David W. Bianchi

David W. Bianchi

David Bianchi is a trial lawyer with more than 33 years of experience and was recently profiled in the South Florida Legal Guide’s “Top Lawyers” edition. (Click here to read the article.) Most recently, he was selected by the prestigious “Best Lawyers In America” publication as Miami’s 2013 “Lawyer of the Year” for representing people who were injured as a result of defective products. This is what the Best Lawyer’s website states about this award:

Lawyers being honored as “Lawyer of the Year” are selected based on particularly impressive voting averages received during the exhaustive peer-review assessments we conduct with thousands of leading lawyers each year. Receiving this designation reflects the high level of respect a lawyer has earned among other leading lawyers in the same communities and the same practice areas for their abilities, their professionalism, and their integrity.

For many years Mr. Bianchi has been listed in Florida Trend’s “Legal Elite; “Florida Super Lawyers;” “South Florida Legal Guide “Top Lawyers;” and has been ‘AV’ rated by Martidale Hubbell for over 20 years.  

Mr. Bianchi has represented clients in a wide variety of cases including business disputes, defective cars and trucks, class actions, suits arising from poorly constructed homes, medical and legal malpractice, automobile accidents, negligent security claims, claims against insurance agents and insurance companies, airplane crashes and many others.

Mr. Bianchi obtained the largest fraternity hazing verdict in the country in a case that arose at the University of Miami and obtained the first verdict in the country against Mercedes Benz in a case involving a defective airbag system in the 1999 Mercedes S420 automobile. He has successfully represented clients in cases against Toyota, Nissan, Chrysler, Suzuki and Ford as well. To date he has obtained verdicts and settlements in excess of $150,000,000.

Mr. Bianchi has been active in legal and professional organizations for over thirty years. He is a former member of the Florida Bar’s Board of Governors where he chaired the Insurance Practices Special Study Committee, a committee that created a new disclosure form for use in certain lawsuits in Florida which was subsequently adopted and made mandatory by the Florida Supreme Court; he is past chairman of the Trial Lawyer’s Section of the Florida Bar, an organization of 6,500 lawyers representing both plaintiffs and defendants; past chairman of the Joint Committee of the Trial Lawyers Section and the Conference of Circuit and County Court Judges resulting in the publication of a handbook for judges and lawyers that is now updated and republished every year; he is past President of the Young Lawyers Division of the Florida Bar, an organization of 14,000 lawyers, the recipient of the 2000 Florida Bar President’s award for “Outstanding” contributions to the Bar and to the citizens of the State of Florida. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocacy, an invitation-only group of trial lawyers who have tried at least 25 cases to verdict and was recently appointed to the board of directors of the Coral Gables Bar Association.

At the podium raising funds at Kristi House’s 2010 Touch a Heart Dinner

In addition to his activities involving the practice of law, David has been active in charitable, community and business activities as well. For many years, he and his wife Julia have been very involved in supporting Kristi House, a local charity that provides services to children who are victims of sexual abuse. For the past three years David has served as the auctioneer for the organization’s principal fundraising dinner. Along with his wife, he has chaired the Annual Ball for the American Red Cross and has been a regular supporter of several programs under the auspices of the Red Cross. He is the past chairman of the Board of Trustees of Plymouth Congregational Church in Coconut Grove, Florida, chaired the annual fundraising campaign for the church and is the moderator-elect for Plymouth, the highest lay position within the structure of the Congregational Church. He is a past director of the Fisher Island Club, Inc. on Fisher Island, Florida, and a founding member of the Fisher Island Philanthropic Fund. He is a former director and Vice-Chairman of the holding company of Florida Savings Bank, a local bank that was sold to Commerce Bank; a former director of Affomix Corporation, an antibody company spun-out of Yale University that was sold to Illumina, Inc. and is active in similar investments as well. Along with his wife, he is co-chairing the annual fund raising campaign for St. Stephens Episcopal Day School in Coconut Grove, Florida where their son is a 5th grade student.

