Christine Coverdale has significant trial and litigation experience in a large landscape involving media, entertainment, business and intellectual property disputes in the motion picture, music publishing, gaming, advertising, sports, and technology arenas. She brings real-world experience and an analytical perspective that provides her with a unique insight into her clients’ litigation needs and enables her to provide steadfast advocacy, authentic analysis and ethical representation of her clients’ interests. 

As the intellectual property landscape changed Christine’s practice evolved, leading her to branch out into representing partnerships, corporations, and entrepreneurs in a wide variety of complex commercial, business, and real estate litigation, including disputes involving claims for breach of contract, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, regulatory and statutory compliance, unfair competition and business torts, property law, securities fraud, minority shareholder claims and corporate derivative actions.

Prior to joining the firm, Christine expanded her legal acumen in Germany, working in the arena of exports and imports for German corporations and then returned to the United States to continue her extensive litigation and trial experience, at Chapman Glucksman, a litigation firm in California litigating and trying matters in the insurance defense field, arising from claims of negligence, habitability, product liability, premises liability and personal injury litigation.

Christine grew up in New Jersey and earned her B.A. from Rutgers University.  She then decided to travel west to study law and holds her J.D. from Whittier College School of Law in December, 1997.

Christine lives near Joshua Tree with her wife and their dog, Tack (Swedish for “Thank you”). She is an avid sports fan who is still actively pursuing that elusive hole-in-one.

Professional & Civic Involvement

  • Association of Southern California Defense Counsel

Lanugages

  • German

Practice Highlights

Representative Matters

  • Obtained an order sustaining a demurrer without leave to amend in a California state court action alleging multiple intentional tort causes of action, successfully arguing that the claims were barred under California Civil Code Section 47(b) and that the plaintiff lacked standing and capacity to sue a third party.
  • Secured sweeping issue and evidence sanctions against plaintiffs for serious discovery misconduct, eliminating the majority of their claims, and subsequently obtained summary judgment on the sole remaining fraud cause of action, resulting in a complete defense judgment.
  • Achieved dismissal of a plaintiff’s operative complaint as void in a California trial court, resulting in a decisive early-stage defense victory.

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