Todd Wallen

Todd Wallen is the founding Shareholder at Wallen Kelley. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Middlebury College in 1995 and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami School of Law in 1998. Following law school, Todd clerked for the Honorable David M. Gersten at the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida before joining a large product liability defense firm, where he represented pharmaceutical companies, tobacco companies, and chemical manufacturers in high-stakes personal injury and mass tort litigation.

Todd has over 25 years of experience representing individuals, public companies, and private companies nationwide in complex high-exposure lawsuits involving: construction defects, crane and construction equipment, product liability, pharmaceutical products, toxic torts, automotive and trucking accidents, insurance coverage, and commercial litigation. He is a veteran trial lawyer, who has tried automobile accident cases, product liability cases, chemical exposure cases, carbon monoxide cases, and first-party homeowners insurance cases. He has also argued more than eighty appeals in state and federal courts; representative appellate matters include:

• Marco Crane & Rigging Co. v. Greenfield Prods., LLC, 21-15175, 2022 WL 3031320 (9th Cir. 2022)
• East Coast Elec. v. Dunn, 979 So. 2d 1018 (Fla. 3d DCA 2008)
• Manning v. Sunbelt Rentals, Inc., 208 So. 3d 708 (Fla. 2d DCA 2016)
• Harris v. Sunbelt Rentals, 359 So. 3d 823 (Fla. 3d DCA 2023)
• Van Dyke v. Tillman, 347 So. 3d 544 (Fla. 1st DCA 2022)
• E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. v. Melvin Piedmont Nursery, 971 So. 2d 897 (Fla. 3d DCA 2007)
• Mendez v. Jarden Corp., 503 F. App’x 930 (11th Cir. 2013)
• 5350 Park, LLC v. Grycon LLC., No. 3D22-1632, 2024 WL 1080582 (Fla. 3d DCA March 13, 2024)
• Deutsche Bank Tr. Co. Americas v. Beauvais, 188 So. 3d 938 (Fla. 3d DCA 2016)
• OTI Fiber, LLC v. CenterState Bank, N.A., 326 So. 3d 743 (Fla. 2d DCA 2021)

Todd is admitted to practice in Florida, and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern District of Florida, the United States Circuit Court for the Ninth Circuit, United States Circuit Court for the Eleventh Circuit, and in the United States Circuit Court for the Federal Circuit.

Past Positions:

Third District Court of Appeal of Florida – Law Clerk for Hon. David M. Gersten (1998-99)
Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP – Partner (1999 – 2013)
The Wallen Law Firm, P.A. – President (2014-16)
Wallen Hernandez Lee Martinez – Founding Partner (2016-18)

Education:

Middlebury College, B.A. Economics, 1995
University of Miami School of Law, J.D., 1998