Our Team
 

Christine Sanfilippo has worked in the legal sector for over 20 years and holds extensive experience in California state and federal courts in civil litigation and mediation. Christine specialized in employment law, including sexual harassment, wrongful termination, and discrimination. Her areas of practice were further concentrated in automobile liability, government tort liability, personal injury litigation, including high-profile wrongful death cases, and civil rights litigation. Christine worked for many years as an associate attorney with the law firm of Bolling, Walter & Gawthrop and then with the firm of Angelo, Kilday & Kilduff, where she became a partner. For the last two decades, Christine has been able to utilize her mediation expertise in roles as business and property manager in Sacramento and the Bay Area.

 

In recent years Christine's legal focus has been exclusively on mediation, serving as a private neutral, as well as a neutral for several county and non-profit mediation organizations throughout Northern California. These include: Placer Dispute Resolution Services, Yolo Conflict Resolution Center, Sacramento Mediation Center, California Lawyers for the Arts, the Juvenile Restorative Justice Program in Yolo County administered by Yolo Conflict Resolution Center, Sacramento Superior Court, and Placer County Superior Court.

 

Christine became an approved mediator for the City of Sacramento CARES Mediation Program administered by Sacramento Mediation Center/California Lawyer for the Arts, where she negotiates landlord/tenant conflicts arising out of the special circumstances related to COVID-19. She regularly serves as a Settlement Conference Judge Pro Tem in Department 59 of the Sacramento Superior Court. Christine routinely participates in online mediations and is proficient on the Zoom platform. 

 

Christine obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Davis, and her Juris Doctor from Lincoln Law School in Sacramento. She received specialized mediation training under mediation pioneer, Ronald Kelly, at the University of California, Berkeley. Christine further concentrated her mediation specialization by completing an additional 40 hours of advanced litigation-specific mediation training at the renowned Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law. Christine is an active member of the California State Bar, California Lawyers Association, and the Sacramento County Bar Association (she serves on the Executive Committee of the SCBA ADR Section—she will serve as chair beginning in 2025). 

 

Christine recently completed extensive training as a work place investigator through Association of Workplace Investigators and is AWI-CH designated and conducts external workplace investigations for employers. Christine served the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento philanthropically for many years as a junior high school mock trial/speech and public speaking instructor and as a member of the Diocese’s Finance Council Board.

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