- J.D., Franklin Pierce Law Center, 1978
- B.A., University of Pennsylvania, cum laude, 1975
- California
- New Hampshire
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- U.S. District Court for New Hampshire
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
- U.S. District Court for Central District of California
- New Hampshire Bar Association
- Bar Association of San Francisco
- San Mateo County Bar Association
- Defense Research Institute
- Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada.
- Representative, New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1980 - 1982
CHRISTOPHER W. WOOD
Partner, San Francisco
101 California Street
Floor 41
San Francisco, CA 94111
TEL: 415.267.4140
FAX: 415.267.4198
EMAIL: cwood@mckennalong.com
PROFILE
Christopher W. Wood has extensive experience in mass tort and multi-party litigation. Chris is devoted to providing advice and representation to clients on toxic, product liability, tort and trial issues throughout California. Chris’ practice includes the litigation of toxic agents causing cancers and other injuries, such as asbestos, silica, mold, chemicals, and adulterated food and dietary supplements.
Chris’ trial experience includes claims arising from exposures to asbestos, formaldehyde, solvents and commercial contracts. Recent trials include defense verdicts for auto manufacturers, products, premises and contractor clients in asbestos injury claims.
In addition, Chris has experience reported in published and unpublished appellate decisions including prevailing counsel in Hunter v. Pacific Mechanical Corp. (1995) 37 Cal.App. 1282, establishing California’s summary judgment standard for the burden of proof of defendants in toxic exposure cases and Setiff v. E.I. DuPont et al. (1995) 32 Cal.App. 4th 1164, foreclosing suit where a party cannot plead the identity of chemical causing injury. Just out of law school, Chris successfully defended the due process rights of anti-nuclear protesters in a suit by the man who later became Governor of New Hampshire and President George H. W. Bush’s Chief of Staff, John Sununu in, Sununu v. Clamshell Alliance, et al., 122 N.H. 668, 448 A.2d 431 (1982).
Chris serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada (“ADC”). He has served as chair of the ADC Toxic Tort Committee (2004-2007). He has chaired and spoken at ADC seminars on toxic litigation and litigation involving clients in bankruptcy. He has spoken on a panel at the Defense Research Institute on premises liability for toxic exposure.
Chris graduated cum laude from the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He studied law at New Hampshire’s Franklin Pierce Law Center and began his legal career as a litigator in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was elected to and served a term in the New Hampshire House of Representative for Portsmouth, NH (1980-82).