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 S. Swift is co-managing partner of Weber Gallagher's Delaware office where she oversees the office's real estate and workers' compensation practices. As a general litigation practitioner, she takes on cases involving commercial and civil litigation, counsels businesses on employment law and insurance coverage issues, and assists individuals and businesses with homeowner association disputes and private and commercial real estate matters.

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. Since 2022, Kristen has served on Law360’s 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. Super Lawyers lists are issued by Thomson Reuters. A description of the selection methodology can be found at https://www.superlawyers.com/about/selection-process/

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 and construction law.

Assistant

Nichole Wilcher
302.356.1125
nwilcher@wglaw.com
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