Nevada
Pennsylvania (Inactive)
New Jersey (Retired)
Dual B.A., Philosophy and Psychology, Villanova University
J.D., Villanova University School of Law
LL.M., Dispute Resolution, Straus Institute of Pepperdine University School of Law
David is a Partner with the Firm and has had a distinguished legal career spanning four decades as a civil litigator representing clients ranging from individuals to Fortune 100 companies in the state and federal trial and appellate courts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nevada. He has also provided services as general counsel to business clients, addressing legal issues that arise in the course of business while emphasizing the preservation of economic resources through litigation avoidance. David was nominated in 2012 as a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, co-founded the LCA’s American Academy of Alternative Dispute Resolution, and is a former Chair of the organization.
Since 2008, David has devoted much of his career to the practice, teaching, and promotion of ADR. From 2011-2015, David co-founded and served as the Director of the Conflict Transformation Institute of CoralBridge Partners, LLC, where he provided mediation and conflict-related training and consulting services to organizations and law firms nationwide. After having served the local community as Judge Pro-Tem handling civil matters in the Clark County Justice Court since 2011, David accepted a full-time judicial appointment to the Traffic Division where he served from 2015- 2019. Since 2013, David has been an adjunct professor of law at both the Saltman Center for Dispute Resolution in UNLV’s William S. Boyd School of Law, and the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution in the Pepperdine University School of Law, where he teaches negotiation, mediation, mediation advocacy, and conflict management systems design.
In addition to providing a full spectrum of litigation services in personal injury, business, commercial, and employment matters, David is a skilled mediator able to employ facilitative, evaluative, and transformative techniques to litigated and non-litigated matters. David will also serve as a high conflict group meeting facilitator for corporations, law firms, and small businesses facing strategic and succession planning, contractual issues, and potential dissolutions. Relatedly, he is an experienced conflict coach and consultant with special expertise in organizational conflict management/ litigation prevention systems design.
David offers customized training for organizations, corporations, attorneys, and working professionals. These trainings include conflict management and de-escalation, conflict competent leadership skills, negotiation, mediation skills for working professionals, dealing with high-conflict personalities, basic and advanced mediation, mediation advocacy, decision-making skills, mindfulness for working professionals, and soft skills for attorneys.
David is a 1986 graduate of Villanova University with dual B.A. degrees in Philosophy and Psychology, and earned a J.D. degree from the Villanova University School of Law in 1991. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Law (LL.M.) in Dispute Resolution with a concentration in Mediation, together with Certificates in Dynamic Group Facilitation, Conflict Management Systems Design, Mindfulness in Legal Practice, Settlement Decision Making, and Advanced Mediation Skills from the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution of the Pepperdine University School of Law.
Personal
David loves to spend time with his family. He is an avid swimmer, and also enjoys playing the guitar, teaching, writing, and building models. He never read a Clive Cussler or Michael Creighton book that he didn’t like. As a Philadelphia area native, David is an avid Eagles, Phillies, Flyers, and 76ers fan, though he also supports the Raiders, Golden Knights, and the San Diego Padres.
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