Christine M. Jalbert is an associate Attorney at Burr & Smith, LLP.  She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University in 1997 (concentrating in American civilization with a focus on discrimination), and graduated cum laude from Stetson University College of Law in 2004.  She also studied international human rights law abroad at Oxford University.  At Stetson, Christine was a national moot court finalist and competed nationally and internationally on the Civil Rights and International Commercial Arbitration moot court teams.  She was Vice President of Equal Justice Works at Stetson, and named a Collegiate All-American Scholar and Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities.  

Christine has significant experience representing plaintiffs in employment discrimination cases under state and federal law, including Title VII, the ADA and ADEA.  She also has experience representing clients in state and federal civil appeals before the Second District and the Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeals.  She prevailed and received a published opinion (Galvez v. Bruce, 522 F.3d 1238 (11th Cir. 2008)) in a Fourth Amendment excessive force appeal before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

Christine has been a member of the Pinellas County Trial Lawyers Association, the Barney Masterson Inn of Court, and the Appellate Section of the St. Petersburg Bar.  She has presented on the topic of ‘preservation of error for appeals’ in a continuing legal education seminar sponsored by the St. Petersburg Bar, as well as before the Pinellas County Trial Lawyers Association.

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