Medical Device
Resume:
DAVID H. MARTIN
**** ********* *******, **, *******, GA 30345
**********@*******.***
Admitted: CA, IL, DC; GA bar membership pending
EDUCATION
J.D., Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, 1992
Honors/Activities:
. Editor, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, 1991-1992
. Instructor, Legal Writing and Reasoning, 1991-1992
. Teaching Assistant for Federal Litigation, 1992
. Lecturer, Politics and the Media for Harvard College, 1991-1992
A.B., summa cum laude, in Political Science/Communications, University of
Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL,1989
Honors/Activities:
. Graduated with Highest University Honors (top 2% of class)
. Phi Beta Kappa
. Vice-President, Student Government, 1988-1989
WORK EXPERIENCE
Counsel, The Thompson Law Group, Atlanta, GA, January 2012 - Present
. Lead responsibility for researching and drafting foreclosure defense
pleadings, including drafting and arguing successful motions for
injunctive relief.
. Lead responsibility for variety of commercial litigation and business
dispute matters, including: researching and drafting pleadings;
conducting discovery; and researching and drafting appellate pleadings.
Counsel, Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry, Atlanta, GA,
June 2009 -
December 2011
. Lead responsibility for variety of complex litigation and business
dispute matters, including: researching and drafting pleadings;
conducting discovery; and researching emerging and developing areas of
litigation and corporate law.
. Primary responsibility for researching and drafting dispositive
motions and appellate briefs.
Partner, Law Offices of David H. Martin, Esq., Los Angeles, CA, 2007-2009
. Served as lead trial counsel in state and federal lawsuits arising from
County of Los Angeles's actions between King/Drew Medical Center and its
medical staff. Worked with clients, a coalition of physicians, community
leaders and several individual Medical Center physicians, seeking interim
and permanent injunctive relief and damages. Settled both federal and
state litigation matters recently favorably to plaintiffs.
. Provided first and second-chair litigation counsel in wage and hour,
commercial, insurance coverage and products liability individual and
class-action matters.
. Advised several investment banking firms regarding compliance with
federal securities regulations, including Rule 10b-5 and Sarbanes-Oxley
Act regulations.
Partner, Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, 2004-2007
. Served as lead trial counsel in King/Drew Medical Center state and
federal lawsuits.
. Was second-chair litigation counsel in several insurance coverage and
wage and hour litigation matters.
. Represented local and county governmental entities in environmental
compliance regulatory and constituent litigation matters.
Senior Litigation Associate, Christensen, Miller, et al., Los Angeles, CA,
2000-2004
. Worked primarily with business, commercial, and securities matters.
. Served as second-chair for multi-million dollar, complex corporate-
control litigation in case where client prevailed at jury trial on every
claim. Had exclusive responsibility for all discovery and motion work,
witness preparation and witness outlines. Cross-examined witnesses.
. Had first-chair responsibility in several labor and employment litigation
matters, including defending unlawful termination claims, interference
with business relations, and conversion of intangible business assets.
. Taught legal research/writing seminar to incoming associates and advanced
seminar to mid-level associates.
Litigation Associate, Latham & Watkins, Los Angeles, CA, 1997-2000
. Was involved in general business, securities and labor and employment
litigation matters.
. Conducted significant securities and employment litigation, including
lead role in drafting motions to dismiss and motions for summary
judgment.
. Served as lead attorney managing discovery team in complex class-action
litigation.
Litigation Associate, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC, 1992-1997
. Was involved in all aspects of a variety of civil and white collar
federal trial and appellate matters.
. Worked with The Honorable Judge and Dean Kenneth W. Starr on Whitewater
investigation transition team and on subsequent work in Little Rock, AK.
. Had significant experience also in medical device and mass-tort
litigation, including conducting internal investigations.
. Worked with Legislative Law practice group representing industry groups
in connection with legal issues before United States Congress.
. