It gives me great satisfaction to know that I’m helping my clients as individuals and as members of a class of victims by working to improve the safety of both our environment and the consumer marketplace. My mission is to help those who otherwise would not have a means of redress against corporate wrongdoing, to bring justice to people who were harmed through no fault of their own.

The power to pursue and punish environmental wrongdoers increases dramatically when a law firm has as its backbone attorneys who live and breathe environmental protection. That is why having advocates like Christopher Dalbey on board as an associate attorney is so important to us. In addition to being a lawyer, Mr. Dalbey is a California-licensed architect who holds accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council in the LEED program — this means he is highly skilled in the construction of environmentally sustainable buildings. He is also highly skilled at constructing cases against companies that act in ways harmful to the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the soil you live on.

Prior to joining Weitz & Luxenberg in 2014, Mr. Dalbey clerked in federal court, working for the Hon. Andrew P. Gordon of the District of Nevada. He began serving in that capacity in 2013, after spending a year in the same role for the Hon. Bruce A. Markell in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Nevada. He accepted that assignment fresh out of law school, where he graduated magna cum laude. Mr. Dalbey distinguished himself in other ways while in law school at the University of California, Irvine. He served as an editor of the U.C. Irvine Law Review and won the Faculty Award for earning the highest grade of any student in the environmental law, environmental law clinic, federal income-tax law and consumer law courses he took. The Dean’s Award was bestowed on him for earning the second-highest grade of any in his evidence and property courses. Mr. Dalbey co-founded the school-related Public Interest Law Fund. He currently serves as first vice president of the U.C. Irvine Law Alumni Association. He was no less impressive a student during his undergraduate years. At the University of Southern California, where he majored in architecture, Mr. Dalbey graduated with honors and won the U.S.C. School of Architecture’s Raymond S. Kennedy Award for Outstanding Thesis Design, as well as the American Institute of Architects’ Merit Award for Excellence in Architectural Studies. After graduating from U.S.C. in 1999, he spent the next decade working as an architect involved in the design of movie and TV production studios in the U.S. and abroad. For two of those years he plied his craft entirely in Valencia, Spain.