S. Blake Davis

Complex Commercial Litigation

• Representing a Fortune 100 health care company and pharmacy benefit manager in complex multidistrict litigation.
• Representing a Fortune 500 retailer in putative class action before the Southern District of Florida.
• Representing a Fortune 100 health care company in a provider-payor dispute in the Eastern District of Tennessee.
• Representing a Fortune 100 health care company in a wrongful death lawsuit in the Northern District of Ohio.
• Representing an international real estate development and investment firm in litigation related to commercial real estate project in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
• Representing a concert promotion and touring business in negligence lawsuit related to event at a major entertainment venue in Tampa, FL.
• Represented a Fortune 100 health care company in a multimillion-dollar False Claims Act qui tam lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida.

Appellate Litigation

• Representing a Fortune 100 health care company in a False Claims Act case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
• Represented an interstate pipeline company at the U.S. Supreme Court, successfully opposing a petition for certiorari.
• Represented a Fortune 100 health care company in a Sherman Act case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, securing an affirmance of the district court’s dismissal of the plaintiff’s claims.
• Represented a Virginia inmate on a civil procedure issue of first impression before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, successfully arguing the case and securing a reversal.

Government Investigations

• Representing a health care company in a DOJ False Claims Act investigation related to Medicare billing practices.
• Represented an automotive manufacturing company in a DOJ False Claims Act investigation related to Paycheck Protection Program loans.

Blake Davis focuses his practice on handling complex commercial litigation, appeals, and government investigations. He has represented clients before federal trial and appellate courts in cases involving constitutional law, health care, antitrust, the False Claims Act, employment, and various state tort and contract issues.

Before joining Alston & Bird, Blake served as a judicial law clerk for the Hon. Robert J. Luck of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the Hon. Allen C. Winsor of the Northern District of Florida.

Blake earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from the Wake Forest University School of Law, where he was honored as a member of the Order of the Coif and was the editor in chief of the Wake Forest Law Review. During law school, he also served as a judicial intern for the Hon. Paul M. Newby of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Bar Admissions

• North Carolina
• Florida

Education

• Wake Forest University (J.D., 2022)
• Liberty University (B.S., 2019)

Court Admissions

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida
• U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida