Christopher Andrew Jarvinen Appointed to Professional Responsibility Committee of the New York City Bar Association

September 30, 2024

Christopher Andrew Jarvinen, a partner on the Business Reorganization Team of Berger Singerman LLP, has accepted an invitation to serve on the Professional Responsibility Committee of the New York City Bar Association (the “City Bar”).  

The City Bar, founded in 1870, has over 23,000 members.  Its stated mission is “to equip and mobilize a diverse legal profession to practice with excellence, promote reform of the law, and uphold the rule of law and access to justice in support of a fair society and the public interest in our community, our nation, and throughout the world.”  The Professional Responsibility Committee of the City Bar examines legal ethics issues facing legal practitioners and makes recommendations as to potential changes in standards that govern the conduct of lawyers.  Mr. Jarvinen’s three-year term runs through July 31, 2027.  

Mr. Jarvinen has been elected to the American College of Bankruptcy, the American Law Institute, and the International Insolvency Institute, and during 2019, he served as a Fulbright scholar at the Bankruptcy Law & Restructuring Research Center of the China University of Political Science and Law located in Beijing, China.  He received his law degree from Boston College Law School, his undergraduate degree in Economics from Brown University, graduate degrees in theological ethics and religion from, respectively,  Harvard Divinity School and Yale Divinity School, a global Executive Master of Business Administration from FGV-EAESP located in São Paulo, Brazil, both a Postgraduate Diploma in Organisational Leadership and a Master of Science degree in Major Programme Management from the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford, and he is currently pursuing an Executive LL.M. degree at Columbia Law School.  Mr. Jarvinen has also served as an adjunct professor at FGV-EAESP teaching courses focused on international legal management.