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120 South Riverside Plaza
Suite 1200
Chicago, IL 60606
P 312.876.7140
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Practice

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Christopher S. Naveja
Partner

Mr. Naveja is a partner in the Litigation group of Arnstein & Lehr. He has experience representing clients in complex commercial and tort litigation. He has devoted significant amounts of time to matters involving breach of contract, fraud, consumer fraud, and tortuous interference with contract and prospective economic advantage. In his practice he represents a number of manufacturers, financial institutions, automobile dealers, and construction companies. He has experience handling mediations, arbitrations, non-jury trials, and jury trials in Chicago and the surrounding communities. Mr. Naveja was part of the Firm’s trial team that successfully litigated a multi-million dollar lease dispute involving one of Chicago’s landmark hotels. He is also a member of the Firm’s consumer finance litigation team which has successfully litigated, on behalf of major financial institutions, consumer class action cases throughout the country.

Professional Activities and Achievements

Mr Naveja recently spoke at the NADC conference on the implications of electronic discovery under the Amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. He has also co-authored several articles which include: “The FTC Holder in Due Course Language: What’s Your Liability?” published in Auto Finance & Leasing, Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer 1997, pp. 6-10; “The Rooker-Feldman Doctrine: An Analysis of its Application in Today’s Legal Environment,” Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report (2001). Mr. Naveja is a member of the American Bar Association and the Chicago Bar Association and serves on the Firm’s Hiring, Diversity, and Continuing Legal Education Committees.

Education

University of Illinois School of Law (J.D. cum laude, 1995)
Indiana University (B.S. in Finance, 1992)

Bar Admissions

State of Illinois; U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois; U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals; U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals