Attorney Christopher D. Lindstrom is a partner in the Houston office of Dortch Lindstrom Livingston Law Group and handles matters for a diverse group of clients around the country. Chris’s practice includes representing companies and individuals in a wide array of cases, including commercial litigation, catastrophic personal injury, labor and employment, product liability, and insurance-related litigation. He also works in both prosecuting and defending claims related to intellectual property infringement, oil-and-gas-related contracts, covenants not to compete, breach of contract, trade secrets, and director/officer fiduciary duty claims.
Chris also handles litigation on behalf of bankruptcy trustees to recoup money for creditors. In 2014, he was part of the trial team that was awarded fraud “verdict of the year” in C.A. No. 4:11-cv-3700; Rodney Tow vs. John H. Speer, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. It is this multifaceted experience coupled with his results-oriented and trial-focused approach that is central to Chris providing the highest level of service and value to his clients.
Chris is licensed to practice in the state courts of Texas, Colorado, and Arizona but represents the interests of his clients throughout the United States. In the past five years, he has made pro-hoc vice appearances in federal and state courts in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Utah.
Originally from Lake Charles, Louisiana, Chris is a graduate of Texas A&M University and South Texas College of Law. He and his wife, Gricelda, spend most of their free time supporting and acting as chauffeurs for their children to and from St. Anne Catholic School and Incarnate Word Academy.
Honors and Awards
- Super Lawyers Rising Stars (a Thomson Reuters service), 2009-2015
- Texas Lawyer Verdict Hall of Fame, Fraud, 2014
Bar Admissions
- State Bar of Texas
- Colorado Bar
- State Bar of Arizona
- U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
- U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
- U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
- U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska
- U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Education
- J.D., cum laude, South Texas College of Law
- Texas A&M University