David Black
Associate
Mr. Black practices law in a variety of areas, primarily focusing on litigation. Major concentrations include commercial litigation for a wide variety of individual and corporate clients, employment discrimination defense work for a major university, and complex products liability defense for major pharmaceutical companies. He also handles numerous matters which arise from his representation of various private schools, ranging from drafting enrollment agreements, employee handbooks and employee severance agreements, to negotiating and drafting contracts between schools and vendors, to advising schools on issues involving employment, real estate, admissions and education law. Representative engagements include: a building collapse case in which we represented the owners of a building in Manhattan and where workers at an adjacent building undermined the foundation of our clients’ building; representing owners of a cooperative apartment against the cooperative corporation which refused to grant our clients a reasonable accommodation to permit our clients to accommodate a disability; and representing a corporation in a legal malpractice action against a national law firm.
Bar and Community Service:
Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Committee on the Civil Court (1997-2000); Committee on State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction (2002-2006); several Judiciary Subcommittees (1998-2000, 2002-2006); and Education and the Law Committee (2008-present)).
Member, University of Pennsylvania Secondary School Committee (2004-present).
Publications:
“FDA’s New Labeling Rule Asserts Federal Pre-emption of State Product Liability Claims,” Product Liability Law & Strategy. April 2006;
“New Federal Rules For Electronic Discovery May Become Effective in 2006,” Product Liability Law & Strategy, October 2005;
“Federal Pre-emption of Failure to Warn Claims in Recent Drug Cases,” Product Liability Law & Strategy, July 2005;
“Discoverability of Attorney Work Product Communications Supplied to Experts, Part Two,” Product Liability Law & Strategy, November 2004;
“Discoverability of Attorney Work Product Communications Supplied to Experts, Part One,” Product Liability Law & Strategy, October, 2004;
“Electronic Discovery in Mass Tort Multidistrict Litigations,” Product Liability Law & Strategy, February 2004;
“Statewide Coordination of Mass Tort Cases Becoming Increasingly Popular,” Product Liability Law & Strategy, July 2003;
“Certification of Nationwide Classes in Mass Tort Litigation Involving Consumer Fraud Laws,” Product Liability Law & Strategy, October 2002.
