David Applebaum practices class action litigation, complex litigation, and antitrust litigation and counseling. While at Leonard, Street and Deinard, and previously at O�Melveny & Myers LLP in Washington, D.C., David has represented large corporations in class actions and other complex litigations venued in federal and state courts throughout the country. He has also represented clients in antitrust investigations before the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice.
David clerked for the Honorable Thomas A. Wiseman Jr., U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee and Justice Frank F. Drowota III, Tennessee Supreme Court.
Representative experience:
Defending corporations in federal and state court class actions, including
class actions brought against a large student loan company, a mobile
telephone content services provider, one of the largest HMOs, one of the
largest automakers, and a large telecommunications company
Serving as lead counsel for a large financial services company in an out-of-
state bench trial
Serving as lead counsel for a software developer in a copyright license
agreement litigation
Defending a cable company in an antitrust investigation brought by the
Federal Trade Commission
Defending a technology company as a member of the trial and litigation
team in one of the largest International Trade Commission cases, in a
multi-district litigation involving antitrust claims, and before the
Department of Justice in an antitrust investigation
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Contributor and CLE Presenter, Minnesota Business Torts Deskbook, Class
Actions (2008); Contributor, ABA Antitrust Section, 2007 Annual Review of Antitrust Law Developments (2008); Contributor, ABA Antitrust Section, State Antitrust Practice and Statutes (forthcoming 2009); Member of Working Group for ABA�s Comments on the Commission of the European Union Communities� White Paper on Damages Actions for Breach of the EC Antitrust Rules (June 30, 2008); Co-author, �Safer Than a Known Way? A Critique of the FTC�s Report on Competition and Patent Law and Policy,� 18 Antitrust 39 (Spring 2004) (co-authors Ian Simmons and Janusz A. Ordover); Contributor, ABA Antitrust Section, Mergers and Acquisitions: Understanding the Antitrust Issues (2d ed. 2004)
Member of ABA Antitrust Section and a Vice-Chair of the Section�s Civil
Practice and Procedure Committee; Member, Federalist Society |