Christine Malafi JD

Christine Malafi JD General Information

Biography

Ms. Christine Malafi serves as Senior Partner at Campolo, Middleton & McCormick. Immediately prior to joining the firm, she was senior corporate counsel to Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc., where she handled corporate governance, acquisitions, routine and complex transactions, employment issues, and other business matters, both nationally and internationally. In January 2004, Ms. Malafi was appointed Suffolk County Attorney, as the first woman and youngest person ever appointed to the position. In that position for eight years, she was the chief legal officer of the County, supervising a legal team of over sixty-five attorneys in the Suffolk County Department of Law. During her eight-year tenure, she focused on obtaining jury verdicts in favor of the County, making fewer settlements, streamlining contract procedures, enforcing anti-discrimination laws, and protecting children from harm. Prior to becoming Suffolk County Attorney, ms. Malafi was a partner with Lewis Johs Avallone Aviles & Kaufman, LLP, a large defense firm, where her practice focused on insurance coverage and contract analyses, appeals, insurance fraud issues, general liability litigation, municipal work, and environmental defense work. Ms. Malafi has taught both undergraduate and law school classes on litigation, legal research, and writing at Long Island University, C.W. Post, and at Touro Law Center. She has also lectured extensively on municipal issues, insurance coverage issues, and claim handling. She has been appointed by Chief Administrative Judge Gail Prudenti to the New York State Pro Bono Scholars Task Force, and additionally, she was a speaker and member of Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman's New York State Task Force to Expand Access to Legal Services in New York, the New York State Judicial Institute on Professionalism in the Law, and was a presenter at the Chief Judge's Convocation on Independence and the Government Lawyer in Albany, NY.