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 | | | | A respected leader in the legal community, David has served as a member of the Executive Board of the Michigan Trial Lawyers Association and is and elected representative of the State Bar of Michigan. David has been recognized as an expert in issues related to trying close 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 an accident. David has lectured at seminars and authored articles concerning trial technique. | | | | | David joined our firm as a trial attorney in 1992. He came to us from Honigman, Miller, Schwartz, and Cohn, one of Michigan's largest and most prestigious firms. David graduated law school with honors and also earned a Masters degree from the University of Michigan.
 | Seminars & Honors - Author, Use of SPECT Imaging in Traumatic Brain Injury Cases, Michigan
- Trial Lawyers Association, 1997
- Speaker, Evidence Issues Involving Traumatic Brain Injury Cases,
- Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, 1998
- Author, "Breaking the Deadlock: Toward a Socialist-Confucianist Concept of Human Rights in China" 13:469 Mich J Int'l Law;
- Speaker, Institute of Continuing Legal Education, "No Fault Law" 1999
- Guest Lecturer, Trial Advocacy, Wayne State University School of Law, 2000
- Guest Lecturer, Trial Advocacy, Wayne State University School of Law, 1999
- Guest Lecturer, Trial Advocacy, Wayne State University School of Law, 1998
- Speaker, No Fault Extravaganza, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, "Preparing the Traumatic Brain Injury Case" 2003
- Moderator, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association Seminar, "Focus on the Jury" 2003
- Executive Board, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, 1996-1999, 2003- present
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