Ralph D. Davis

Illinois Bar, 1987

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 1996

U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois, 1997

U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois, 2006

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana, 1994

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 1996

U.S. Supreme Court, 2002

AB, The University of Chicago, 1971

MBA, Chicago Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago, 1972

JD, Northwestern University School of Law, 1987

Ralph Davis Law, Peoria, Illinois, owner, 2013 to present

Janssen Law Center, Peoria, Illinois, associate, 1997 to 2013

Solo Consultant and Attorney, Chicago, Illinois 1992 to 1997

Illinois Institute of Technology, Stuart School of Business, Lecturer of Marketing and Law, Director of the Executive MBA and Downtown MBA Programs, Director of the JD/MBA Program, 1987 to 1992

Prior Experience is unrelated to Law

Holmes/Cardozo Award, American Business Law Association, 1988

Best Article of the Year, American Business Law Association, 1990

Top 100 Trial Lawyers of Illinois, 2010 through 2015

Top 10 Illinois Lawyers, National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys, 2014

Super Lawyers of Illinois, 2005-2016

Abraham Lincoln Inn of Court

American Association for Justice

Chicago Bar Association

Fulton County Bar Association (past president)

Illinois State Bar Association

Illinois Trial Lawyers Association

National Trial Lawyers Association

Peoria County Bar Association

Seventh Circuit Bar Association

Contemporary Business Law and the Legal Environment, McGraw-Hill, New York (5th Ed.) 1994, Co-Author, Comprehensive Textbook, 1407 pages

Advertising Bans Vulnerable to Constitutional and Statutory Challenges, Legal Backgrounder, Washington Legal Foundation, Vol. 10, No. 21, June 1995

New Prohibitionism on Trial; Judicial Approval of Baltimore’s Ad Ban Should Be Reversed, Legal Backgrounder, Washington Legal Foundation, Vol. 9, No,. 13, April 1994

An Alternative Liability Theory for Deceptive Advertising, American Business Law Association Conference, 1989

Attitudes and Opinion on Marketing Legal Services: A Survey of Lawyers in Private Practice in Chicago, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Vol. 2, pp. 743-59, 1989, Co-Author

Different Treatment of Marketing and Design Defects in Pure Risk-Utility Balancing: Who’s the Villain?, American Business Law Journal, Vol. 27, pp. 41-62, 1989

New Censors in the Academy: Two Approaches to Curb Their Influence, Science, Technology and Human Values, Vol. 13, No. 1&2, pp. 64-74, 1988

The New FDA Position of Health-Related Messages for Food Products and Constitutionally Protected Speech, Food Drug Cosmetic Law Journal, Vol. 42, pp. 365-39, 1987

Identifying Uses of Custom Consumer Research in Products Liability, Journal of Products Liability, Vol. 9, pp. 329-59, 1986

False Teeth to a Chicken: Products, Advertising & You, 218 pages, Trade Book, International Publishing Corporation, Chicago, IL  1991