Christopher P. Leritz

Born: St. Louis, Missouri, December 31, 1962

Education: St. Louis University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1985, St. Louis University, J.D., 1990

Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Fire Insurance; Subrogation; Insurance Coverage; Products Liability; Medical Malpractice; Personal Injury; Litigation; Defense and Litigation; Construction Litigation; Real Estate Litigation; Fire and Explosive Litigation; Manufactured Housing Law; Recreational Vehicle Products Liability; Trucking Defense

Membership: The Missouri Bar; The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis.

Admissions: 1990, Missouri

Miscellaneous Information: Recipient, Thomas J. White Foundation Fellowship, 1989. Staff Member, Senate Republican Conference, Washington, D.C., 1985-1986. Assistant to U.S. Senator Christopher S. Bond and Staff Member for U.S. Senate Impeachment Trial Committee for the Impeachment of U.S. District Judge Alcee M. Hastings, 1989. Trial Attorney, Honors Program in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, 1990-1992. Assistant St. Louis Circuit Attorney, 1992-1994.

Biography:

Christopher P. Lertiz focuses his practice in the areas of personal injury, medical malpractice, product liability, commercial litigation, fire insurance, insurance coverage and subrogation.

Mr. Leritz hails from St. Louis, Missouri and has remained in the St. Louis area throughout his legal career. He graduated magna cum laude from St. Louis University with a Bachelors Degree in 1985 and received his Juris Doctor from St. Louis University in 1990. In the same year he was admitted to the Missouri Bar.

Mr. Leritz belongs to the Missouri Bar Association and the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis.

Receiving the highest ranking achievable from Martindale Hubbell, Mr. Leritz has an AV Peer Review Rating and is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.

Other distinctions include the Recipient of the Thomas J. White Foundation Fellowship in 1989 and Staff Member of the Senate Republican Conference in Washington, D.C. from 1985 to 1986. He was the Assistant to the U.S. Senator Christopher S. Bond and Staff Member for the U.S. Senate Impeachment Trial Committee for the Impeachment of U.S. District Judge Alcee M. Hastings in 1989. Mr. Leritz also served as Trial Attorney in the Honors Program in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1990 to 1992. From 1992 to 1994, he served as Assistant St. Louis Circuit Attorney.