David Kiernan has extensive experience litigating a wide variety of intellectual property, commercial, product liability and personal injury cases in state and federal trial courts. He has tried numerous serious products liability cases, medical malpractice cases, commercial cases, and patent cases. He has also handled several significant Daubert type evidentiary hearings, declaratory judgment actions, and arbitrations.

Mr. Kiernan’s representative cases include:

• Intellectual Property:  Max Planck v. Whitehead Institute (RNA interference); Medimmune v. Genentech (recombinant antibodies); Stanford Litton v. Tyco (optical couplers); Freedom Wireless v. Boston Communications (prepaid wireless); Sensormatic Electronics v. TAG Company (electronic article surveillance); Xoma v. Biosite (recombinant antibodies); TFD v. Thomas & Betts (metallized particle interconnect); Sobstad v. North Sails (sails).
• Products Liability: National Coordinating and trial counsel for Merck in connection with Vioxx litigation; Bayer in connection with Baycol litigation; American Home Products in fen-phen litigation; and General Electric in various product cases.
• Commercial: Dynegy v. Telstra (breach of contract); Kirson v. Bay Area Health Care (contract); Capobianci v. Foster (contract).
• Medical Malpractice: Lead trial counsel in numerous medical malpractice cases for Georgetown University Medical Center, George Washington University, Columbia Hospital for Women, Childrens’ National Medical Center, e.g., Iacangelo v. Georgetown University (D.D.C., January 2011).

Mr. Kiernan possesses both a J.D. and an M.D. from Duke University. He is a Fellow in the American College of Legal Medicine and a former adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center.