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David B. MuellerPartner
Cassidy & Mueller
323 Commerce Bank Building, 416 Main Street
Peoria, Illinois
61602
(Peoria Co.)
Telephone: 309-676-0591
Fax: 309-676-8036
http://www.cassidymueller.com
Email: Contact via email
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Visibility Rankings  | | #120 out of 686 lawyers in Peoria, Illinois | | #141,885 out of 890,243 total lawyers Overall |
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| Practice Areas | Civil Tort Litigation; Liability Insurance Coverage Litigation; Product Liability Litigation; Medical Malpractice Litigation; Construction Related Injury Litigation; Estate and Trust Litigation; Drug and Medical Device Litigation; State and Federal Appellate Practice | | | Peer Review Rating | AV
Rated.
What's this? | | | Education | University of Michigan, LL.B., 1966, University of Oklahoma, B.A., 1963 | | | Admitted | 1966, Illinois | |
| Memberships | Peoria County (First Vice President, 2000-2001; President, 2001-2002), Illinois State (Secretary, Tort Law Section, 1977-1979) and American Bar Associations; ISBA Standing Committee on Legal Education, Admission and Competence (1984-1987); ISBA Civil Practice and Procedure Counsel (Associate Member, 1985-1986); Defense Research Institute; Charter Fellow: Illinois State Bar Foundation; Peoria County Bar Foundation. | | | Born | Denver, Colorado, July 28, 1941 | | | Biography | Phi Delta Phi. Master, Secretary, Counselor and President, Peoria Chapter of American Inns of Court. Master and Secretary, 1989-1990, Counselor, 1990-1991, President, 1991-1992, Abraham Lincoln Inns of Court. Editor, Tort Trends Newsletter, 1976-1979. Author: "Liability to the Public Servant-A Dividend Approach To Duty," 1980 Issue of the Illinois Bar Journal; "Timely Disclosure of Expert Witnesses-Analysis of Supreme Court Rule 220," July, 1986 Issue of the Illinois Bar Journal; "The New Discovery Rules: Reshaping the Landscape for Illinois Litigators," December 1995 Issue of the Illinois Bar Journal; "Pleading Jurisdiction, Removals, Remand and Other Pre-Trial Traps;" "ISBA LAW ED Publication for Federal Rules Seminar," April 18, 2008; co-authored with Robert Pisani, "Product Standards and Preemption: Making Government Work for You," IDC Quarterly, Third Quarter, 2000, Vol. 10; "Comparative Fault in Strict Liability Cases Under Section 2-1116 of the Code of Civil Procedure," IDC Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 4, 4th Quarter 1992; "Evolution of the Learned Intermediary Doctrine in Illinois," IDC Quarterly, Third Quarter, 2002, Vol. 12, No. 3; "Complexities In Construction Negligence Litigation," IDC Quarterly 2003, Vol. 13, No. 3; "Recent Developments in Product Liability Law," IDC Quarterly 2003, Vol. 14, No. 2; "Recent Developments In Construction Negligence: An Update Of Complexities in Construction Negligence Litigation," IDC Quarterly 2003, Vol. 14, No. 2; "Premises Liability Exposure in Construction Injury Cases," IDC Quarterly 2005, Vol. 15, No. 1; "Forfeiture of Workers' Compensation Lien: Borrowman v. Prastein, Forewarned is Forearmed," IDC Quarterly 2005, Vol. 15, No. 3; "Coverage for Kotecki Waivers: Finally an Answer," IDC Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 2; "Arthur v. Catour In the World of Compensatory Damage: A Consideration of Arthur v. Catour in the Context of its Ancestors and its Progeny," IDC Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 3; "Continuing Developments in Construction Negligence: A Further Update of Complexities in