Professional Experience: 

Christopher Scott D'Angelo is a partner in the Litigation Department at Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP and is Chairman of its Products Liability & Mass Torts Section and Vice Chairman of its Sports, Entertainment & Amusements Law Practice.  His practice emphasizes litigation and preventive counseling in the fields of business and business torts, intellectual property, class actions, and products liability, including in his role as national counsel for several major U.S. clients and his representation of foreign concerns in the United States and United States concerns abroad, as well as litigation and other matters in the probate courts.

Mr. D'Angelo serves as national counsel for several multinational or domestic companies regarding business and products liability litigation and regional counsel for a multinational insurance company for products liability and other litigation.  His representative clients range from Fortune 50 companies to nascent or well-established privately held companies, based in the United States and abroad.  The industries in which Mr. D'Angelo has experience range from pharmaceuticals and medical devices, to chemicals, manufacturing and industrial equipment, automotive and other vehicles, railroad equipment, computers, construction (builders, architects and manufacturers of tools, machinery, building systems, and building materials), robotics and other electronics, amusements and sporting goods, children's products, and consumer and household products.

Mr. D'Angelo is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, and Who's Who in the World, and in The International Who's Who of Commercial Lawyers, and The International Who's Who of Product Liability Lawyers, and in Pennsylvania Super Lawyers.

Professional and Community Associations:

Mr. D'Angelo is a member of The American Law Institute, and participated extensively in the creation of the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Products Liability, which was adopted in May, 1997 and of the Restatement of Apportionment, which was adopted in May, 2000.  Mr. D'Angelo is also a member of the ALI's Members Consultative Groups on the Restatement of Torts: General Principles; Restatement of Torts: Liability for Economic Loss; Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes; Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation; Principles of the Law of Software Contracts and Restatement of Trusts, and on Article 2 (Sales) of the Uniform Commercial Code.

Mr. D'Angelo is also a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel (where he has served on the Faculty of its Corporate Counsel College and its International Corporate Counsel College, recently served on its Board of Directors, has served as Chairman of its Business Litigation Committee, Vice Chairman of its International Committee, and as a member of the Faculty of its Trial Academy), the Product Liability Advisory Council (where he served on its Executive Committee and currently serves on its Bylaws Committee), the Defense Research Institute (where he served on the Steering Committee for the Second and Third Joint International Conferences and as Co-Chairman of its European Corporate Outreach Committee), the International Bar Association, the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel (where he serves on its Corporate Counsel Symposium), and the Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel.  He is a member of the American, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations.

Mr. D'Angelo also serves on the boards of directors of several corporations.

Active also in community affairs, Mr. D'Angelo is a Trustee Emeritus of The Episcopal Academy, Merion, PA, and has served as a member of the Executive Committee and the Finance Committee of its Board of Trustees, as President of its Alumni Society and as Chairman of its Annual Giving Fund. He has served on the Vestry of The Church of the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr, PA, as an officer or board member of the International Visitors Center, the Philadelphia Art Alliance and the English-Speaking Union, and has led or assisted in fundraising for the Academy of Natural Sciences, The Athenaeum and The United States Ski Team. He also was a founding member and Chairman of the Jefferson Scholars Program, Philadelphia Region, of the University of Virginia.

Mr. D'Angelo is a member of the World Affairs Council, The Athenaeum, International Visitors Center, Philadelphia Club, Merion Cricket Club, The Assemblies, Penn Club, and the IVth Street Club.

