David

R.

Geiger

David Geiger is Director of Legal Programs at the Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc., responsible for its amicus program which files briefs in courts across the country, including the United States Supreme Court, seeking fairness and balance in the law as it affects product manufacturers and suppliers.  He is a retired partner of Foley Hoag LLP, where he served from 1989 to 1996 as Deputy Chair and then Chair of the firm's Litigation Department, and from 1989 to 2025 as chair of the firm’s Product Liability and Complex Tort Practice Group.

While at Foley Hoag, Mr. Geiger represented business clients in many types of disputes, notably pharmaceutical and medical device product liability, toxic torts, medical and genetics negligence, breach of privacy, class actions, multidistrict litigation, other mass torts, governmental actions, insurance litigation, breaches of contract, allegations of fraud and unfair trade practices, commercial warranty disputes and intellectual property controversies.

Mr. Geiger handled cases, including individual suits, class actions, mass torts and governmental cost recovery actions, in the state and federal courts in Massachusetts and throughout the country. He also  supervised or authored over 100 amicus briefs on important product liability, evidentiary and procedural issues, including preemption, personal jurisdiction, class certification and punitive damages, in a variety of courts, including over 30 in the United States Supreme Court.

EDUCATION: Dickinson College, B.S. '77 summa cum laude; Harvard Law School, J.D. '80 magna cum laude.