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David is a Partner, a member of the firm’s Management Group and serves as the managing partner for the firm’s Toledo office. His national practice focuses on civil defense litigation with particular experience in the defense of trucking and transportation claims, professional liability matters, employment practices liability issues, and directors and officers liability claims. David represents a diverse national client base in complex civil litigation, class action disputes and catastrophic injury cases. As a trial attorney, he is called upon by clients during their most difficult times and has served as lead counsel in litigation and arbitration disputes in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas. He regularly represents clients in state and federal court, as well as arbitration before the American Arbitration Association (AAA).

David is also the Chairperson of the firm’s Oil, Natural Gas, and Energy practice group. He has extensive experience handling complex oil, gas, and real estate litigation involving land use, lease rights, royalty litigation, and other real estate title issues. David is frequently asked by clients across the State of Ohio to solve their most challenging oil, gas and land use issues.

Since 2014, David’s has been recognized as a “Rising Star” by Ohio Super Lawyers Magazine, a recognition given to less than 2.5% of lawyers in the State of Ohio. David has also been selected as “Who’s Who in Area Law” by the Toledo Business Journal. For seven years, David served as an adjunct instructor at the University of Toledo College of Law teaching courses on trial advocacy and oil and gas law.

David graduated from Wilmington College with a degree in criminal justice and a minor in accounting. He also played four years of Division III college basketball. Prior to becoming a lawyer, David worked as a contract special investigator for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, conducting national security background investigations in the Washington D.C. area. In 2006, David returned to Ohio and attended the University of Toledo College of Law, where he earned his Juris Doctor degree in 2009 and was a member of the Trial Advocacy Program. In his free time, David enjoys spending time on his family’s farm.

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