Kristine R.Argentine

Partner

Kristine is a zealous advocate for her clients in the areas of consumer class action defense, complex commercial disputes, trade secrets, restrictive covenants, and fraud.


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Kristine works with her clients to develop and implement the best strategic approach to align with their particular goals and needs. She approaches her cases with a comprehensive and cost-effective strategy that takes into consideration a variety of potential defense outcomes. She has represented a wide range of clients in class actions and complex commercial litigation in jurisdictions all over the country in both state and federal court.

Kristine serves as the National Chair of Seyfarth’s Commercial Consumer Class Action Defense Group. She has extensive experience with class action defense with respect to consumer issues, including, but not limited to, antitrust violations, consumer fraud, unfair trade practices, breach of warranty, breach of contract, unfair competition, and false advertising. She also focuses on privacy class actions, including data breach claims and claims alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, as well as state telephone solicitation laws, the Video Privacy Protection Act, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, the California Invasion of Privacy Act, and other state privacy and data protect laws. Kristine has prepared and argued numerous successful motions to dismiss and other dispositive motions in class actions and complex litigation matters, including defeating several class certification motions.

Kristine represents clients with respect to class actions and complex litigation in a wide range of industries, including retail, personal care products, automotive, food and beverage, health care, and construction

Kristine has been with Seyfarth since joining as a summer associate during law school. She loves the challenges that come with litigation, and counseling her clients in anticipation of litigation. Kristine enjoys representing clients in varying jurisdictions, and working with clients and with her colleagues to develop innovative litigation strategies and solutions that best serve her clients' needs.

  • JD, DePaul University College of Law
    Summa cum laude
    Order of the Coif
  • BS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Psychology
  • Illinois
  • US District Court, Northern District of Illinois
  • US District Court, Northern District of Indiana
  • US District Court, Western District of Michigan
  • US District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin
  • Illinois Supreme Court