Kristin Davis

Experience

Kristin’s practice focuses on representing corporate clients in active litigation, whether its pursuing insurance coverage for policyholders in first- and third-party coverage litigation or defending hospitality industry clients in contract disputes and from tort claims. Through mediation and litigation, she has successfully resolved client matters for a variety of coverage claims and complex commercial litigation, ranging from mass tort and environmental liabilities for Fortune 500 companies, to professional liability coverage for directors and officers and their financial institutions, to property damage and business interruption claims for government contractors and hotels.

Kristin also counsels businesses on risk mitigation and methods for maximizing returns on insurance programs and how to respond to a loss immediately after it happens, without resorting to litigation. This work includes negotiating settlements with other parties in supply-chain disputes and/or negotiating settlement of insurance coverage before litigation commences. Representative examples of her success include negotiating coverage for a former director being held personally liable for his bankrupt company’s state tax liabilities and advising and procuring recoveries for multiple types of corporate clients on product recall and general liability coverage after defective products (or components incorporated into their products) resulted in property damage, bodily injury, and/or lost business income.

Kristin maintains a significant pro bono practice, having represented individuals and organizations in federal court, state court, immigration court, landlord-tenant court, and at administrative hearings. Currently, Kristin serves as habeas counsel to long-time hunger striker and artist, Ahmed Rabbani, a Guantanamo detainee held without charges in US custody for 17 years. Her past pro bono work includes serving as habeas counsel and part of the periodic review board private counsel team for the last Russian Guantanamo detainee, released in January 2017. She also has represented refugees and asylum seekers in Greek refugee camps and in the US, including obtaining parole and asylum for a political asylum seeker and his family in a case that required trying matters of first impression.

Kristin graduated from Vanderbilt University Law School, where she served as an associate editor on the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. She was a two-year member of the Philip C. Jessup international law moot court team, which was the Southeast Super Regional Champion Team in 2009. Kristin remains an active member of the Jessup community, judging at the regional and international level. While in law school, she also interned at the U.S. Department of State, Office of War Crime Issues and U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Civil Rights, Special Litigation.

Phone: (202) 367-6178

Email: kdavis@thompsonhd.com