David Strouss

David C. Strouss is a Thornton Law Firm partner who has been a member of the Massachusetts bar since 1985. He is an honors graduate of Brown University and a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law. He served as Special Assistant Attorney General representing the Commonwealth from 1995 through 1999 in the tobacco litigation. Strouss heads the firm's birth defect litigation, focusing on catastrophic birth defects caused by parental occupational exposure in semiconductor manufacturing, agriculture, and related industries. He prosecuted and successfully resolved some of the country's first cases involving birth defects caused by glycol ethers and other solvents in the semiconductor industry and currently represents over 150 plaintiffs with birth defects in the United States and South America. He was named Environmental Litigation (Toxic) Lawyer of the Year in 2017 by Lawyer Monthly magazine and one of the Top 100 Civil Trial Lawyers in Massachusetts by the National Trial Lawyers.