Construction Negligence Litigation," IDC Quarterly 2008; "Ins and Outs Of Amended Section 2-1117," presented IDC Trial Tactics Seminar, Feb. 2004; "Spoliation Of Evidence An Intellectual Quagmire," IDC Newsletter, December, 2002; "Revised Federal Discovery Rules and Related Practice in the Central District of Illinois," 1995; "Winning Pretrial Preparation in the New World of Illinois Civil Litigation," 1995; "Duty to Settle-Exhaustion," Chapter IICLE 2002 and 2008 Commercial and Professional Liability Insurance; "Observations On Jury Selection From The Defense Perspective," IICLE Effective Illinois Jury Selection, Spring, 2003; "Moderator, Proving and Disproving Damages in Personal Injury Cases," November 28, 2007; "Has the General Assembly Expanded the Concept of 'Contributory Fault' in Strict Tort Liability Actions? A Defendant's Perspective," ISBA Trial Briefs, December 1992. Seminars attended: "Illinois Defense Counsel Third Annual Fall Seminar;" "Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel Ninth Annual Fall Seminar;" "IDC Spring Tactics Seminar," February 28, 2004; "IDC Spring Defense Tactics Seminar," March 10, 2006. Lecturer: "What Will Be The Effect of the New Medical Malpractice Litigation?" Peoria County Bar Association, CLE 2006; "Recovering Medical Bills in Tort Claims," Peoria County Bar Association, CLE 2008. Instructor, North Central Regional Trial Academy, 2004—. Advisory Member on Discovery Rules, Illinois Judicial Conference, 1993—. Associate Member, Civil Practice and Procedure Counsel. Chairman, Federal Civil Justice Reform Act Committee for the Central District of Illinois. Contributing Drafter, Product Liability Tort Reform bill with testimony before the State Senate and House Judiciary Committee, 1993. Selected Illinois Leading Lawyers Network. Member, Illinois Super Lawyers. Charter Member, Litigation Counsel of America. Co-Chairman, Supreme Court Committee to Revise the Rules of Discovery, 1983-1993. Member: Joint Judicial Conference and Illinois Rules Committee, 1995; Special Discovery Rules Drafting Committee, 1995; Illinois Supreme Court Committee on Jury Instructions in Civil Cases, 1995—. Chairman, Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Committee for the Central District of Illinois, 1991-1993. | | | Reported Cases | Coney v. JLG Industries, Inc., 97 Ill.2d 104 (1983); Prewein v. Caterpillar Tractor Co., 108 Ill.2d 141 (1985); J.L. Simmons Co., Inc. ex rel. Hartford v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., 108 Ill.2d 106 (1985); Clarkson v. Wright, 108 Ill.2d 129 (1985); Dukes v. J.L. Case Co., 118 Ill.2d 447 (1987); Kirk v. Michael Reese Hospital, et al., 117 Ill.2d 507 (1987); Dunn v. B & O Railroad Co., 127 Ill.2d 350 (1989); Wilsey v. Eddingfield, 780 F.2d 614 (7th Cir. 1986); Hartford Insurance Group v. Gulf Insurance, 837 F.2d 767 (7th Cir. 1988); Kraciun, et al. v. Garlock Inc., et al., 895 F.2d 444 (8th Cir. 1990); Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. O'Brien, 5 F. 3d 1117 (7th Cir. 1993); Schrock v. Shoemaker, 159 Ill.2d 533 (1994); N.C. Illinois Trust Co. v. Firt Illini Bancorp, 323 Ill.App.3d 254 (2001); Amicus Briefs - Clarkson v. Wright, 108 Ill.2d 129 (1985); Dukes v. J.L. Case Co., 118 Ill.2d 447 (1987); Kirk v. Michael Reese Hospital, 117 Ill.2d 507 (1987); Dunn v. B&O Ry. Co., 127 Ill.2d 350 (1989); Blue v. Environmental Engineering, Inc.," 215 Ill.2d 366 (2005); Wills v. Foster, 225 Ill.2d 679 (2007); Springer v. Durflinger, 518 F.3d 479 (2008). | | | ISLN | 902319231 | |
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