Biography
For more than 18 years, Christina Phillips has dedicated her practice to representing plaintiffs in insurance recovery and related litigation. Christina has represented policyholders in insurance disputes involving coverage matters, property, business income, lost rents, and bad faith disputes throughout the country. Her practice has included representing a wide range of insureds including single family homeowners, condominiums, and corporate entities in claims involving hail, wind, hurricanes, fire, flood, and collapse. She has also successfully represented clients in broker negligence actions.
Christina prides herself on being involved in all aspects of litigation from inception through trial and/or alternative dispute resolution, including binding arbitration. She has obtained favorable rulings for her clients in more than 30 separate binding arbitrations. Christina is very active with the American Bar Association. In addition to her current involvement with the Property Insurance Law Committee, she served as the Chair of the TIPS Property Insurance Law Committee (2016-2017), was appointed as a Member of the Women Trial Lawyers Task Force (2017-2018) and served as a Vice-Chair for the Property Insurance Law Committee (2011-2016).
Christina was selected as a Super Lawyers Rising Star from 2012-2020 and selected to Super Lawyers for 2022-2024. She was also named as one of the Top Women Attorneys in Illinois by Chicago Magazine in October 2013.
Awards
- 2022-2023, Illinois Super Lawyers
- 2012–2020, Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Star
- 2014, Top Women Attorneys in Illinois
- 2013, Top Women Attorneys in Illinois
- 2011, Monique Raynaud-Contamine Prize
Associations
- American Bar Association TIPS Property Insurance Law General Committee
Education
University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
Chicago, Illinois
Juris Doctor
Saint Mary’s College
Notre Dame, Indiana
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science and Psychology