Douglass A. Kreis
Douglass A. Kreis received a B.A. degree from Mercer University - with a Major in Political Science and Minor in English, attending under a four year academic/athletic scholarship, and a Juris Doctorate from Cumberland School of Law. While in law school, Mr. Kreis earned the distinction as Cumberland's 1997 National Environmental/Toxic Tort Law Conference Representative (Washington, D.C.). After gaining significant trial advocacy and legal briefing experience through Cumberland's Trial Advocacy Program/Moot Court Competitions, Mr. Kreis accepted a prestigious clerkship with Alabama Supreme Court Justice, Michael Bolin.
Mr. Kreis practices exclusively within the areas of medical device and pharmaceutical mass tort litigation. Mr. Kreis has successfully represented thousands of clients in national litigation over the past 15 years, including cases involving the following products: medical devices: Smith & Nephew's Profix & Genesis Knees; Stryker Howmedica's Trident Hips; Zimmer's Durom Hips; Bausch & Lomb and American Medical Systems' Contact Lens Solutions; Transvaginal Mesh Systems; and Davol & CR Bard's Kugel Hernia Mesh – pharmaceutical drugs: Wyeth's Diet Drug FenPhen (Valvular Heart Disease & Primary Pulmonary Hypertension); Bayer's drug Baycol (Rhabdomyolysis); Ephedra Dietary Supplements (Heart Attack & Stroke Litigation); and GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia. Today, Mr. Kreis is focused on the following matters: Metal Hip Litigation (DePuy ASR & Pinnacle; Biomet Magnum; Wright Conserv & Profemur); Metal Knee Litigation (Zimmer NexGen Litigation); and Transvaginal Mesh Litigation. Mr. Kreis is a regular speaker with annual engagements on panels throughout the country during which he addresses the current status of, and interplay between, science and law in the context of the epidemiology of medical devices; the potential modes of failure (general and specific causation); and the pathology, histology and presentation of related injuries.
Mr. Kreis is admitted to all Florida State Courts, the Northern, Middle and Southern District Courts of the United States; the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals; District Court of Colorado and the Western District of Michigan. Additionally, Mr. Kreis has filed pro hoc vice applications and litigated in courts throughout the Country including: Alabama; California; Georgia; Indiana; Illinois; Kentucky; Massachusetts; Mississippi; Minnesota; New Jersey; New York; and Pennsylvania. Mr. Kreis is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Association for Justice (Co-Chair of Metal on Metal Hip Litigation); Former President of the First Circuit Trial Lawyers Association; and the Escambia-Santa Rosa County Bar Associations.
