Chris Marlin
Chris, head of our Miami office, served as deputy general counsel and litigation chief of Lennar Corporation, a New York Stock Exchange-listed Fortune 500 company prior to joining Sitrick. In that role, Chris was responsible for the management of all of the company’s litigation. In his legal career, he also has played key roles in an array of multi-district litigation matters, internal investigations, web attacks, environmental disputes, ballot initiatives and a variety of media-related matters as a first-responder in sensitive crises. He is experienced in both the court of law and the court of public opinion. Prior to joining Lennar, he worked as a litigator at Holland & Knight and Foley & Lardner, two of America’s largest leading law firms. Chris has broad experience in a variety of high-profile crises and legal matters, including criminal cases, sensitive internal investigations, security threats, union organizing campaigns, environmental issues, government investigations, international trade crises, ballot initiatives, and large-scale product liability cases. He graduated from Emory University School of Law as its Most Outstanding Graduating Student in 1997, an honor he also earned upon graduation from the University of Central Florida. He has also served an adjunct professor of constitutional law at UCF. Chris is a product of the Carter Presidential Center’s celebrated conflict resolution program, where he worked with foreign service, former heads of state, and international nongovernmental organizations in connection with crises and conflicts in Northern Ireland, Georgia’s Abkhazian conflict, and the Rwandan genocide and reconciliation process. Chris has published a chapter in a national security textbook titled “Terrorism, War, and Freedom of the Press: Suppression and Manipulation in Times of Crisis,” and an often-cited article on just war theory based on his work in the Carter Presidential Center’s conflict resolution program. A Renaissance Institute attendee, he also serves as a director of the Florida Bar Foundation.