Associate, Washington DC
1900 K Street NW
Washington, DC 20006-1108

TEL: 202.496.7212
FAX: 202.496.7756
EMAIL: ccarroll@mckennalong.com

PROFILE

Christina Carroll is an associate in McKenna Long & Aldridge's Washington, DC office. She joined the firm in 2000. 

Christina practices in the area of environmental and toxic tort litigation.  Christina represents regulated businesses and government contractors facing personal injury, property damage, and CERCLA claims arising out of distribution of products or contamination of air or ground and surface water by a wide variety of industrial chemicals.  Christina works on CERCLA actions brought by major corporations against the government for recovery of environmental remediation costs and Administrative Procedure Act cases.

Christina’s cases include mass tort litigation involving class allegations. Christina was a key member of the legal team that recently succeeded in defeating class certification in a case filed by current and former workers alleging silica exposure during the drilling of tunnels at Yucca Mountain, the nation’s proposed repository for spent nuclear fuel.  She also has worked on class actions under state law involving releases to soil and groundwater and products liability claims.  Her experience includes preparation of factual and complex expert testimony, offensive and defensive discovery, mediation statements, and trial and appellate briefs.  Christina has extensive experience with coordinating discovery in cases involving voluminous hard-copy documents and electronic records.

In addition to her environmental and toxic tort practice, Christina also has experience in commercial litigation matters such as contract and employment disputes.  She has prepared factual and expert testimony, written trial and appellate briefs, conducted depositions, as well as successfully presented testimony and appellate oral arguments in state and federal courts in connection with these matters.  Christina has experience with the judicial abstention doctrines and jurisdictional and service of process issues relevant in litigation with foreign governments and other foreign entities.  Christina has prepared extensive briefing of complex issues related to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (“FSIA”), Alien Tort Claims Act (“ATCA”), and the political question doctrine.

Christina received her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, where she concentrated in environmental and international law.  She was the Managing Editor of the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review.  She has authored "Past and Future Legal Framework of the Nile River Basin," 12 Georgetown International Environmental Law Review (1999) and "An Assessment of the Role and Effectiveness of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Rwandan National Justice System in Dealing with the Mass Atrocities of 1994," 18 Boston University International Law Journal 163 (2000).

Christina is a member of the Washington, DC office Associates Committee and is a mentor for law students through the Georgetown University Women of Color Collective.