Todd L. Wallen

Todd Wallen is the founding Shareholder at Wallen Kelley, a leading litigation, trial, and appellate boutique law firm based in Florida.

With more than 25 years of experience, Todd represents individuals, public companies, and private corporations nationwide in complex, high-exposure litigation involving product liability, construction defects, crane and construction equipment, pharmaceutical products, toxic torts, automotive and trucking accidents, insurance coverage, and commercial disputes.

A veteran trial lawyer, Todd has tried cases involving automobile accidents, product liability, chemical exposure, carbon monoxide, and first-party homeowners insurance. He has also argued more than eighty appeals in state and federal courts. His 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)
• OTI Fiber, LLC v. CenterState Bank, N.A., 326 So. 3d 743 (Fla. 2d DCA 2021)

Todd earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Middlebury College in 1995 and his Juris Doctor from the University of Miami School of Law in 1998. Following law school, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable David M. Gersten at the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida (1998–1999).

He joined Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP, where he became a partner and spent more than a decade (1999–2013) defending major pharmaceutical companies, tobacco manufacturers, and chemical producers in complex product liability and mass tort litigation. From 2014 to 2016, Todd served as President of The Wallen Law Firm, P.A., and later he was a Founding Partner of Wallen Hernandez Lee Martinez, before co-founding Wallen Kelley.

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