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DAVID SHANEYFELT Practice Details: David A. Shaneyfelt is Senior Counsel at Wood & Bender LLP, one of the nation's leading law firms specializing in insurance policy enforcement. He is a former trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., with extensive background in complex civil litigation. Background and Accomplishments: Shaneyfelt has represented numerous private and public entities in coverage disputes against insurance carriers and joint powers agencies. He recently won a binding arbitration hearing against the London and Bermuda reinsurance markets on a significant coverage dispute involving the 2003 California wildfires. He also represents two major California municipalities in separate challenges regarding policy benefits, one of which arises under comprehensive litigation involving a city's affordable housing program, which he also defends. He prevailed against the carriers of another California municipality in a coverage matter before the court of appeal. At the Department of Justice, Shaneyfelt assisted in implementing the Federal civilian drug testing program covering more than one million employees throughout the Federal workforce, including at the FBI, DEA, Bureau of Prisons, Secret Service, and Treasury Department. He also assisted in the successful defense to the numerous Constitutional challenges brought against that program. He also handled litigation involving the wind-up of lengthy Title VII class action suits against both the Department of Agriculture and the Small Business Administration. He left Washington, D.C., to engage in private practice in Chicago, where he was involved in a wide-array of complex state and Federal litigation, including employment law, and at the trial and appellate levels. In 1997, he joined his alma mater, Thomas Aquinas College, where he worked as in-house counsel. He has practiced before the Northern District of California, Western District of Washington, Southern District of Mississippi, District of Hawaii, Northern District of Illinois, Central District of Illinois, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeal, U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of three state bars: California, Illinois, and Oregon (as an inactive member). Memberships: Association for Conflict Resolution Education: Shaneyfelt obtained his B.A. from Thomas Aquinas College in 1981, and his J.D. from Willamette College of Law in 1984, where he was Associate Editor of the Law Review. Admissions: California Illinois Oregon(inactive) Ninth Circuit Seventh Circuit Supreme Court Download Bio | 