Practice Experience

• Chris Coutroulis is the firm-wide leader of Carlton Fields largest practice group -- Business Litigation & Trade Regulation. He is also the chair of the firm’s Antitrust Group. He practices in the field of business and complex litigation covering a wide range of areas, among them antitrust, class actions, mass torts, environmental litigation, professional and accounting malpractice, securities fraud, and insurance coverage. He handles a wide variety of complex business litigation covering many different industries.
• Mr. Coutroulis is particularly experienced in handling class actions and successfully defending against class certification. He has acted as lead trial counsel in numerous class actions including trials on the issue of class certification. He supervises the firm's class action task force as part of the practice group.
• He is also particularly experienced in antitrust cases, and has handled a large number of antitrust cases, including through trial and binding arbitration, spanning many industries including credit cards, professional sports leagues, insurance, automotive, and energy. He is Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Antitrust and Trade Regulation Law.
• Mr. Coutroulis counsels clients on a range of antitrust and trade regulation matters, handles antitrust training for clients, and is experienced in alternative dispute resolution, arbitration, and mediation.
• Mr. Coutroulis also handles governmental antitrust investigations and demands.
• Mr. Coutroulis is currently serving as one of the principal defense counsel in major multidistrict litigation involving thousands of pharmaceutical cases consolidated in a Florida federal court.

Professional and Civic Activities

• American Bar Association
  Vertical Restraints Past Chair, Antitrust Section
• The Florida Bar
  Antitrust and Trade Regulation Certification Committee, Business Law Section
• American Bar Foundation
• Hillsborough County Bar Association
• Leadership Tampa
• Cheatwood Inn of Court, Master
• American Law Institute

Professional Recognition

• AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• Selected to the Inaugural Committee of The Florida Bar for Antitrust and Trade Regulation Board Certification
• Listed in Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers (Antitrust and General Commercial Litigation) (2003-2009)
• Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America including for “Bet the Company Litigation” (2005-2010)
• Listed in Florida Trend magazine's Florida Legal Elite issue (2007-2009)
• Selected for inclusion in Florida Super Lawyers, and named on the Florida Super Lawyers’ Top 100 List (2006-2009)

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Florida

COURT ADMISSIONS

• United States Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
• U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
• Florida Supreme Court
• Florida State Courts

Education

• Columbia University School of Law (J.D., 1979)
  Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
  James Kent Scholar (for highest academic distinction)
• Wesleyan University (B.A., magna cum laude, economics, 1975)
  Phi Beta Kappa
  White Prize for Economics