CHRISTINE THOMSON

cthomson@mhlrt.com

's practice focuses on medical malpractice actions, though she also represents plaintiffs in products liability and other personal injury actions with extensive medical damages as well as legal malpractice in handling medical cases. Christine Thomson has practiced law in Charlottesville for twenty-three years.

Ms. Thomson is lead counsel in medical malpractice actions currently pending throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. Because of her expertise, other law firms frequently associate her as trial counsel in cases involving complex medical facts and legal issues such as sovereign and charitable immunity. Among these are cases of delayed diagnoses of cancer, such as breast, cervical and colon cancers; misuse of laser equipment; and malpractice in the areas of obstetrical care, spine surgery, endoscopies, emergency room care, psychiatric care, in hospital assaults and others.

Education:

• Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, (B.A. 1971)
• University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, (MA 1975)
• University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia, (JD 1985)

Professional Activities:

• Virginia State Bar
• Virginia Trial Lawyers Association
• American Board of Trial Advocates
• Charlottesville-Albemarle Bar Association
• American Association for Justice
• Listed in the 2008 edition of "The Best Lawyers in America"
• American Board of Trial Advocates
• Former President of the Thomas Jefferson chapter of the American Inns of Court
• Virginia Bar Association
• Author of "The Myth of the Charitable Physician, Why tax-exempt foundations and their physicians should not be entitled to charitable immunity in Virginia," The Journal of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, Spring 2006.