Christopher H. Wood

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP

Christopher H. Wood, Esq., is a partner in the Denver and Washington, D.C. offices of Lewis Brisbois, and is a partner in the firm’s Data Privacy & Cybersecurity group, antitrust, and class action groups. He has over 30 years of experience, with expertise in data privacy disputes, competition, and complex and commercial litigation. Chris represents plaintiffs and defendants (from individuals to Fortune 500 companies) in state and federal proceedings. His antitrust and competition law experience includes private party litigation, class actions, and opt-out proceedings in regulated and unregulated industries. His extensive practice experience has aided him in providing effective counseling for clients navigating the antitrust and fair-trade risks inherent in daily operations. His counseling also reaches to data security systems and data privacy policies. Cybersecurity incident / breach class action and data privacy private party defense litigation constitutes a sizeable portion of Chris’s docket, having litigated dozens of data breach and business email compromise (“BEC”) cases. Chris also focuses on other commercial proceedings and intellectual property matters, managing and handling all phases of business disputes. In recent years, the subject of these representations has involved statutory, constitutional, and common law claims arising from disputes over, among others, trademark usage, copyright, commercial real estate transactions, private entity membership interests, service contracts, consulting agreements, and consumer rights. Before joining Lewis Brisbois, Chris practiced with Crowell & Moring’s Washington, D.C. office, and then as a partner at two other DC firms. Chris currently is an At-Large board member of the Executive Council for the Colorado Bar’s Business Law Section and for several years served as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, teaching antitrust law.

 

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