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Experience
Dave focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation. He has successfully represented both multinational corporations and smaller companies in a wide range of disputes involving lender notification requirements, non-competition agreements and trade secrets, unemployment taxation, distribution agreements, products liability and general contract claims. He has also represented individuals in disputes involving enforcement of purchase and sale agreements and fiduciary claims against trustees and business partners. He has also represented both individuals and corporations in white collar criminal investigations. Dave brings a creative approach to resolving difficult legal problems in a cost-efficient manner. He has appeared frequently before state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels as well as before private dispute resolution forums. Before joining Pierce Atwood in 2001, Dave was a litigation associate at Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP in Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to law school, he worked as a reporter for a newspaper in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Dave was born in Rochester, New Hampshire and grew up in the Seacoast area.
Education
Dave received a B.A. in Political Science (Distinction in Major) from Yale University (1988) and a J.D. summa cum laude from Boston College (1995), where he served as Executive Editor of the Law Review and was awarded the West Outstanding Scholarship Average Award. Following law school, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Melvin Brunetti of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Bar Admissions
Dave is admitted to practice in Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, U.S. District Court, District of New Hampshire, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, and U.S. District Court, District of Maine.
Practice Areas
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