Before joining Edison, Chris was a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Wiley, Rein & Fielding, where he specialized in litigation, with an emphasis on advocacy in the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. circuit courts of appeal, and state supreme courts. From 1994 to 1996, Chris worked at the White House, where he served as associate counsel to the President of the United States. Earlier in his career, he served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and to Judge J. Skelly Wright, of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and taught high school history for four years. He graduated in 1984 from Columbia University School of Law, where he was named a James Kent Scholar and Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and served as editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review.

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