David Haworth
USA Guide 2024
Band 2 : Environment
Band 2
About
Provided by David Haworth
Practice Areas
David A. Haworth focuses on environmental, products liability/toxic tort, commercial, construction, and real estate litigation and counseling. His significant environmental litigation experience includes prosecuting and defending remediation and natural resource damage claims in New Jersey and nationally under CERCLA/Superfund, the New Jersey Spill Act, the New Jersey Industrial Sites Recovery Act, and other statutes and common law.
He defends clients in a broad range of environmental issues, including PFAS-related claims. He has extensive experience with multi-party cost allocations and regularly serves as joint or common counsel for groups of parties in environmental actions.
David’s product liability and toxic tort litigation experience spans a wide variety of personal injury and property damage claims arising from environmental and workplace exposure to chemicals, from allegedly defective products and from contaminated real estate.
As a commercial litigator, David has extensive experience with disputes involving contractual breaches and general commercial issues; construction defects, liens, and sureties; builder performance; product liability; and consumer fraud litigation. He is also experienced in the litigation of real estate, engineering, and construction claims involving owners, developers, residential builders, and community associations and their professionals.
Career
Admissions:
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Professional Memberships
American Bar Association, member, Franchise Forum
New Jersey State Bar Association, member, Construction Law Section
Camden County Bar Association
Supreme Court of New Jersey, past member, District IV Ethics Committee
Personal
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School of Law-Camden (J.D. 1995)
Rutgers University (M.B.A. 1994)
The College of William and Mary (B.A. 1991)
Chambers Review
USA
David Haworth of Ballard Spahr LLP defends clients in a range of environmental matters. He is particularly noted for his litigation expertise in product liability, toxic tort and remediation claims.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"David is exceptional. He is very bright, extremely detail-oriented and gets to the heart of the matter."
"He is excellent to deal with - he's very cooperative, adaptable and has a great hold on the technical issues."
"David is exceptional. He is very bright, extremely detail-oriented and gets to the heart of the matter."
"He is excellent to deal with - he's very cooperative, adaptable and has a great hold on the technical issues."