About

David graduated from Cornell University in 1971 and received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1976. He began his career as a litigator in private practice specializing in property issues, such as landlord-tenant conflicts, condominium conversations, zoning and eminent domain.

After five years, David became a full-time law school professor, teaching Property, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Professional Responsibility (legal ethics), and Remedies. He taught for four years at the University of Montana Law School; two years at Notre Dame; and two at the Law School of the University of Maine in Portland.

Pursuing interests developed in academia, David worked first for the Vera Institute of Justice, a foundation conducting projects in criminal law reform, drug treatment, and alternatives to imprisonment for non-violent offenders. David began doing related work for the Kings County (Brooklyn) District Attorney’s office, the third-largest prosecutor’s office in the country, with some 600 lawyers and an equal number of support staff. He quickly became Deputy Counsel to the District Attorney, as well as EEO officer. Eight years in these capacities gave David extensive experience in public administration, discrimination law, and labor law in a union and civil service environment.

Wishing to increase his litigation experience, David became an Assistant Attorney General for the State of New York under Eliot Spitzer. As an AAG, David defended the New York State Department of Health against employment actions, handled appeals from penalties imposed for professional malpractice; and litigated nursing home cases. He also had sole responsibility for major civil rights litigation, including eminent domain cases.

David parlayed these experiences into a two-and-a-half year term as Chief of Enforcement for the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, supervising twelve attorneys and over twenty investigators as they disposed of nearly 4,000 complaints of employment, housing, and public accommodations discrimination each year.

Leaving the MCAD in 2005, David has now opened his own practice specializing in labor and employment law, litigating on behalf of both employers and employees. His wide experience makes him competent to handle all sorts of commercial (especially real estate), consumer fraud, and civil-rights litigation. David is particularly open to well-founded complaints of professional malpractice against attorneys, accountants, and others.

David has two adopted children, ten and thirteen years old. As a father, he has developed an interest in problems concerning adoption, ADHD, and special education, and hopes to help clients in these areas as well.

David is admitted to the practice of law in Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey.

David was recently elected Secretary of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association.