American Securities in the Delaware Court of Chancery in stockholder litigation relating to American Securities’ acquisition of Foundation Building Materials*
Brookfield Asset Management in the Delaware Court of Chancery in stockholder litigation arising out of Brookfield's acquisition of Terraform Power*
AMC Entertainment in the Delaware Court of Chancery in stockholder litigation arising out of AMC’s issuance of AMC Preferred Equity Units*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

Qualifications

Bar Qualification

District of Columbia
New York

Education

JD, Harvard Law School, 2022
Executive Editor, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy
BA in Political Science & Art History & Archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis, 2018
cum laude