Demetra Arapakis Christos is the Managing Partner of Foley Mansfield’s Chicago office. Demetra joined Foley Mansfield in its Detroit office in 2001 and relocated in 2007 to help launch the firm’s Chicago office, maintaining a robust practice in both states. She is chair of the firm’s Professional Liability practice and serves on the firm’s Executive Committee.

Demetra is a fierce advocate for her clients and strives to achieve the very best results for them —always keeping her clients’ ultimate goals at the forefront. She is a commercial and civil litigator with more than twenty years of experience successfully defending businesses and select individuals. Her areas of focus include E&O and D&O liability, employment disputes, complex coverage matters, construction defects, and toxic tort litigation, including asbestos and talc. As both a litigator and trained mediator, Demetra provides creative solutions to help her clients achieve their goals and minimize the stress and unnecessary expenses associated with litigation.

In employment matters, Demetra represents clients in disputes involving wrongful discharge, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, whistleblower, compensation, and other employment-related claims. In related professional liability matters, she defends professionals and companies against D&O and E&O claims ranging from simple negligence to complex malpractice.

Her vast and diverse litigation experience includes assisting in numerous asbestos and talc trials, serving as both local counsel and National Coordinating Counsel for product manufacturers and premise owners, and successfully defending contractors, product manufacturers, suppliers, and premise owners in product liability cases.

Demetra devotes many hours providing pro bono legal services. In 2010, she co-chaired a first degree murder case in which she successfully argued and won a bond motion that had previously been denied five times. Demetra also has handled select family law cases involving divorce and custody issues.

Demetra is active in the Chicago Bar Association and serves as a volunteer judge for the Annual Moot Court Competition.