Recent Presentations and Publications:  

Mr. D'Angelo is a frequent speaker and author on law-related matters, some of which are Collective Redress/Class Action in the European Union: Collective Redress and Class Action - Unequal Brothers or Twins?, Report on the Hearing of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe on Collective Redress, and What did Go Wrong with a Well-meant Idea in the U.S.?, Speaker, International Association of Defense Counsel,  2009 European Conference, Prague, Czech Replublic, May, 2009;  Proposals for Collective Redress in Europe, Speaker, Product Liability Advisory Council, Spring Conference, April, 2009; Il Contenzioso di Massa in Italia, in Europa e nel Mondo ("Mass Litigation in Italy, Europe and the World") (Guiffre Editore, 2008), Contributing Author, Stati Uniti d'America, or Class Actions in the United States of America;  The Attorney-Client Privilege in Civil Litigation, Fourth Edition (American Bar Association, 2008), Contributing Author;  DRI Fifty-State Compendium on Enforceability of Non-Compete Agreements, Contributing Author, Delaware (Defense Research Institute 2009); Proposals for Collective Redress in Europe, Speaker, IADC, 2008 European Conference, Munich, Germany; Class Actions in the United States, Toronto Conference 2007; Multinational Survey on Legal Privilege, Contributing Author (IADC, 2007); Rome Convention I and the Proposals for a New Regulation of the European Parliament and Council, Speaker and Moderator, IADC, 2006 European Conference, Vienna, Austria; Compendium on Defending Intellectual Property Claims (DRI, 2006), Contributing Author, Awards of Attorney Fees to "Prevailing Parties" in Trademark Cases: Both Sword and Shield for Defendants; Multi-National and Multi-State Extraordinary Damages Survey (IADC 2006), Contributing Author; International Comparative Analysis of Punitive and Exemplary Damages, Speaker and Moderator, IADC Annual Conference, 2006;  Recent Developments in Breach of Fiduciary Duty Law, Speaker, IADC, 2006 Mid-Year Conference; Comparative Examination of the Legal Privilege in Australasia, Europe and the U.S., Speaker, IADC, 2006 Mid-Year Conference; Product Safety - the U.S. and European Governmental Product Safety Regulations and Standards, Speaker and Moderator, 2004 Joint International Conference on U.S. and European Perspectives on Product Liability Issues; Employment, Discrimination and Harassment Issues; Directors and Officers Liability; and Insurance and Reinsurance, Barcelona, Spain, May, 2004; Client Relationship Management: Improving the In-house/Outside Counsel Relationship, Moderator, IADC Annual Conference, 2004; The USA PATRIOT ACT: Fact or Fiction - An Overview of Concerns (IADC, 2003); If You Think the Patriot Act Doesn't Apply to You, You're Wrong! Find Out Why, Moderator, IADC, 2003 Annual Conference; Law and the Media in the Bad Publicity Case, Moderator, IADC, Annual Conference 2002; Multinational Jurisdictional and Procedural Issues Created by the World Wide Web: Litigation in a World Without Boundaries, 2002 DRI Techno-Torts Conference, April 2002; An Overview of Damages and The Compensation Scheme in Products Liability Actions in the United States, DRI Second International Product Liability Conference "The Globalization of Products Liability", June 2001; Hot Topics in Products Liability - the New Restatement in Pennsylvania, PBI Seminars, December, 2001; Issues Management in the Global Economy: Creating and Managing Documents, 65 For The Defense 494 (IADC 1998); Caught in the Web - Liabilities and Litigation From Commercial Use of the Internet (IADC, 1998); Effect of Compliance or Noncompliance With Applicable Governmental Product Safety Regulations on a Determination of Product Defect, 36 So. Tex L. Rev. 453 (1995); The Economic Loss Doctrine: Saving Contract Warranty Law from Drowning in a Sea of Torts, 26 U. Toledo L. Rev. 591 (1995); and a number of State-by-State Surveys of the law published by the American Bar Association on various topics.  His presentations have involved such topics as products liability and business litigation, multi-national litigation, information and documents management, and issues involving the internet and the use of the internet in litigation and investigations.

Admitted to Practice: 

Mr. D'Angelo is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States and the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.  He is regularly admitted pro hac vice in other federal and state courts.

Education:

Mr. D'Angelo received his B.A. with distinction, and with Honors in History (1975) and J.D. (1978) from the University of Virginia.  As an undergraduate, he was a co-founder of The Declaration, a newsweekly, held several offices in Sigma Phi Society; was on the business staff of The Cavalier Daily; and was a member of The Virginia Players.  In law school he served as counsel to the University's Honor and Judiciary Committees.