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David Ira Rosenbaum is a partner to the law firm of Rawle and Henderson in the Philadelphia office. Mr. Rosenbaum has extensive experience litigating complex product liability and commercial matters and holds an appointment an Adjunct Professor of Product Liability Law at Temple University's School of Law. Mr. Rosenbaum also has an active and growing corporate transactional practice. Mr. Rosenbaum regularly represents corporate clients in complex commercial matters involving breach of contract, restrictive covenants, commercial mortgages/personal guarantees, antitrust, copyright/trademark violations, and breach of fiduciary duty disputes. Mr. Rosenbaum’s commercial litigation accomplishments and successes include: Securing defense verdict in breach of consulting services contract case; Defeating nationwide class certification in alleged consumer fraud case against U.S. distributor of luxury automobiles; Negotiating settlement of restrictive covenant litigation facilitating continued operation of client’s ongoing business; Serving as lead litigator for the successful gubernatorial campaign of the Honorable Edward G. Rendell in election-day disputes during both the primary and general election in the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas; Defeating federal court motion to dismiss alter ego/piercing corporate veil claims; Negotiating favorable forebearance agreement to resolve commercial mortgage/personal guaranty dispute. Throughout his career, Mr. Rosenbaum has vigorously defended manufacturers in a wide variety of product liability lawsuits including those brought by : drivers and passengers of automobiles injured or disfigured by allegedly defective air bag systems or purported sudden accelerations; an amusement park patron claiming injuries from supposed design flaws in roller coaster; a catastrophically burned child allegedly injured by inadequately childproofed butane lighter; a driver claiming defectively designed ingress/egress systems in tractor trailer; forklift operators allegedly injured because of the absence of automatic reverse alarms, grounding straps or guarding; consumers claiming injuries due to allegedly defective manufacturing of breakfast cereal. Mr. Rosenbaum has also represented several corporate clients involved in managing nationwide product recalls and in formulating product warnings and instructions and in taking other steps to minimize the risk of product related injuries and lawsuits. Mr. Rosenbaum’s emerging transactional practice has included negotiating and drafting. | 