David T. Biderman

David T. Biderman


Perkins Coie LLP

Recognized since 2012

Los Angeles, California

Practice Areas

Commercial Litigation

Product Liability Litigation - Defendants

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David Biderman, a partner in Perkins Coie's San Francisco and Los Angeles offices, focuses his practice on mass tort litigation and consumer class actions. He heads the firm's Mass Tort/Toxic Tort Defense group. He has represented a wide variety of companies in state and federal courts in California for 30 years.

David currently manages the firm’s full-service product liability team responsible for defending over 1000 toxic tort cases pending in Los Angeles and Northern California state courts. These cases entail ongoing trial activity at various levels for several trials set each month. The highly experienced and well-coordinated team has handled thousands of asbestos toxic tort cases for a variety of clients spanning a period of over 10 years.

The group’s clients include FORTUNE 500 companies from such industries as consumer products, aerospace manufacturing, household goods, dry cleaning, and industries that generate electromagnetic fields, such as electric utilities and operators of wireless communications systems.

On consumer class actions, David represents packaged food companies, coffee companies, dairy companies, footwear companies and others whose nutritional or health claims have been challenged. He also has represented search engines and other online companies. He has a record of favorable results for clients. He successfully tried a major consumer fraud class action on behalf of one of the world’s major search engines in a case involving online gambling advertisements. For that same client, he negotiated a favorable settlement of a class action challenging its online advertising pricing. He represented a major coffee retailer in defeating a class action on standing grounds. He also has litigated pre-emption defenses arising out of food labeling and obtained a dismissal for a client whose nutritional statements were challenged.

David speaks and writes regularly on class action issues. He has presented to the American Bar Association (ABA), the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, the Product Liability Advisory Group and others on consumer class actions. David has served the courts through the Civil Litigation Subcommittee of the California Judicial Council, on special committees formed by the state courts to address toxic tort litigation, and as a member of the ABA’s American Jury Project.

David is recognized by clients and by professional organizations for his client service and work ethic. He has regularly been listed as a “Super Lawyer” in Los Angeles or San Francisco. He has been recognized by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association and Los Angeles Business Journal as a “Top Rainmaker.” He has published articles in the National Law Journal, the Los Angeles Daily Journal, the Defense Research Institute’s member publication, For the Defense, and the Washington Legal Foundation.

Location
  • 1888 Century Park East, Suite 1700
    Los Angeles, CA 90067-1721
Education
  • Emory University, BA
Bar Admissions
  • California, The State Bar of California
Affiliations
  • American Bar Association - Member
  • American Bar Foundation - Fellow
  • Asian/Pacific Bar of California, Advisory Council - Member
  • Association of Business Trial Lawyers - Members
  • Bar Association of San Francisco - Member
  • California Advocates Inc. - California Asbestos Project Steering Committee
  • DRI - The Voice of the Defense Bar - Member
  • Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel - Member
  • Japanese American Bar Association - Member
  • Los Angeles County Bar Association - Member
  • National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) - Member
  • The Association of Southern California Defense Counsel - Member

Perkins Coie LLP
Headquarters: Seattle, Washington

270 The Best Lawyers in America® awards

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Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2024 for work in:
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
Awards:
  • Peer Review Rated AV in Martindale-Hubbell
  • Listed in Los Angeles magazine as a Southern California "Super Lawyer," 2004, 2007 - 2013
  • Listed in Law & Politics and San Francisco magazines as a Northern California "Super Lawyer," 2009 - 2012
  • Highlighted as one of the leading rainmakers in "Diversity & The Bar"
  • Rated Superb on Avvo.com
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Consumer Law
  • Food and Beverage Law
  • Mass Tort Litigation
  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
  • Product Liability Litigation

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