David A. Jones is an experienced litigator and business advisor licensed in Texas and California.  He has created litigation plans and strategies designed to manage cost and streamline client reporting and collaboration.  He created and supervised networks of lawyers for the purpose of maximizing effectiveness and to identify cases and forums in which the client has the greatest opportunity to create successful, precedent-setting outcomes.    

EXPERIENCE
David has tried and won numerous cases and successfully argued appeals in state and federal courts in more than forty states across the country.  He has successfully defended dozens of class actions.  He has managed national and regional dockets of cases, including federal and state multi-district litigation proceedings.  He has arbitrated matters in both industry-specific and general arbitration forums, and has represented clients in regulatory enforcement proceedings and investigations before numerous state and federal agencies.
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Industries include financial services, consumer products, energy, and many others.  Issues include consumer fraud, regulatory compliance, corporate ownership and control, insurance coverage and recovery, directors and officers’ liability, media and online defamation, mergers and acquisitions, labor and employment, and a broad variety of other commercial and intellectual property matters.

PRESENTATIONS, PUBLICATIONS, AND RECOGNITIONS
David is a frequent speaker and writer on developments in the law that impact business decision-makers.  Recent topics include:  (i) how technology and the growth of non-law service providers creates both opportunities and challenges for lawyers and their clients, (ii) court decisions addressing data breach litigation, (iii) what young litigators need to know to win their first trial, and (iv) class action trends and their impact on the ways business interacts with consumers.  David is perennially recognized among the Best Lawyers in America for Commercial Litigation.

EDUCATION

• Boston University School of Law, J.D.
• Boston University School of Management, B.S./B.A.—Finance and Marketing

 
​PRIOR FIRM EXPERIENCE

• Strasburger & Price, San Antonio, TX
• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, San Antonio, TX
• Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, Los Angeles, CA
• O’Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles, CA

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