Anthony L. Young
Partner
ayoung@kkblaw.com

Mr. Young joined Kleinfeld, Kaplan and Becker, LLP as a partner in March 2003. He began his legal career in 1974 as an associate and then partner at Wald, Harkrader & Ross. In 1986 he became a partner in the firm now known as DLA Piper. He joined Kleinfeld, Kaplan & Becker as a partner in March 2003. Mr. Young graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 1973 and clerked on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. He is the co-author of the 1996 Food and Drug Law Institute book, Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act: A Legislative History and Analysis.

Mr. Young has counseled and represented domestic and foreign manufacturers with respect to compliance and defense of matters under the statutes enforced by the Food and Drug Administration, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency for over twenty-five years. He has a diversified litigation and legislative consumer products practice from a regulatory, litigation and product liability perspective.

Mr. Young represents food and dietary supplement product and ingredient manufacturers, developers and distributors. He also represents prescription drug developers, manufacturers and distributors and medical device developers, manufacturers and distributors. Mr. Young also represents other industries with respect to federal regulatory matters.

Mr. Young serves as Regulatory Counsel to the Pharmaceutical Distributors Association and represents several large secondary prescription drug wholesalers with respect to matters arising under the Prescription Drug Marketing Act and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and state laws implementing those statutes. Mr. Young serves as General Counsel to the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA). Mr. Young is a frequent lecturer at industry meetings on the implementation of DSHEA and counsels a number of dietary supplement companies with respect to compliance with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

Mr. Young counsels companies with respect to reporting and recall obligations under the Consumer Product Safety Act (substantial product hazard reporting) and the Federal Food, Drug, Cosmetic Act (adverse event reporting and voluntary recalls). Mr. Young has represented various regulated companies and trade associations in consumer protection agency proceedings and in litigation.

Mr. Young represents companies in proceedings before the Federal Trade Commission with respect to advertising substantiation and compliance with the Federal Trade Commission Act.

Mr. Young has had extensive litigation experience, including as one of the trial defense counsel in the nine month trial of the Love Canal Landfill governmental litigation, United States v. Hooker Chemical & Plastics Corp., 850 F. Supp. 993 (W.D.N.Y. 1994) successfully defending claims by the State of New York for punitive damages with respect to the company’s former hazardous waste landfill in Niagara Falls, New York.

Education:
B.A. 1965 University of Southern California
J.D. 1973 Georgetown University Law Center
Ltjg. United States Coast Guard (1968-1972)

Professional Affiliations:
Member of the District of Columbia and California Bars

Practice Credentials:
Associate and Partner Wald, Harkrader & Ross, Washington, DC (1974-1985)
Partner Piper Rudnick LLP, Washington, DC (1986-2003)