ALAN E. UNTEREINER is an appellate litigator with substantial experience in the areas of product liability, constitutional and criminal law, and Supreme Court practice. Since 1989, he has been in private practice in Washington, D.C., first at Onek, Klein & Farr and then for almost a decade at Mayer, Brown & Platt, where he was a partner in the appellate practice group. In recent years, Alan has handled a wide range of civil and criminal appeals in the federal and state courts. He has represented product manufacturers and other corporations, business organizations and trade groups, municipal governments, and individuals (including criminal defendants and political protesters). Alan's extensive work in the U.S. Supreme Court has included three cases he has argued (and won), the successful representation of parties in many other merits cases (including Barnes v. Gorman, Buckman Co. v. Plaintiffs’ Legal Committee, Rosenberger v. Rector, American Manufacturers Mutual Ins. Co. v. Sullivan, and Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael), and work for amici and parties in scores of other cases at both the petition and merits stages. Alan has written and spoken about Supreme Court practice, federal preemption, and the law of expert witnesses. He is the author of The Preemption Defense in Tort Actions: Law, Strategy and Practice (2008) and the co-author of numerous articles and book chapters, including a chapter on Supreme Court practice in Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts (Robert L. Haig, ed., West Group & ABA Section on Litigation, 1998 & Supp. 2001). Alan received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1984 and his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as a Notes Editor of the Yale Law Journal. In 1988-89, he served as a law clerk to J. Clifford Wallace on the Ninth Circuit.
Alan is a member of the Product Liability Advisory Council and the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court. He has been recognized as a leading appellate practitioner by The Best Lawyers in America and by Chambers USA.
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