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Dave Alden's practice focuses on product liability and, in particular, on defending actions involving pharmaceuticals, medical devices, tobacco, and consumer products. He also has substantial experience defending accounting malpractice, RICO, and securities actions. He has been involved in multiple trials and appeals in state and federal courts. Dave regularly counsels clients regarding attorney-client privilege and work product protection issues and has defended challenges to such claims in multiple jurisdictions.
For years, Dave has represented clients as national coordinating counsel, including R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in smoking and health actions and Wyeth in actions involving prescription antidepressants. He also has represented medical device manufacturers in actions relating to personal injuries and economic losses. And Dave was an in-house attorney for a major accounting firm, where he defended malpractice, securities, and RICO actions.
Recently, Dave coauthored Drug and Device Product Liability Litigation Strategy (Oxford Univ. Press 2012), the Ohio chapter in Product Liability Desk Reference: A Fifty-State Compendium (Wolters Kluwer 2012), and articles addressing attorney-client privilege waiver — "Voluntary Client Testimony As A Privilege Waiver: Is Ohio's Law Caught In A Time Warp?," 59(1) Clev. St. L. Rev. 1 (2011) — and medical device preemption — "The Meaning Of The Parallel Requirements Exception Under Lohr and Riegel," 65(3) N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. L. 545 (2010). He has, on a pro bono basis, represented inmates seeking DNA testing and successfully argued before the Supreme Court of Ohio to reverse a trial court's order denying new DNA testing, Ohio v. Prade, 126 Ohio St. 3d 27, 930 N.E.2d 287 (2010).