Kristen S. Swift

Partner
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Direct: 302.221.3298
New Castle
2 Penns Way, Suite 300
New Castle, DE 19720
T: 302.221.3290
F: 302.221.3295
 

Assistant

Nichole Wilcher
302.356.1125
nwilcher@wglaw.com
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Kristen co-manages Weber Gallagher’s Delaware office and oversees the office’s workers’ compensation practice. As a general litigation practitioner, she takes on cases involving civil litigation, contract disputes, premises liability, construction defects, civil rights and employment claims, insurance coverage issues, HOA disputes, and real estate matters. 

Kristen provides insurance coverage opinions, appellate assistance, and litigates in all Delaware courts in myriad areas of the law including, employment, civil rights, insurance, subrogation, contract disputes, construction, general liability, malpractice, workers' compensation, and bankruptcy.

Kristen routinely represents business owners, non-profits, and homeowner’s associations. She also helps out-of-state counsel understand the “Delaware Way” as they navigate the litigation process.

Before joining Weber Gallagher, Kristen was an in-house litigator for a Fortune 100 insurance company. In 2013-2014, she was Wolcott Fellow to former Justice Jack B. Jacobs of the Delaware Supreme Court. While in law school, Kristen also interned for Chief Judge Leonard P. Stark in the U.S District Court, District of Delaware, and for the Honorable Mary F. Walrath in the U.S Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware. Kristen was the first Web Content Editor for the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law and graduated magna cum laude.

Kristen is the Immediate Past Chair of the Delaware State Bar Association's Litigation Section and previously chaired the Association’s Torts & Insurance Section. She serves on the editorial board for the Delaware State Bar Journal, where she launched a column that focuses on providing content to women attorneys aimed at combating attrition of women in the legal profession. She also serves on Law360’s 2022 Delaware Editorial Advisory Board.

Since 2019, Kristen has been recognized by the publisher of the Delaware edition of Super Lawyers magazine as a "Rising Star," an honor given to the top 2.5 percent of attorneys in Delaware.  She was selected by her peers for inclusion in the 2022 edition of Best Lawyers in America among "Ones to Watch." Since 2018, Kristen has been named to Delaware Today magazine’s “Top Lawyers” list in the category of Insurance Law.

Assistant

Nichole Wilcher
302.356.1125
nwilcher@wglaw.com
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