Christopher Rolin

Christopher Rolin is a trial attorney with over 45 years of trial experience in civil litigation. He focuses on attorney conduct in compliance with the applicable community standard of care.

Christopher Rolin is an expert witness in the areas of legal malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty, fee disputes, ethics in both litigation and transactional areas. He focuses on attorney conduct in compliance with the applicable community standard of care. Christopher Rolin is an expert witness in the following areas of legal malpractice:

• Standard of care in both litigation and transaction areas
• Breach of fiduciary duty
• Fee disputes
• Ethics and Rules of Professional Conduct

He also provides testimony as an expert in the real estate area in matters involving:

• Residential and commercial real estate agency malpractice
• Individual real estate agent malpractice
• Transactions, interpretation of forms and documentation

LEGAL MALPRACTICE EXPERIENCE:

He has taken over 100 cases to judgment and verdict and settled several hundred cases. The range of cases successfully taken to trial include legal malpractice, construction defect cases; probate and trust cases, including, surcharging fees and costs asserted by executors and attorneys, as well as will contests; real estate broker agency non disclosure issues, negligence and misrepresentation claims; breach of lease agreements; limited partnership disputes; specific performance of real estate contracts; creditor’s rights suits including obtaining writs of attachment, writs of execution, temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions.

His trial experience has resulted in numerous assignments as an expert witness on trial and the attorneys duty to render services in compliance with the community standard of care. He has been retained as an expert by both Plaintiffs and Defendants in legal malpractice and real estate cases.