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Daniel Auten

Daniel Auten focuses his practice on complex product liability and mass tort litigation across a variety of industries.

Daniel represents clients in all stages of litigation, including discovery, witness preparation, Daubert and other dispositive motions, and witness examinations. He also advises a broad range of pharmaceutical and consumer products companies on product liability risks, including liability risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Daniel’s pro bono work includes the successful litigation to defend voting rights in the 2020 Presidential Election, securing asylum for a Salvadoran family threatened by MS-13, and negotiating the release of a mentally ill Virginia inmate into the custody of a mental hospital to receive urgently needed treatment.

Product liability considerations are not likely the first concerns that spring to mind for the many companies working to develop digital health countermeasures and other products related to COVID-19.  Yet even while putting together solutions on an accelerated timeline, there are some straightforward actions that companies can take that may
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