Overview
Christine Kain defends pharmaceutical, medical device, food and beverage, and other manufacturers in class actions, mass torts, product liability and consumer fraud cases.
Product Liability Experience
Christine has been involved in multidistrict and large-scale product liability litigation, with experience:
- Managing offensive and defensive discovery issues
- Conducting hundreds of depositions of opposing parties, doctors and expert witnesses
- Briefing and arguing procedural, discovery, dispositive and trial motions
- Preparing witnesses for trial
Cross-Product Experience
Christine has served as national and local counsel in matters involving contraceptives, bisphosphonates, hormone replacement therapy, anti-psychotic medications, medical devices, asbestos, food recalls and foodborne illness outbreaks, and consumer fraud class actions.
Commercial Litigation
Christine also has significant experience as the lead lawyer in commercial disputes, general product liability actions and premises liability actions.
Personal Interests
A former teacher and paralegal, Christine enjoys spending time debating the importance of the Oxford comma (it is important), reading novels by Tad Williams and Jim Butcher, playing tennis, and spending time with her family.
Related Services
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Credentials
Bar Admissions
Minnesota
Court Admissions
U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
Clerkships
Minnesota Supreme Court, Hon. Alan C. Page, 2007-2008
Education
University of Minnesota Law School
J.D. magna cum laude, Order of the Coif (2007)
University of Minnesota
B.A. summa cum laude (2000)
Insights & Events
Latest
Insights
News
Other Perspectives
- Looking to 2017: What Could Be Ahead for Drugs, Devices, and Mass Torts
Co-author, Defense Research Institute, January 2017 - 5 Major Drug and Device Developments of 2022
Republished by Law360, January 2023
Firm Blog Contributions
- Faegre Drinker on Products – a blog addressing all things product liability that covers legal issues and developments of interest to product manufacturers and their employers
Leadership & Community
Pro Bono
- Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center Legal Clinic
- YouthLink Legal Clinic
- Children's Law Center — Representing state wards and foster care youth in child protection proceedings
- Represent asylum clients before Immigration Court
Professional Associations
- Minnesota State Bar Association — Food and Drug Law Section Council (Past President, 2016-17)
- Hennepin County Bar Association
- Defense Research Institute — 2023 Drug & Medical Device Conference Planning Committee
- Minnesota Supreme Court Historical Society — Current Chair
Civic Activities
- BestPrep eMentoring Programs
Honors
- Minnesota Lawyer — Up & Coming Attorney, 2016
- Faegre Baker Daniels — Pro Bono Honor Roll, 2014-16, 2018-19
- Minnesota Super Lawyers — Rising Star, Personal Injury: Products Defense, 2014-18
- Benchmark Litigation — Future Star, Class Actions, Product Liability, 2020
Awards Methodology
No aspect of these recognitions has been approved by the highest court of any state.
No aspect of these recognitions has been approved by the highest court of any state.