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Practice Areas: Federal Litigation; Commercial Litigation including Employment; Environmental; Real Estate; Banking; Contracts and Securities

Additional Information: David is the Managing Partner of the firm and chair of the firm's Litigation Practice Group. David practices before state and federal trial and appellate courts in matters involving commercial and contractual disputes, disputes among members of partnerships, professional entities and corporations, matrimonial disputes, securities law, real estate law issues, intellectual property law claims, and constitutional law questions.

David joined the firm in 1980 and became a principal in 1982. Prior to joining the firm, David practiced in Boston at Foley, Hoag & Eliot. He also served for a number of years as counsel to the United States Senate Governmental Affairs Committee chaired by Senator Abraham Ribicoff and on the Senator's personal staff.

David is an active member of the Federal Bar Council, a member of the National Executive Committee of the Anti-Defamation League and its Washington Affairs Chair, a Director of the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, and Chairman of the Town of Hamden Farmington Canal Commission, which is building a linear park on the abandoned Farmington Canal Railway Line. David is past President of the New Haven County Bar Association, past President of the Greater New Haven Jewish Federation and past President of Congregation Mishkan Israel, in Hamden, Connecticut.

David received his B.A. (1971) from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and his J.D. (1973) from New York University School of Law, where he was chosen the outstanding graduate of his law school class and was elected to the Order of the Coif. David is a member of the Connecticut and Massachusetts bars and is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Districts of Connecticut and Massachusetts. He is admitted to practice before the First, Second and Third Circuit Courts of Appeals, the United States Tax Court and the United States Supreme Court. In addition, he has been admitted to handle specific litigation in the federal courts of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Ohio and in the federal bankruptcy courts of New York and New Jersey.