David A. Shaw

Attorney Shaw has been representing people with mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases since 1986.

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Attorney Shaw is currently working on asbestos cases with attorneys from Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Texas, Maryland, Florida, New York and California. His product exposure investigations have taken him to the National Archives in Maryland, the Lockheed Shipyard in Seattle, Washington, the home of a retired boiler company executive in Pennsylvania, an abandoned mental institution in Connecticut, the basement of a utility company, and the boiler room of a firehouse in Rhode Island, among other places. Attorney Shaw has lectured on Connecticut Motion Practice and medical malpractice for the National Business Institute.

He first became involved in representing people with asbestos-related diseases in 1986, when he went to work for the firm of Sklarz & Early. Except for a brief hiatus in general practice in 1991-94, he has not looked back. He is licensed in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island, and has dealt with some of the thornier problems to arise for New England plaintiffs in asbestos litigation, including jurisdiction (see Carl Anderson vs. Metropolitan Life, et al.—Rhode Island Supreme Court 1996); workers compensation setoffs (see Reich vs. AC and S, et al.—Connecticut Superior Court 1995); discovery of defendants' documents (see In re Rhode Island Asbestos Litigation—Rhode Island Superior Court 1996); discovery abuse by defendants (see Santos v. AC and S, et al.—Rhode Island Superior Court 1996); and plaintiffs' disclosure of prior settlements (see Beauregard v. AC and S, et al.—Rhode Island Supreme Court 1997). The brief he wrote in 1988 on product exposure for a group of Connecticut cases was used as the form for the materials in a national meeting/seminar of asbestos plaintiffs attorneys from all over the United States.

David A. Shaw graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Law, cum laude in 1985. While in law school, David A. Shaw was an Associate Editor of the Connecticut Law Review, the recipient of the Edward L. Stephenson Memorial Prize and the American Jurisprudence Book Award (both for civil procedure) and was ninth in his class after the first year. In 1984-85 he was a student clerk for outstanding criminal defense attorney Hubert Santos (listed in The Best Lawyers in America) and plaintiffs' attorney (now Judge) A. Susan Peck. Following graduation, he completed a one year judicial clerkship for the Honorable Arthur Latimer, Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.

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