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Derek Stikeleather is a partner with Goodell DeVries. He practices primarily in the areas of appellate advocacy and complex litigation with an emphasis on product liability, personal injury, and class action defense. Derek has represented several medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers, including Pfizer, DENTSPLY International, Inc., DePuy Orthopaedics, and Hanger Prosthetics & Orthotics in federal and state court proceedings. A dedicated writer, he has briefed and argued appeals on behalf of physicians and several prominent Maryland and D.C. hospitals before the Court of Appeals of Maryland, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Derek has also successfully argued in the California Court of Appeal, New York's Appellate Division (First Department), and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Derek was part of the Goodell DeVries team that persuaded the Maryland Court of Appeals to formally recognize that the evolution of Maryland evidence law warranted formal adoption of the Daubert standard and retirement of the Frye-Reed test. The ruling sets the threshold that proposed expert witnesses must meet under Rule 5-702 in any civil or criminal proceeding in Maryland where the rules of evidence apply.
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