David E. Christensen, Michigan Auto Accident Lawyer
David E. Christensen is a partner of Gursten, Koltonow, Gursten, Christensen and Raitt, PC, and a respected leader in the legal community. He is an executive board member of the Michigan Association for Justice (formerly the Michigan Trial Lawyers Association) and has served as an elected representative of the State Bar of Michigan. He is also an officer of the State Bar of Michigan Negligence Law Section, and was named a Michigan Super Lawyer in Super Lawyers magazine.
As an auto accident lawyer, David is a recognized expert on closed-head injury cases and psychiatric injury cases. He obtained what was, at the time, the largest jury verdict ever rendered in a Michigan case involving a purely psychiatric injury from a car accident in Wayne County. David has lectured at many seminars and authored articles concerning trial technique for such cases.
David joined our law firm as a trial attorney in 1992. Previously, he worked for Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP, one of Michigan's largest and most prestigious business law firms. He graduated from the University of Michigan Law School with honors and also earned a master’s degree from the University of Michigan.
David handles auto accident cases throughout the state, and works out of the firm’s Southfield and Ann Arbor offices. He has received many seven-figure verdicts and settlements on behalf of his clients, and continues to strongly advocate for those injured and killed in car and truck accidents today.
David also advocates for needy Michigan residents as chairman of the board of Ann Arbor-based Help Source, a private, non-profit agency that serves Washtenaw and western Wayne County. Help Source operated Big Brothers Big Sisters in Washtenaw, as well as 10 other non-profit causes. In 2007, David was honored by the Ann Arbor Business Review for his work with the human services agency.
For more information about David, or to retain him as your Michigan auto accident lawyer, please call (800) 777-0028. You can also use the free consultation form with absolutely no fee or obligation.
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Michigan Auto Law is Michigan’s largest law firm practicing exclusively in car accident, truck accident and motorcycle accident cases, with offices in Southfield, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids and Sterling Heights. Our auto accident lawyers have helped injury victims throughout Michigan for more than 50 years and three generations. We have achieved more million dollar verdicts and settlements for auto accident injury and death cases than any other law firm in Michigan. Year after year, Michigan Auto Law has unmatched success helping people.
Seminars and Honors
Speaker, “Opening Statements and Cross-Examination of the Defense “Independent” Medical Examiner,” Michigan Association for Justice; Southfield, Mich., February 2010
Author, Use of SPECT Imaging in Traumatic Brain Injury Cases, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association; 1997
AV Peer Review Rated
Michigan Auto Law is an AV RATED law firm, the highest possible rating for legal ability and ethics. Very few lawyers and law firms in Michigan have been selected with this top rating.
American Association for Justice
Steve Gursten is Chair for the 2008 Interstate Truck Litigation Group for the American Association for Justice (AAJ). Michigan Auto Law has been a long standing member and contributor to the American Association for Justice (AAJ), formerly the American Trial Lawyers Association (ATLA).
Michigan Super Lawyer
Top 5% of Attorneys in Michigan
Michigan Super Lawyer features only the Top 5% of attorneys in Michigan.
3 Michigan Auto Law attorneys
have been featured as
Michigan Super Lawyer:
Lawrence E. Gursten - 2007, 2006
Leonard M. Koltonow - 2007
David E. Christensen - 2007
Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers
Only 5% of Law Firms in the U.S. Qualify
Only 5% of all U.S. law firms qualify to be included in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, making Michigan Auto Law one of the most distinguished and respected in the country.
Michigan Lawyer of the Year
Steven M. Gursten was selected as "Lawyer of the Year" for 2005, by Michigan Lawyers Weekly, the state's largest legal periodical. Steve was selected after winning a $9 million dollar pain and suffering settlement for one of his clients - the largest settlement for pain and suffering in Michigan in over ten years.
Michigan Trial Lawyers Association (MTLA)
Robert M. Raitt of Michigan Auto Law is President for the Michigan Trial Lawyers Association (MTLA) for 2008. The attorneys at Michigan Auto Law are well-respected members of the Michigan Trial Lawyers Association (MTLA), dedicated to helping Michigan families seek justice when they are injured by another person's negligence.