Types of cases

• Injuries from automobile defects
• Aviation accidents
• Injuries from products
• Farm injuries

Donald Slavik is a lawyer with an engineering degree and professional engineering license. Mr. Slavik handles cases throughout the United States, with a focus on products liability. He has extensive experience with cases involving electrical products, aircraft, automobiles, farm equipment, industrial machinery and utility negligence. His automobile defects cases include those involving seat belt failures, handling defects, seat design, roof crush in rollover accidents, air bags and defects in child car seats. Mr. Slavik represents injured people throughout the United States. He is listed in the "Best Lawyers in America."

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BORN

Milwaukee, WI- 1956

ADMITTED TO BAR

1981Wisconsin and U.S. District Courts, Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin
2002Texas Courts
2002Colorado and U.S. District Courts, District of Colorado
2004Washington Courts

EDUCATION

1981University of Wisconsin-Madison, J.D.
1978University of Wisconsin-Madison, B.S.N.E., with honors, Member of Phi Eta Sigma.

MEMBERSHIPS

State Bars of Wisconsin, Texas, Washington and Colorado; American and Milwaukee Associations; The American Association for Justice (AAJ); The Society of Automotive Engineers; The Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine; American Society for Testing and Materials; Attorneys Information Exchange Group, Western Trial Lawyers, Texas Trial Lawyers.

LEADERSHIP POSITIONS

AAJ – Board of Governors; Chairman of Computers and Law Office Technology Committee; past Trustee, National College of Advocacy; past chair of its Products Liability Section; Attorneys Information Exchange Group - Immediate Past President, Board of Directors, Executive Committee, 1989 to date; Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine – Scientific Program Committee, 1995-2001; Western Trial Lawyers Association - President-Elect, will assume presidency in June 2006 for a one year term; Wisconsin Academy of Trial Lawyers – past member of Board of Directors; University of Wisconsin – lectured to engineering extension classes; has given numerous presentations to various state bar and trial lawyer associations; has made presentations to the Society for Automotive Engineers and other technical organizations.

PUBLICATIONS

Author: "Defective Seat Belts," TRIAL Magazine, Feb. 1988; "Motor Vehicle Restraints for Young and Old," TRIAL Magazine, May 1997; "Child Restraint System Defects," TRIAL Magazine, Feb. 2000; "Manufacturing Responsibility," Recovery, Fall 1996; "Cervical Distraction Injuries to Children," SAE 973302, 1997. Co-author: "Seat Belt Litigation," TRIAL Magazine, Feb. 1993; "Computer Network Insecurity," TRIAL Magazine, Mar. 1995, "Crashworthiness," AAJ Press, 1989; "Civil Trial Practice," Lawyers and Judges Publishing, 2000; "Products Liability Litigation: Product Studies," AAJ Press, 1996; "AAJ’s Litigating Tort Cases," AAJ Press, 2003; "Handling Motor Vehicle Accident Cases," West Publishing, 2003.

LOCATION

Mr. Slavik practices in the Milwaukee office.

EMAIL

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