Christine Skoczylas is a partner in the Chicago office of Barnes & Thornburg and a member of the firm’s Litigation Department and Co-Chair of the Commercial Litigation Practice Group. She is also a member of the Policyholder Insurance Recovery and Counseling Practice Group. She concentrates her practice on resolving corporate and business disputes and has represented clients in a wide range of state and federal litigation, class action litigation, arbitration, and appellate matters, including breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, and tort actions, products liability cases, environmental contamination cases, and complex contract disputes. Ms. Skoczylas’s clients come from diverse industries nationwide, including hotel, restaurant and hospitality, hair care and cosmetics, petrochemical, and manufacturing. Her recent trial experience includes obtaining a substantial judgment, with punitive damages, for a plaintiff in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
