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Christine O. Boyd

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Philadelphia
1717 Arch Street
Suite 3710
Philadelphia, PA 19103

P (215) 351-7908

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practice areas

Asbestos
Product Liability
Toxic and Mass Tort Litigation

Christine Boyd has over 40 years’ experience defending complex negligence, toxic tort and product liability lawsuits. She has a national reputation, and has tried jury trials in state and federal courts in PA and NY for auto manufacturers, elevator companies, hand tool and equipment manufacturers and others. She serves as National Coordinating Counsel for a major telecommunications company, managing thousands of cases across the country.

Christine is very involved on a national level with the American Board of Trial Advocates, having served as Eastern PA Chapter president, national treasurer (2020-2021) and is currently on the national board and is an elected Trustee to the ABOTA Foundation. In addition to her outstanding professional reputation, she is also well known for her commitment to teaching civics to school age children through ABOTA and the Rendell Center, mentoring young women lawyers, and speaking on substantive and ethics issues around the US and abroad.

Education

Villanova University School of Law (J.D.)

Lafayette College (B.A., cum laude)

Awards & Recognitions
  • Martindale-Hubbell Rating of AV Preeminent for 30 years
  • PA Super Lawyer for more than 10 years
  • America’s Top 100 Attorneys Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Top 100 Civil Defense Litigators
  • Elite Lawyers
  • Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America
  • Women Leaders in the Law
  • ABOTA Foundation National Civics Education Award 2022
Professional Activities

Member of IADC and FDCC, invitation only defenseorganizations

Member of ABOTA (American Board of Trial Advocates. Invitation only plaintiff and defense trial lawyers) since 2006

Former president, Eastern PA Chapter of ABOTA

National Board Representative to ABOTA from Eastern PA Chapter since 2013

Co-Chair of multiple ABOTA National Committees including
Long Range Planning, Diversity of Membership and others

Elected ABOTA National Treasurer 2020, 2021

Elected ABOTA National Foundation Trustee 2024-2026

Speaking Engagements

Presented at multiple live and virtual CLE programs in ethics and trial practice at DRI, ABA and others, including:

Moderator of ABOTA National Webinar: Jury Trials in the Age of Pandemic-Understanding Jurors’ Psyche (2020)

Moderator of Eastern PA ABOTA Webinar: Best Practices for Women Lawyers (2021)

Speaker at joint ABOTA and Italian Bar Association, Milan Italy:

Case Framing in the American Adversarial Justice System (2021)

Faculty at ABOTA National Trial College at Yale University (2022)

Panelist at ABA TIPs/YLD Conference: Trial Masters (2023)

Speaker at ABOTA National Webinar: Strategies for Putting on a Defense Case (2023)

Co-Chair and Moderator of ABOTA National Civics Summit, and Teachers’ Law School, Washington DC (2024)

Speaker at joint ABOTA and German American Bar Association, Frankfurt Germany: American Case Framing (2024)

Faculty at Central High School Moot Supreme Court, Third Circuit Court of Appeals (2024)

Speaker at multiple joint Civics Education Programs with ABOTA and the Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Engagement, including reading age-appropriate books regarding civics to K through 8th grade, and preparing classes for mock trials

Representative Experience

Prosecutor, tried major felony jury trials including rape, robbery, arson and homicide (5 years)

Tried dozens of product liability, negligence and toxic tort jury trials in federal and state courts in Pennsylvania and in state court in New York

National coordinating and trial counsel for a major telecommunications company in asbestos litigation, managing a docket of thousands of cases across the nation (21 years)

Represented a major elevator company across Pennsylvania

Developed national expert witnesses in toxic tort cases for major automotive clients in the areas of epidemiology, industrial hygiene and risk assessment

practice areas

Asbestos
Product Liability
Toxic and Mass Tort Litigation

Admissions

Pennsylvania
Third Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania