Hammer, Joseph L.

Ms. Russell is a partner in the Commercial Litigation Department and the Reinsurance Practice Group. She has represented business clients in a wide range of complex commercial litigation matters.  Throughout her career, Christine’s practice has been heavily concentrated in the areas of insurance and reinsurance, and is presently focused exclusively in the area of reinsurance.  She has tried in court and/or arbitration a broad array of reinsurance issues on behalf of both cedents and reinsurers.  Christine has arbitrated at least 15 matters through full hearing, has handled innumerable others that were successfully resolved short of that, and is well-known and well-regarded in the reinsurance arbitration arena.  She also regularly counsels clients on reinsurance issues and problems outside of a formal dispute resolution mode.

In the area of other commercial contracts, Ms. Russell has had experience litigating matters concerning large equipment leases, software licensing agreements, shipper-carrier agreements, construction contracts, and telecommunication services agreements, among other types of contracts.

Prior to joining White and Williams, Ms. Russell served as a law clerk to The Honorable Isaiah Steinberg of the Superior Court of New Jersey and to The Honorable Randy J. Holland of the Supreme Court of Delaware.

A magna cum laude graduate of Widener University School of Law in 1995, Ms. Russell was research editor of the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law.  She earned her bachelor of arts degree from Ursinus College in 1990.

Ms. Russell is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.