Cristina I. de Arana
Associate
Workers' Compensation
Associate
Workers' Compensation
Counsels and defends employers, insurance carriers, and third-party administrators in workers’ compensation litigation throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Cristina de Arana is an Associate in the firm’s Workers’ Compensation Department. She focuses her practice on defending self-insured employers, insurance carriers, and third-party administrators in workers’ compensation litigation throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Prior to joining Post & Schell, Ms. de Arana was an Associate at a law firm in Philadelphia, where she represented clients in removal proceedings and advocated for immigrants at various stages of the legal process, including asylum interviews and naturalization hearings. She interned for multiple organizations, including the Sheller Center for Social Justice, Nationalities Service Center, the ACLU of New Jersey, and Temple Legal Aid Office, and has presented her work to human rights leaders at the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia.
Ms. de Arana earned her J.D. from Temple University Beasley School of Law and holds a B.A. in Political Science and Women and Gender Studies from the University of Delaware.