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The National Center for State Courts
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The National Center for State Courts
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David Craig Landin Joins Lawyers Committee
 of National Court Reform Organization

Williamsburg, VA (March 8, 2004) – David Craig Landin, partner with Hunton & Williams in Richmond, Va., has joined the National Center for State Courts’ Lawyers Committee, which involves prominent practicing attorneys in the National Center’s work and programs. Committee members serve in a leadership role with a commitment to support the National Center’s mission, to actively participate in outreach to the bar and the legal community, and to encourage support for the National Center’s programs and initiatives. Inaugural meetings were held recently in Washington, D.C. and in San Francisco in conjunction with the midyear meeting of the Conference of Chief Justices.

Landin’s practice focuses on product liability, toxic tort, environmental liability and mass tort litigation.  He serves as national coordinating and trial counsel in a variety of litigation settings.

Landin is a past-president of the Virginia Bar Association; past-president of the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys and past-president of the Virginia Law Foundation.  In addition to his work with the National Center, he is the current Chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Federal Judicial Improvements.  He is a recipient of the Exceptional Performance Award, Defense Research Institute and was elected a Fellow of the Virginia Law Foundation.  Landin was named to The Best Lawyers in America, Seaview/Putnam Press, beginning in 1987 and voted among “The Legal Elite,” Virginia’s Top Lawyers in Litigation, Virginia Business (2000, 2001, 2002).

Landin lectured at the University of Virginia School of Law as an adjunct professor on Trial Advocacy from 1978-84 and on Civil Litigation, Principles and Practice in 1995-96. 

The National Center for State Courts, headquartered in Williamsburg, Va., is a non-profit court reform organization dedicated to improving the administration of justice by providing leadership and service to the state courts. The National Center, founded in 1971 by the Conference of Chief Justices and former Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, provides education, training, and technology, management, and research services to the nation’s state courts. The National Center also is taking the lead on several key issues facing the justice system. For example, it has established a major civil justice initiative, a multi-year project that is examining best practices in civil case management and how complex litigation procedures can be improved. Other national initiatives being driven by the National Center include judicial selection reform and increasing citizen participation in jury service.

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