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Christopher Spinelli

Proven Verdicts
Partner at Emroch & Kilduff
Richmond, VAAdmitted 2003

About Christopher Spinelli

Christopher L. Spinelli joined Emroch & Kilduff in 2013 after a decade practicing with a large plaintiffs firm in Hampton Roads. He has advocated for injured clients for more than fifteen years in federal courts, appeals courts, circuit courts, district courts, and disability and workers' compensation hearings across Virginia. He has tried numerous cases to favorable verdict and has resolved many medical malpractice and wrongful death cases with settlements exceeding one million dollars.

Born and raised in Richmond, Mr. Spinelli graduated from Midlothian High School and earned his undergraduate degree with honors from the College of William and Mary. After several years of teaching, he attended the University of Virginia School of Law, where he edited the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, clerked for the 16th Judicial Circuit of Virginia, and earned an early practice certificate. He is licensed in Virginia and North Carolina and is active with the Richmond Bar Association and the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$2.3 millionSettlement

An 80-year-old woman attending a funeral reception fell down non-uniform exterior stairs at a private club, sustaining a traumatic brain injury, skull and facial fractures, and a shoulder fracture, and settled for $2.3 million in July 2024.

Virginia (mediated; Judge Thomas S. Shadrick, Ret.) · 2024Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$1.5 millionVerdict

A Richmond woman went to the emergency room two days after a cesarean delivery with pain, fever and a CT scan suggesting a uterine abscess. Her obstetrician treated her for a routine postpartum infection for about a week, and she then needed a laparotomy to remove necrotic uterine tissue. A Richmond Circuit Court jury returned $1.5 million in March 2018, and the parties settled for $1.45 million to avoid an appeal.

Richmond Circuit Court, Virginia · 2018Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of Virginia School of Law
J.D., 2002
College of William and Mary
Undergraduate, 1994

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Virginia, admitted 2003
State Bar of North Carolina, admitted 2010

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