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Chris Fons

Chris Fons

Senior Associate

100 S. Charles Street
Suite 1600
Baltimore, MD 21201
T 443.392.9448
chris.fons@nelsonmullins.com
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*Maryland Bar Admission Pending

Chris is a member of the firm’s Litigation Group. He focuses his practice on a variety of litigation matters with an emphasis on commercial and complex civil litigation. He has experience assisting clients through all phases of litigation, including pre-litigation counseling and investigation, dispositive motions, discovery disputes, depositions, and appeals. These matters have...

Chris is a member of the firm’s Litigation Group. He focuses his practice on a variety of litigation matters with an emphasis on commercial and complex civil litigation. He has experience assisting clients through all phases of litigation, including pre-litigation counseling and investigation, dispositive motions, discovery disputes, depositions, and appeals. These matters have often involved representing clients in the healthcare and financial services industries.

Chris Fons

often involved representing clients in the healthcare and financial services industries.

Experience

The following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate the likelihood of success in any future matter.

Previous Professional Experience 

  • Global law firm, Associate (2022–2025); Summer Associate (May 2019–Aug. 2019)
  • Appellate Division Extern, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of North Carolina (Sept. 2019-Dec. 2019)
The following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate the likelihood of success in any future matter.

Previous Professional Experience 

  • Global law firm, Associate (2022–2025); Summer Associate (May 2019–Aug. 2019)
  • Appellate Division Extern, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of North Carolina (Sept. 2019-Dec. 2019)

Chris is a member of the firm’s Litigation Group. He focuses his practice on a variety of litigation matters with an emphasis on commercial and complex civil litigation. He has experience assisting clients through all phases of litigation, including pre-litigation counseling and investigation, dispositive motions, discovery disputes, depositions, and appeals. These matters have... often involved representing clients in the healthcare and financial services industries.

Experience

The following is a selected sampling of matters and is provided for informational purposes only. Past success does not indicate the likelihood of success in any future matter.

Previous Professional Experience 

  • Global law firm, Associate (2022–2025); Summer Associate (May 2019–Aug. 2019)
  • Appellate Division Extern, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of North Carolina (Sept. 2019-Dec. 2019)

Education

  • Duke University School of Law, JD, cum laude (2020)
    • Order of the Coif
    • Online Editor, Duke Law Journal 
    • Member, Duke Law Innocence Project 
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison, BS, Political Science and Economics, with Distinction (2017)

Admissions

  • Illinois
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Clerkships

  • Law Clerk, The Honorable Theresa Lazar Springmann, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana (2021 - 2022)
  • Law Clerk, The Honorable Paul J. Kelly, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (2020 - 2021)

Practice Areas