David Biderman represents companies in consumer class actions, commercial litigation, and mass torts. He has represented companies in the consumer-packaged goods (CPG), food and beverage, and technology industries.
David is the firmwide chair of the Perkins Coie Food & CPG Litigation industry group. His team excels in defending food, beverage, and consumer goods companies in consumer class actions and other litigation nationwide. The group is one of the leading groups in this area and offers daily updates, trend reports, and industry roundtables.
For 20 years, David managed a product liability team responsible for defending more than 1,000 toxic tort cases pending in state courts in the western United States. David has also handled many sophisticated commercial disputes.
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, the Consumer Brands Association, and the Food and Drug Law Institute. David teaches a popular course at UCLA that focuses on class actions, food litigation, and regulation. He 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.
Chambers USA has listed David as a top lawyer for Food & Beverage: Regulatory & Litigation for five years, and he has been honored by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association.
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