Areas of Practice:

  • Admiralty & Maritime Law
  • Aviation
  • Business & Commercial Law
  • Contracts
  • Health & Health Care Law
  • Legal Malpractice
  • Litigation & Appeals
  • Medical Malpractice Law
  • Motor Vehicle Accidents — Plaintiff
  • Nursing Home
  • Personal Injury — Plaintiff
  • Products Liability Law
  • Professional Malpractice Law
  • Toxic Torts

 

Litigation Percentage:

  • 100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

 

Bar Admissions:

  • Florida, 1979
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
  • U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida
  • U.S. District Court Middle District of Florida

 

Education:

  • Boston College Law School, Boston, Massachusetts, 1979 J.D.
  • Tufts University, 1976 B.A., Magna Cum Laude

 

Published Works:

  • Construction Accidents: The Search For A Defendant , Florida Bar Journal, Oct., 1984
  • Negligent Operation Of A Pleasure Boat, American Jurisprudence, Proof of Fact 2d, Vol. 43, 1985
  • All Our Lawyers Are Juris Doctors, Florida Bar Journal, Jan., 1989

 

Honors and Awards:

  • Nominee, Trial Lawyer of the Year, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, 1989
  • The Florida Bar, President’s Award of Merit, 2000, in recognition of his outstanding leadership as Chairman of the Insurance Practices Special Study Committee and the adoption of a Client’s Bill of Rights for the benefit of all lawyers and citizens of the State of Florida

 

Professional Associations and Memberships:

The Florida Bar, Board of Governors, 1987 – 1989
Member

The Florida Bar, Board of Governors, 1998 – 2004
Member

The Florida Bar, Insurance Practices Special Study Committee, 1999 – 2000
Chairman

The Florida Bar, Investment Committee, 2000 – 2002
Chairman

The Florida Bar, Trial Lawyers Section, 1998 – 2001
Board Liason

The Florida Bar, Oversight Committee, 1986 – 1987
Member

The Florida Bar, Program Evaluation Committee, 1987 – 1988
Member

The Florida Bar, Disciplinary Procedures Committee, 1987 – 1988
Member

The Florida Bar, Disciplinary Review Committee, 1988 – 1989
Member

The Florida Bar, Committee on Lawyer Solicitation, 1987 – 1988
Member

The Florida Bar, Advertising Review Committee, 1989
Member

The Florida Bar, Trial Lawyers Section, Executive Council, 1989 – 1998
Member

The Florida Bar, Trial Lawyers Section, Executive Council, 1997 – 1998
Chairman

The Florida Bar, Joint Conference of Circuit Court Judges, County Court Judges and Trial Lawyers Section, 1995 – 1996
Chairman

The Florida Bar, Grievance Committee, 1995 – 1997
Member

The Florida Bar, Young Lawyers Division, 1988 – 1989
President

The Florida Bar, Young Lawyers Division, Board of Governors, 1984 – 1989
Member

The Supreme Court of Florida, Jury Innovations Committee, 2000 -2001

The Supreme Court of Florida, Judicial Nominating Commission,Third District Court of Appeal, 1991 – 1995
Member

Dade County Bar Association

Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers
EAGLE

ABOTA
Dade County Trial Lawyers Association

The Association of Trial Lawyers of America

New York Bar Association

Washington D.C. Bar Association

Roscoe Pound Foundation

Red Cross Annual Ball co-chairman 2004
(Principal Fundraising event for the Miami Red Cross)

Selected by Ronald McDonald Foundation as one of Miami’s “12 Good Men,” 2007

Kristi House, Inc., Touch a Heart Dinner Master of Ceremonies, 2010, 2011, 2012

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Day School, Annual Campaign Chair, 2012

Birth Information:

1954, Bellport, New York, United States of America

Awards and recognition

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