Christine Graves is an experienced appellate advocate, regularly handling all aspects of appellate litigation in state and federal courts. Christine concentrates her practice on complex commercial litigation, medical malpractice, personal injury, health care, products liability, constitutional litigation, and insurance coverage issues, including bad faith actions. She has represented large hospitals and other health care providers, corporations, insurance companies, manufacturers, and governmental entities, among others, in all of these areas.
In addition to her traditional appellate work, a large part of Christine's practice involves serving as appellate counsel before and at trial, through which she has logged countless courtroom hours. This work involves attending trial and assisting with general trial strategy, ensuring the record presrved for appeal, and drafting and arguing legal motions case dispositive motions, jury instructions, and post-trial motions.
Christine is board certified in Appellate Practice by The Florida Bar. She has repeatedly been listed in Florida Trend’s Florida Legal Elite and selected for inclusion in Florida Super Lawyers for Appellate Practice. She served as president of the First District Court of Appeal Inn of Court, and served for seven years as an elected member of the Board of Governors of The Young Lawyers Division of The Florida Bar. She is the managing shareholder of Carlton Fields' Tallahassee office.
