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 Christopher
Martini Battista is a licensed attorney with 15 years of political and
legal experience. He currently manages his own law practice that
specializes in contracts, commercial litigation, and administrative law.
Mr.
Battista was a counterterrorism legal analyst at The Investigative
Project. There he provided counsel on legal issues related to terrorism
such as; extrajudicial detention, immigration fraud, asset-freezing, the
Patriot Act and use of torture. In addition, he was a subcontractor to
the Special Inspector General of Iraqi Reconstruction (SIGIR) in the
Iraqi reconstruction effort, where he advised on government procurement
matters and the status of Iraqi Reconstruction contracts.
Mr.
Battista has also held a position at MCI in their law and public policy
department. In this role he assisted their government relations team
and political action committee (MCIPAC) in tracking and researching key
telecommunications issues and analyzing electoral data during the 1996
election cycle. During his tenure, he was instrumental in helping MCI to
influence the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Mr.
Battista attended California Western School of Law in San Diego, CA and
graduated at the top of his class in administrative law and legal
jurisprudence and criminal law. During law school he interned at Carter,
Fullerton and Hayes, a firm that specializes in contracts and property
law; and McKenna and Cunneo, a nationwide firm with expertise in
insurance recovery litigation. Mr. Battista also published three legal
papers: The Constitutionality of the V-Chip, Executive Disclosures to
Congress, and Long-term Political Viability of the International
Monetary Fund (IMF).
Mr.
Battista graduated with honors from Drew University in Madison, NJ with
a Bachelors of Arts degree in Political Science. As a Washington, DC
area native from Gaithersburg and Potomac, MD, Mr. Battista was exposed
to politics at an early age and took advantage of the many summer
internship opportunities available on Capitol Hill while in college. He
has served as a public relations and government intern for
Burson-Marsteller, Dutko and Associates (Dutko Worldwide) and MFS
Telecom.
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