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Christopher L. Gallinari 
Chicago, Illinois
phone (312) 332-3340
fax (312) 332-1190
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Mr. Gallinari, a Principal with the Firm, practices in the areas of complex commercial litigation and transactions, including contract actions, employment matters, securities and commodity futures disputes, and other business disputes. He has successfully represented clients in state and federal trial and appellate courts and in arbitration, mediation and regulatory proceedings before the American Arbitration Association, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, National Futures Association, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Chicago Board of Trade.
 
Mr. Gallinari represents clients involved in a wide variety of business disputes. He participated in the team that won an arbitration award in excess of $2,000,000 on behalf of a trade association executive for breach of contract and defamation rising out of the termination of her employment. Mr. Gallinari has represented brokerage firms and their employees and agents in both industry and customer disputes, customers bringing investment fraud claims against their brokers, groups of farmers asserting claims against their futures commission merchants and grain elevator cooperatives arising out of the promotion and sale of hedge-to-arrive contracts, in one case winning a verdict totaling over $2 million. Representing a class of female university professors in an Equal Pay Act claim, he successfully argued on appeal against the public university's attempt to dismiss the class claims based on a defense of sovereign immunity under the U.S. Constitution.

Mr. Gallinari is a member of the Young Professionals Board of the Better Government Association. He also is a member of the American Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association. As a former speaker on topics concerning information technology law, Mr. Gallinari presented Liability of BBS Operators and On-Line Service Providers for Piracy by Subscribers before the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum and Ease on Down the Electronic Road before the Midwest Computer Show of the Illinois CPA Society and Foundation.

He received his B.A. in economics, magna cum laude, from Drew University in 1987, and his J.D. from New York University in 1990. Prior to joining Bellows and Bellows, P.C., Mr. Gallinari was an associate with the Chicago law firm of Gordon and Glickson and the New York law firm of Sacks Montgomery. Admitted to the Bar in the States of Illinois and New York, Mr. Gallinari is also licensed to practice before numerous U.S. District Courts and Circuit Courts of Appeal throughout the country.

Areas of Practice:
Business Law
Commercial Litigation
Commodities Regulation
Intellectual Property
Investment Fraud
Securities
Bar Admissions:
Illinois
New York
Education:
New York University School of Law, New York, New York, 1990
J.D.


Drew University, 1987
B.A.
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Major:  Economics


Classes/Seminars Taught:
Liability of BBS Operators and On-Line Service Providers for Piracy by Subscribers, Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum


Ease on Down the Electronic Road, Midwest Computer Show of the Illinois CPA Society and Foundation


Professional Associations and Memberships:
Better Government Association


American Bar Association


Chicago Bar Association


Past Employment Positions:
Gordon and Glickson, Associate


Sacks Montgomery, Associate


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Chicago, IL 60604


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Suite 800 209 South LaSalle Chicago, IL 60604