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David
L.
Wallace
Partner
Practice Description
David Wallace is a courtroom lawyer focusing on all phases of complex, health-effects products liability defense and related counseling. For two decades, he has counseled, coordinated and personally litigated -- "hands on" -- the defense of multinational corporations in civil- and common-law jurisdictions globally. Based in New York, he leads Chadbourne's multi-disciplinary nanotechnologies practice.
Representative Matters
- Successfully tried two directed verdicts in tobacco cases in state courts—one in Connecticut (2001) and the other in New York (2005).
- Successfully litigated the pre-trial dismissal of numerous high-profile products liability actions by either voluntary dismissal or on motion.
- Represented an English company in a landmark $280 billion action brought by the U.S. Department of Justice against multiple corporate defendants alleging conspiratorial violations of civil racketeering laws (RICO).
- Successfully defended an English company in the first tobacco case ever heard in the courts of the United Kingdom, which ended on voluntary dismissal, at the Queen’s Bench in Belfast.
- Defended several hundred products liability cases against the holdings of an English company in civil law courts across Central and South America.
Honors
Mr. Wallace is recommended in The Legal 500 (2007 and 2008) and New York Super Lawyers (2006 and 2007), and was also listed in An International Who’s Who of Product Liability Defense Lawyers (1997).
The Australian Financial Review reported that Mr. Wallace’s pre-trial cross-examination of the key witness against his client in a civil RICO case—an affiliate’s former general counsel turned whistleblower—caused the witness’s Australian barrister “extreme[ ] disappoint[ment]” and the witness to “storm out of the examination.” Portions of this cross-examination subsequently appeared in a documentary film called The Big Lie: The Controversial Case of McCabe vs. The British American Tobacco Company, which aired on Australian television in 2005. Some of the novel, multi-jurisdictional discovery disputes he litigated in the course of this RICO case were covered by The National Law Journal.
Activities and Affiliations
- Member, International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC)
- Member, Defense Research Institute (DRI)
- Board of Editors, Product Liability Law & Strategy (ALM Publication)
- Advisory Board, The Nanoethics Group (Cal. Polytechnic State Univ.)
- Advisory Board, Nanotechnology Law & Business
- Member, Product Liability Committee, International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution
Publications
Mr. Wallace serves as editor of In re Products Liability, Chadbourne’s products liability newsletter.
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"Mediating the Uncertainty and Abstraction of Nanotechnology Promotion and Control: 'Late' Lessons from Other 'Early Warnings' in History," Nanotechnology Law & Business, (forthcoming)
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"In re Products Liability NewsWire," July 2008
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"Chadbourne on Nanotechnology: The Need for New Policy and Business Paradigms," Product Liability Law & Strategy, July 2008
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In re Products Liability NewsWire, April 2008
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"Nanotechnology And The Power Of Innovation," Technology Law360, Portfolio Media, Inc., January 25, 2008
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"Mediating the Uncertainty and Abstraction of Nanotechnology Promotion and Control: 'Late' Lessons from Other 'Early Warnings' in History," Nanotechnology Law & Business, (forthcoming)
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"In re Products Liability NewsWire," July 2008
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"Chadbourne on Nanotechnology: The Need for New Policy and Business Paradigms," Product Liability Law & Strategy, July 2008
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In re Products Liability NewsWire, April 2008
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"Nanotechnology And The Power Of Innovation," Technology Law360, Portfolio Media, Inc., January 25, 2008
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"Industrial Revolution Redux -- Nanotechnology: Law and Business at One-Billionth of a Meter," (co-author), Product Liability Law & Strategy, January 2008
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"Nanotechnology: The Future Is Now," (interview), The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, December 2007
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"Small Is the New Big," (co-author), IPFrontline Magazine of Intellectual Property and Technology, November 27, 2007
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"Nanotechnology and Product Safety," (co-author), Product Liability Law360, November 26, 2007
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In re Products Liability NewsWire, November 2007
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"The Commercial Risk of International Trafficking in American-Style Tort Litigation," Bloomberg Law Reports - Litigation, October 29, 2007
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"Eleventh Circuit Holds That Beryllium Sensitization May Be Cognizable 'Injury'," Mondaq, August 30, 2007, reprinted in Product Liability Law360, September 24, 2007
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"The Dispositive Preemption Question," (co-author), Product Liability Law360, July 30, 2007
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In re Products Liability NewsWire, July 2007
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"Overview of Trademark Licensor Liability for Defective Products," (co-author), Bloomberg Law Reports, June 25, 2007
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"Trademark Licensor Liability for Defective Products Under U.S. Law," (co-author), law.com, May 16, 2007
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In re Products Liability NewsWire, April 2007
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"'Lost in Translation': The Blurring of the Distinction Between Assumption of Risk and Comparative Fault by Tort Plaintiffs For Profit," Strictly Speaking: The Newsletter of the DRI Product Liability Committee, January 18, 2007
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In re Products Liability NewsWire, November 2006
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"Beryllium Sensitization (Without More) Not A Disease Or Cognizable Tort Injury," Mealy's Emerging Toxic Torts, September 2006
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In re Products Liability NewsWire, July 2006
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"A Dispatch from America's Tobacco Litigation Ranks: Primary Assumption of Risk and Personal Responsibility in a Comparative Fault Age," Zeitschrift für Stoffrecht: The European Journal for Substances and the Law, May 2006
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In re Products Liability NewsWire, April 2006
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Speeches and Events
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"The Trojan Horse of Modern Consumer Class Actions: Consumer Protection or Corporate Blackmail? A Litigator's Guide to 'Consumer Law' Theory and Practice," Quebec Bar Association, Montreal, Canada, October 23-24, 2008
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"Mediating Nanotechnology Uncertainty and Abstraction: Lessons from Recent History and the Case for New Paradigms," Credit Suisse Global Nanotechnology Conference, London, England, June 17-18, 2008
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"Nanotechnology Tools: Advancements in Characterization and Fabrication," (moderator); NanoBusiness Alliance Conference, New York, NY, May 4-6, 2008
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"The Perfect Storm? International Trade in American-Style Tort Litigation," Managing Production in Foreign Countries and Related Global Litigation, DRI Annual Product Liability Conference: Product Liability in the Global Economy, Phoenix, AZ, February 6-8, 2008
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Nanotechnology Law & Commerce: Business at One-Billionth of a Meter, (chair), New York, NY, January 31, 2008
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"The Trojan Horse of Modern Consumer Class Actions: Consumer Protection or Corporate Blackmail? A Litigator's Guide to 'Consumer Law' Theory and Practice," Quebec Bar Association, Montreal, Canada, October 23-24, 2008
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"Mediating Nanotechnology Uncertainty and Abstraction: Lessons from Recent History and the Case for New Paradigms," Credit Suisse Global Nanotechnology Conference, London, England, June 17-18, 2008
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"Nanotechnology Tools: Advancements in Characterization and Fabrication," (moderator); NanoBusiness Alliance Conference, New York, NY, May 4-6, 2008
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"The Perfect Storm? International Trade in American-Style Tort Litigation," Managing Production in Foreign Countries and Related Global Litigation, DRI Annual Product Liability Conference: Product Liability in the Global Economy, Phoenix, AZ, February 6-8, 2008
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Nanotechnology Law & Commerce: Business at One-Billionth of a Meter, (chair), New York, NY, January 31, 2008
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"The RICO Racket: Plaintiffs Having ‘Fun with Fraud’ and Products," Defense Research Institute’s Annual Meeting, Products Liability Committee Meeting, San Francisco, CA, October 11-15, 2006
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