Attorneys
David W. Bianchi
Miami, Florida
David Bianchi is a trial lawyer with more than 27 years of experience. He has represented clients in a wide variety of cases including business disputes, defective products, 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.
Most recently, Mr. Bianchi obtained the largest fraternity hazing verdict in the country and 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 $100,000,000.
Mr. Bianchi has been active in legal and professional organizations for over twenty 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, in 2004 - 2007 he was selected in a survey of Florida lawyers as one of the “top 2%” of “civil trial” lawyers in the state and in 2007 he was selected in a statewide poll of lawyers as a "Super Lawyer".
Mr. Bianchi is a member of the Board of Directors of Trustees of Plymouth Congregational Church, a past director of Florida Savings Bank and a member of the Alexis de Tocqueville Society of the United Way . He is married and is the father of a six year old son.
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.
Honors: 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
Professional Associations and Memberships:
A.B.A.
Member
A.B.A., Tort and Insurance Practice Section
Member
The Florida Bar
Member
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
Plymouth Congregational Church Member, Board of Trustees
Florida Savings Bank - Former Director and Vice Chairman
Alexis de Tocqueville Society of the United Way 2001 - present
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
Birth Information:
1954, Bellport , New York , United States of America
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