When charting a course for your future,
it pays to have people on board who know their way around...

Richard H. Cross, Jr.

Tara M. DiRocco

Amy E. Evans

Joseph Grey

David Holmes

Michael J. Joyce

Kevin S. Mann

Christopher P. Simon

Craig J. Springer

Christopher P. Simon focuses his practice in bankruptcy law and commercial litigation in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.  Prior to joining founding member Richard H. Cross, Jr., Mr. Simon worked at The Bayard Firm (now Bayard, P.A.) in Wilmington, Delaware. He began his career as a trial attorney with the Office of the Public Defender for the State of Delaware.

Mr. Simon has represented a wide variety of parties and interests in federal court, and in chapter 11 and chapter 7 corporate bankruptcy cases, including debtors, trustees, official committees of unsecured creditors, landlords, equity holders and creditors.  He regularly appears as lead counsel in all aspects of litigation (including contested matters and adversary proceedings) in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware and the United States District Court for the District of Delaware, and has argued on appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He is listed on the Register of Mediators and Arbitrators Pursuant to Bankruptcy Local Rule 9019-4 for the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

In addition to bankruptcy law and litigation, Mr. Simon has experience litigating consumer class action matters.  In December 2009, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware certified a consumer class action case filed by Mr. Simon and his partner, Richard H. Cross, Jr., captioned, Johnson, et al. v. Government Employees Insurance Co., et al., D. Del. C.A. No. 1:06-cv-408.  Cross & Simon, LLC is lead counsel in the Johnson case, as well as other consumer class action cases filed in Delaware.

Mr. Simon graduated from Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and received his Juris Doctorate from Widener University School of Law in Wilmington, Delaware. At Widener, he served on the law review for the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law.

Before beginning his legal career, Mr. Simon worked as a journalist. His articles have appeared in The News Journal, The Baltimore Sun and The Wall Street Journal, where he worked as an intern staff reporter.

Mr. Simon is a member of the Board of Trustees for Christ Church Episcopal Preschool, and a volunteer guardian ad litem for the Office of the Child Advocate. From 2002 to 2011, he served as a Commissioner for the Wilmington Housing Authority.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Wilmington Revitalization Corporation, and as a Commissioner for the Ethics Commission for New Castle County, Delaware. He is a member of the Delaware State Bar Association (and member of the Nominating Committee), the Delaware Trial Lawyers Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute, and the American Bar Association.

Mr. Simon lives in Wilmington with his wife Laura, and children, Christopher, Alexandra and Hudson.