Dave has extensive experience—in the boardroom and the courtroom. With a background of being in-house counsel and in private practice, he brings over 35 years of diverse experience to managing and resolving a wide range of legal challenges for his clients.
Dave advises individuals and organizational clients to achieve the best possible result through negotiation, mediation, arbitration or trial. He focuses on strategies to evaluate and manage commercial and legal risks. Dave has tried numerous jury trials to successful verdicts and handled many bench trials, arbitrations and mediations.
In addition to the private practice of law, Dave was in-house counsel at Koch Industries, Inc., the nation’s largest privately-held corporation, and at Trans World Airlines. Dave applies his decades of experience by providing comprehensive guidance and counseling to individual and corporate clients on a broad-spectrum of legal subject areas.
Dave is also experienced in alternative dispute resolution, including mediating cases in Missouri State and Federal Courts. Dave is an approved neutral in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.