For more than twenty years, Christina has represented companies and individuals in litigation in federal and state courts at the trial and appellate levels and in arbitrations and mediations. She focuses her practice on business disputes, professional malpractice defense, and multidistrict litigation proceedings, including antitrust matters.
Christina’s practice extends to cross-border disputes involving clients and issues in countries, such as Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, El Salvador, Mexico, Switzerland, the Bahamas, and South Korea. She handles complex procedural and jurisdictional issues and questions of conflict of laws.
Christina is dedicated to imparting her legal research and writing skills to foreign attorneys. She has many years of experience teaching legal research and writing to candidates in the University of Miami School of Law’s Comparative Law LL.M. program. She also has crafted and taught legal writing courses to foreign in-house attorneys seeking to improve their English writing and communication skills.
Recognitions and Honors
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America© in Commercial Litigation since 2020
Ranked by South Florida Legal Guide as a Top Lawyer in Commercial Litigation, Multidistrict Litigation, and Proceedings/Antitrust, 2021
Recognized in Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Global Litigators Guide for 2024
Recognized in Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Litigators in America Guide for 2025
Associations & Activities
Florida Bar:
– International Law Section
– Trial Lawyers Section
– International Arbitration and Litigation Committee
United States District Court, Southern District of Florida:
– Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Rules and Procedures
International Association of Young Lawyers
Cuban American Bar Association
Publications
Adjustment of Status for Alien Material Witnesses: Is It Coming Three Years Too Late?, 54 University of Miami Law Review 75, Author, October 1999
Professional Experience
Shareholder, Kenny Nachwalter, P.A., Miami, Florida (2008-2024)
Associate, Kenny Nachwalter, P.A., Miami, Florida (2002-2008)
Judicial law clerk to the Honorable Alan S. Gold, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (2000-2002)
Teaching Experience
Instructor, University of Miami School of Law, Legal Research and Writing, 2001-2011
Education
University of Miami School of Law, J.D., summa cum laude, 2000
– Harvey T. Reid Scholar
– Order of the Coif
– Member, Moot Court Board
Florida International University, B.A., summa cum laude, 1997
– Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
– Honors Program
– Torch Award for Distinguished Alumnus
Admissions
Florida Bar, 2000
United States District Court, Southern District of Florida
United States District Court, Middle District of Florida
United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
Supreme Court of the United States