David W. Corneil serves as a Partner in the Portland office of GRSM. Mr. Corneil's practice focuses on the defense of drug, medical device, and consumer product manufacturers in products liability claims. He also has extensive experience litigating business and contract disputes, class actions, toxic tort and environmental actions, trade secrets claims, and consumer warranty matters. David navigates corporate clients of all sizes through every aspect of litigation from pre-litigation claims through trial.
- Served as second chair for several trials in California Superior Court.
- Secured dismissal in favor of clients through motions for summary judgment and other dispositive motions in dozens of high-stakes matters.
- Harboring WikiLeaks: Comparing Swedish and American Press Freedom in the Digital Age, California Western International Law Journal, 41 Cal. W. Int’l L. J. 477 (2011).
- The Streisand Effect, WikiLeaks, and Social Media, presented at the 30th annual American Bar Association Forum on Communications Law.
- Banning Sharia: The U.S. Push to Keep Islamic Law Out of Its Courts, presented at the Transnational Legal Scholars Workshop on Global Trends in Law and Religion, University of Lucerne, Switzerland.
Admissions
- Oregon
- Washington
- California
- U.S. District Court, Southern, Central, and Northern Districts of California
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Education
- J.D., cum laude, California Western School of Law, 2012
- Attended on Academic Scholarship
- Editor of California Western Law Review and California Western International Law Journal
- Clinic Student of California Innocence Project
- M.A., summa cum laude, History, University of Linköping, 2007
- Jonsson Family Scholarship Recipient
- B.A., History and Swedish, University of Washington, 2006
- Dean’s list
Languages
- Swedish