Chris Stipes is an associate practicing construction defect litigation out of Kring & Chung, LLP's Sacramento office. Mr. Stipes was born and raised in New York, and earned his bachelor's degree in English from the University at Albany in 2004. Mr. Stipes moved to Sacramento in 2007 to attend McGeorge School of Law, and earned his J.D. in 2010. He graduated as a member of the Roger J. Traynor Honor Society, and was an editor on the McGeorge Law Review during his time there. While with the Law Review, Mr. Stipes published a short article, Heard it Through the Grapevine: Chapter 28 Saves California Wine Competitions from Prohibition-Era Law, 40 MCGEORGE L. REV. 303 (2009). Mr. Stipes also studied Fundamental Rights in Europe and America under Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy in Salzburg, Austria. Mr. Stipes joined Kring & Chung, LLP in June, 2011.