David Haworth > Ballard Spahr LLP > New Jersey, United States > Lawyer Profile

David A. Haworth focuses on environmental, products liability/toxic tort, commercial, construction, and real estate litigation and counseling. His significant environmental litigation experience includes prosecuting and defending remediation and natural resource damage claims in New Jersey and nationally under CERCLA/Superfund, the New Jersey Spill Act, the New Jersey Industrial Sites Recovery Act, and other statutes and common law.

He defends clients in a broad range of environmental issues, including PFAS-related claims. He has extensive experience with multi-party cost allocations and regularly serves as joint or common counsel for groups of parties in environmental actions.

David’s product liability and toxic tort litigation experience spans a wide variety of personal injury and property damage claims arising from environmental and workplace exposure to chemicals, from allegedly defective products and from contaminated real estate.

As a commercial litigator, David has extensive experience with disputes involving contractual breaches and general commercial issues; construction defects, liens, and sureties; builder performance; product liability; and consumer fraud litigation. He is also experienced in the litigation of real estate, engineering, and construction claims involving owners, developers, residential builders, and community associations and their professionals.

Admissions

American Bar Association, member, Franchise Forum

New Jersey State Bar Association, member, Construction Law Section

Camden County Bar Association

Supreme Court of New Jersey, past member, District IV Ethics Committee

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School of Law-Camden (J.D. 1995)

Rutgers University (M.B.A. 1994)

The College of William and Mary (B.A. 1991)