Christopher Scott D’Angelo

Christopher Scott D'Angelo is a partner in Montgomery McCracken's Litigation Department and Chair of Montgomery McCracken's Product Liability, Toxic Torts and Catastrophic Events Practice Group and of the firm's International Business Practice Group. His practice emphasizes litigation and preventive counseling in the fields of business and business torts, intellectual property, class actions, products liability and construction, including in his role as national counsel for several major U.S. clients and his representation of foreign concerns in the United States and United States concerns abroad, as well as litigation and other matters in the probate courts.

Christopher serves as national counsel for several multinational and domestic companies regarding business and products liability litigation and regional counsel for a multinational insurance company for products liability and other litigation. His representative clients range from Fortune 50 companies to nascent or well-established privately held companies, based in the United States and abroad. The industries in which Christopher has experience range from medical devices and pharmaceuticals, to chemicals, manufacturing and industrial equipment, automotive and other vehicles, railroad equipment, computers, construction (builders, architects and manufacturers of tools, machinery, building systems and building materials), shipbuilding, transportation, robotics and other electronics, amusements and sporting goods, children's products, food and food supplements and consumer and household products.

Christopher is working with the EU Commission and members of the European Parliament with regard to proposals for collective redress in Europe, and has been involved in the reform of Brussels I.

Christopher received his B.A. with distinction, and with Honors in History (1975) and J.D. (1978) from the University of Virginia. As an undergraduate, he was a co-founder of The Declaration, a newsweekly; held several offices in Sigma Phi Society; was on the business staff of The Cavalier Daily; and was a member of The Virginia Players. In law school he served as counsel to the University’s Honor and Judiciary Committees.