Christopher S. Porrino is Vice Chair of the firm's Litigation Department. He concentrates his practice in complex business litigation and white collar criminal defense. Mr. Porrino is listed in the 2007 and 2008 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, which recognized him as an "absolutely top notch litigator" for his "instincts" and ability to "get matters resolved quickly" and a "goal-oriented yet realistic" litigator who "invariably makes the right choices." Mr. Porrino was also previously recognized in the 2006 edition of Chambers USA as a "rising star for complex commercial and criminal cases."

Mr. Porrino represents corporate and individual clients in complex civil business disputes and in white collar criminal matters involving real estate issues, insurance fraud, bank fraud, securities fraud, tax fraud, antitrust and political corruption. He also regularly defends lawyers, accountants, physicians, pharmacists and scientists in criminal and professional disciplinary matters. In addition, Mr. Porrino has conducted numerous internal investigations for businesses faced with allegations of wrongdoing or suspected wrongdoing by insiders.

In recent years, he successfully defended a Fortune 500 company in the criminal investigation being conducted by the Enron Task Force in Houston, Texas. He also successfully defended a bank alleged to have participated in a money laundering scheme, several public corporations alleged to have committed securities fraud, numerous corporate officers and directors charged with or alleged to have participated in securities fraud and/or accounting fraud, attorneys charged with tax fraud, a client charged with identity theft and a person wrongfully accused of masterminding an international child smuggling ring.

Following graduation from law school, Mr. Porrino served as a federal law clerk to the Honorable Freda L. Wolfson, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, where he was involved in complex federal litigation.

Mr. Porrino presently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Trial Attorneys of New Jersey. He continues to serve as a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court’s Committee on Model Civil Jury Charges for the 2006-2008 term, having been reappointed after serving the Committee as a member for the 2004-2006 term. Mr. Porrino is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Summit Speech School, a non-profit educational institution which serves deaf and hard of hearing children.

	Pay-to-Play Deadline Nears New Jersey Law Journal, September 24, 2007 Christopher Porrino, Michael Long
	Pay to Play Deadline: Many Businesses With New Jersey Government Contracts Must File Disclosure Statements By September 28, 2007 Lowenstein Sandler PC Client Alert, September 2007 Christopher Porrino, Michael Long
	Lessons From the Anderson Debacle The Middlesex Advocate, Volume 17, Number 2, October 2002 Michael Himmel, Christopher Porrino

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