Christine McInerney
Partner
Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., cum laude, 1986); State University at Stony Brook (B.A., with highest honors, 1983)

Ph: (516) 663-6682
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Email: cmcinerney@rmfpc.com
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Christine McInerney is a partner at Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, P.C., where she is a member of the firm's Litigation Department and Intellectual Property Group. McInerney’s practice focuses on commercial and business litigation in state and federal trial and appellate courts, and in various arbitral forums. She has substantial experience in cases and representations involving intellectual property and technology. She has also litigated a variety of commercial cases involving issues of contracts, accounting, restrictive covenants, business fraud, and business dissolutions.

She graduated cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center and received her undergraduate degree with highest honors at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. At Georgetown, Ms. McInerney was awarded the James John McTigue Essay Award for legal writing. While at Stony Brook, Ms. McInerney was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was awarded a Commendation for Outstanding Leadership and Service.

McInerney is an active member of the Nassau County Bar Association.  She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Nassau County Bar Association and a member and former Chair of its Commercial Litigation Committee. She is also a member of the New York State Bar Association and one of the Nassau County Delegates to the New York State Bar Association's House of Delegates.

McInerney was named one of the Top 50 Women in Business by Long Island Business News in 2005, 2007 and 2009 and is now a member of its "Hall of Fame." McInerney was named 2008 Business Woman of the Year by the National Organization of the Executive Women's Golf Association.  In August 2007, she was honored as "Businesswoman of the Year" at the Long Island Business News Third Annual Golf Classic.

In 2002, McInerney was profiled by Newsday as one of eight Long Island movers and shakers in the daily newspaper's Top 100 Public Companies issue, as an example of "People of Note" in the Long Island business community and was also named one of the 40 business leaders under the age of 40 by Long Island Business News.

McInerney has been featured as a speaker on a variety of topics at seminars and presentations offered by her firm, by local business groups and by the State and local Bar Associations.  She has also has authored a number of articles on a variety of legal topics that have been published in the New York Law Journal,  the Nassau Lawyer, Copyright World, and in firm publications.

McInerney was the Founding President of the Executive Women’s Golf Association, Long Island Chapter, which has more than 900 members and is currently the largest chapter in the organization. She is a member of its Advisory Board. Long Island Golfer Magazine profiled McInerney in their March/April 2002 edition as one of the significant Women in Golf on Long Island. McInerney also was featured by Networking Magazine in its May 2005 edition.  McInerney is also a member of the Executive Board of Directors and Treasurer of the nonprofit Child Abuse Prevention Services.

Published

• "Getting Sanctions for Spoliation -How Much Prejudice is Required?" Nassau Lawyer, February 2007 (co-authored with Jon A. Gemma).

• "Settling Cases Early in the Litigation Process," Nassau Lawyer, September 2006 (co-authored with Joshua Kirsch)

• “Protecting ‘Unlabeled’ Attorney Work Product,” Nassau Lawyer, March 2006 (co-authored with Joshua Kirsch)

• “Lack of Clause? Arbitration Compelled When a Related Pact Has It,” New York Law Journal, Outside Counsel, January 25, 2005 (co-authored with Joshua Kirsch)

• “Expert Disclosure in New York’s Federal and State Courts,” New York Law Journal, Outside Counsel, April 8, 2004 (co-authored with Kimberly B. Mandel)

• “Court Rules E-Books Are Not Necessarily Books,” Copyright World, Issue 120, May 2002.

Lecturer:

• “Witness Testimony of a Commercial Litigation Trial:  Practice Pointers for Both Direct and Cross” (Nassau Academy of Law, Nassau County Bar Association, February 2009)

• “Restrictive Covenants, a Discussion of both Substantive and Practical Issues” at the “Commercial Division Update” (Nassau Academy of Law, Nassau County Bar Association, November 2007)

• “New Rules for Depositions” (Nassau Academy of Law, Nassau County Bar Association, September 2006)

• “Federal Civil Practice: A Primer” (New York State Bar Association,  May 2005)

• “New Attorney Advertising Rules” (Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, PC CLE Seminar, March 2007)

• “E-Discovery: A Practical Approach to Issues, Problems and Pitfalls” (Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, PC CLE Seminar, June 2004)

• “Professional Ethics for Corporate Counsel” (Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, PC CLE Seminar, June 2002)