About Kristopher
Kristopher "Kip" Mallahan is an attorney specializing in medical negligence claims and merchandise liability cases — He practices at Weltchek Mallahan & Weltchek LLC in Lutherville, Maryland. He joined the Maryland State Bar in 2004 and the District of Columbia Bar in 2005. The firm, positioned at 2330 West Joppa Road, Suite 203, handles complex litigation matters, including clinical negligence, wrongful death, severe injury, products legal responsibility, and complicated business torts. He earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in 2003, where he used to be awarded the Order of Barristers for trial advocacy.
His undergraduate degree, a Bachelor of Arts, used to be obtained cum laude from Washington State University in 2001. During law school, he clerked for the Maryland State Bar Association. His practice focuses on complicated litigation matters, which includes clinical negligence, wrongful death, catastrophic injury, merchandise legal responsibility, and complicated enterprise torts. He used to be counsel in the landmark $one hundred fifty million verdict against ExxonMobil for its groundwater infection of a Jacksonville, Maryland community.
Before becoming a member of Weltchek Mallahan & Weltchek LLC, he spent three years as a staff attorney on the Maryland State Bar Association. He previously labored at a small firm in Lutherville doing personal damage and family regulation work from 2004 to 2005. He belongs to the Maryland State Bar Association and the District of Columbia Bar Association. The Maryland State Bar Association named him among the state's "Top forty Under 40" attorneys in 2010.
He speaks English and conversational Spanish.
