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Christina Bruner Son­sire, Attorney

A recent addi­tion to the Ziff Team, Christina joined the firm in March 2008 and prac­tices in the areas of Per­sonal Injury and Med­ical Mal­prac­tice. Christina works closely with Carl Hayden, Jim Reed and Adam Gee, a trio with more than 60 years of col­lec­tive per­sonal injury and med­ical mal­prac­tice expe­ri­ence. Christina loves being in the court­room and is eager to con­tinue devel­oping her trial advo­cacy skills.

Christina grad­u­ated from George­town Uni­ver­sity in 1998, earning dual Bach­elor of Arts degrees in Clas­sics and Inter­na­tional Rela­tions and studying Inter­na­tional Eco­nomics abroad at the Uni­ver­sity of Antwerp, Bel­gium. Christina played on the George­town Women’s Soccer Team where she was a four-time member of George­town Soccer’s All Big-East Aca­d­emic Team and served as the team’s cap­tain during her junior and senior years. A pro­lific scorer, Christina still holds Georgetown’s records for the most career goals and assists.

Upon grad­u­ating from George­town, Christina joined Ameri­corps’ National Civilian Com­mu­nity Corps, a vol­un­teer pro­gram often referred to as the “domestic Peace Corps.” Serving in the NCCC for nearly three years and per­forming over 6,500 hours of com­mu­nity service, Christina had an oppor­tu­nity to travel the country and work with a myriad of orga­ni­za­tions including Habitat for Humanity in Min­neapolis, Min­nesota and Branson, Mis­souri, the Col­orado Divi­sion of Wildlife in Fruita, Col­orado, the Fed­eral Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency in Eastern North Car­olina, Rails-to-Trails in St. Louis, Mis­souri, Texas Dis­aster Response in Cuero, Texas, Excel­sior Juve­nile Delin­quent Ser­vices in Aurora, Col­orado, and the Police Activ­i­ties League in Star, Texas.

Giving in to her love of the out­doors, Christina moved to Mis­soula, Mon­tana after grad­u­ating from the NCCC and soon found her­self enrolled in the Uni­ver­sity of Montana’s School of Law. At the U of M Christina received the pres­ti­gious Thomas A. & Eliz­a­beth C. Colton and the Dorothy Ann Allen Hat­field Schol­ar­ships and was a member of the school’s highly selec­tive Moot Court team where she was a Moot Court National finalist and was named a “Best Oralist” in the Western Region. Devel­oping a keen interest in Indian Law, Christina par­tic­i­pated in the Inter­na­tional Con­fer­ence for Indige­nous People at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzer­land in 2002 and worked in the law school’s Indian Law Clinic where she offered free legal ser­vices to Montana’s Indian tribes.

Like Adam Gee, Christina began her legal career at the Chemung County Dis­trict Attorney’s Office as an Assis­tant Dis­trict Attorney. A felony pros­e­cutor, Christina spe­cial­ized in vio­lent crimes against women and chil­dren and worked closely with Chemung County’s Child Advo­cacy Center to insure the rights of vic­tims were respected and the needs of fam­i­lies were met. Christina took a brief leave during her tenure at the Dis­trict Attorney’s Office to work at Davidson and O’Mara, P.C., where she prac­ticed per­sonal injury and munic­ipal defense, gaining valu­able expe­ri­ence from which she will surely draw at Ziff Law. Christina has exten­sive court­room trial expe­ri­ence and has suc­cess­fully argued before New York’s Court of Appeals for the Third Department.

Christina, along with fellow Zif­fLaw injury attor­neys, Jim Reed and Adam Gee, pub­lishes the NYIn­jury­Law­Blog that is a great source of infor­ma­tion about many aspects of N.Y. law and answers the ques­tions that many folks have such as: What is no-fault insur­ance and what does that mean? What kind of insur­ance should I have on my motor­cycle? What should I do if I get hurt in a car crash? You can visit the blog by clicking here.

Christina lives in Elmira with her hus­band, Damian Son­sire, a Chemung County Assis­tant Dis­trict Attorney. She is a member of the Notre Dame High School and Arctic League Boards of Direc­tors, and is a head coach of Notre Dame’s Mock Trial Team. In recog­ni­tion of service to her com­mu­nity, Christina was awarded the Jef­ferson Award for Public Service in 2007. In her spare time Christina enjoys run­ning with the Finger Lakes Run­ners Club, riding her snow­board and hiking on the many trails run­ning through the Southern Tier. Last year Christina ran the Boston and Philadel­phia Marathons, posting a per­sonal best time of 3:01:11 in Philadel­phia. To read Christina’s race reports in the Finger Lakes Run­ners Club’s newsletter go to http://www.fingerlakesrunners.org/newsletter/2007/May/May2007.pdf (Boston report,) and http://www.fingerlakesrunners.org/newsletter/2007/December/Dec2007.pdf (Philadel­phia report.)

Christina can be reached at csonsire@zifflaw.com or by calling 607.733.8866.

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