David F. Maron, is a shareholder in the Jackson, Mississippi office and is a member of the Firm's Litigation and Product Liability & Mass Tort Groups. He also is a member of Drug, Device and Life Sciences Industry Group and concentrates his practice in defense of both government consumer protection civil actions as well as other tort, product liability and business litigation. He has litigated a variety of disputes included consumer fraud, government regulatory matters, product liability, toxic tort and contract/business dispute cases in state and federal courts. He serves on the Firm's Leadership Advisory Committee and has been actively involved with numerous pro bono initiatives and other community and non-profit organizations.
- Mississippi defense liaison counsel for all Mississippi Average Wholesale Price pharmaceutical cases.
- Represented Mississippi Insurance Department in $1.6 billion corporate restructuring of Mississippi's largest property and casualty insurer under Mississippi insurance holding company and change of control statutes.
- Appellate counsel for amicus in support of Mississippi damage cap on non-economic damages.
- Lead counsel in arbitration for pharmaceutical company, favorably resolving multi-million dollar dispute involving aseptic manufacturing of biopharmaceutical product.
- Lead defense counsel for construction aggregate defendant in Mississippi toxic tort silica litigation with successful dismissal of over 200 cases.
- As co-liaison defense counsel for Mississippi tobacco litigation, preserved federal diversity jurisdiction with successful dismissal of fraudulently joined resident retailer defendants under Mississippi Innocent Seller Statute.
- Defense of pharmaceutical company in Mississippi hormone replacement therapy litigation.
- Successfully litigated severance of misjoined product liability and deceptive advertising claims and defended it on interlocutory appeal to State Supreme Court.
- Appellate counsel in successful appeal of complex commercial dispute following trial involving expulsion of shareholder and dissolution of multimillion dollar business.
- Author – "Litigation: 5th Circuit to rule on constitutionality of Mississippi's cap on noneconomic damages," InsideCounsel (November 15, 2012)
- Author – "Litigation: Examining the scope of CAFA's general public exception in parens patriae cases," InsideCounsel (September 20, 2012)
- Author – "A Good Lawyer & The Golden Rule," ethics and professionalism, The Mississippi Lawyer, Vol. LVIII (Summer 2012)
- Lead author – "Taming an Elephant: A Closer Look at Mass Tort Screening and the Impact of Mississippi Tort Reforms," Mississippi College Law Review, 26 MISS. COL. L. REV. 253 (2007)
- Speaker – "Mass Tort Issues," Mississippi Bar YLD CLE Seminar (January 20, 2006)
- Co-author – "The Changing Legal Landscape of a Mass Tort Haven: A Mississippi Story," IADC Toxic and Hazardous Substance Litigation Newsletter, December 2004, No. 2
- Speaker – "Toxic Mold Litigation," Hot Topics and Trends in Trial Practice, Delta State University (2003)
- Speaker – "Obtaining, Releasing, Retaining and Destruction of Medical Records: A Practical Guideline to HIPAA Compliance," NBI Litigation Seminar (2003)
- Author – 7 Encyclopedia of Mississippi Law, Public Access to Information 65:54 - 65:80 (Jeffrey Jackson & Mary Miller eds. West 2002)
- Co-author – "Post Production Charges to Royalty Interests: What Does the Contract Say and When is it Ignored," Mississippi Law Journal, 70 MISS. L. J. 627 (2000)
- Co-presenter – "Experts: Bridging the Scientific and Evidentiary Gap," 6th Annual International Petroleum Environmental Conference (November 16, 1999)
- Speaker – "First Amendment in Federal Courts: The Media in the Legal Profession," Federal Bar Association CLE Seminar (1999)
- Co-presenter – "Non-Hazardous Oilfield Waste: What Disposal of N.O.W. Can Cause Later," 5th Annual International Petroleum Environmental Conference (October 20, 1998)
- AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
- Mid-South Super Lawyers (2009)
- Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® (2013)
- International Association of Defense Counsel
- Defense Research Institute (Drug & Medical Device Committee; Product Liability Committee; Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Committee; Professionalism and Ethics Committee)
- Member – Mississippi Bar Association (ABA YLD District Representative, 2004 – 2006; Executive Committee: Section on Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law, 1997 – 2000)
- Capitol Area Bar Association (President, 2012 – 2013)
- Member – American Bar Association (Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, Litigation Section, Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Committee, TIPS Leadership Academy, 2008 – 2009)
- Fellow of the American Bar Foundation
- Fellow of the Young Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association
- Fellow of the Mississippi Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division
- American Inns of Court, Judge Charles Clark Inn, Bencher
- 2006 Mississippi Business Journal, Top 40 Under 40
- Baker Donelson Firm-wide Pro Bono Attorney of the Year (2007)
- Federal Bar Association (President, Mississippi Chapter, 2004 – 2005)
- Jackson Young Lawyers Association (President, 2001 – 2002)
- 2005 Mississippi Center for Justice Award for "Exemplary Pro Bono Service in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina"
- Mississippi Outstanding Young Lawyer Award (2005 – 2006)
- Jackson Young Lawyers Association Outstanding Service Award (1997 – 1998, 2002 – 2003)
- Mid-South Super Lawyers 2008 Rising Star
- Named to Portico Magazine's "Portico 10" (2012)
- Leadership Jackson (Graduate 2000 – 2001, Board of Trustees, 2006 – 2009)
- Habitat for Humanity Metro Jackson (Trustee – Advisory Board)
- Mississippi, 1995
- United States Supreme Court
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi
- United States Tax Court
- University of Mississippi School of Law, J.D., 1995, cum laude
- Associate Editor – MISSISSIPPI LAW JOURNAL
- Mississippi College, B.S., 1992, with high honors and special distinction
- Scholar Athlete of the Year, 1992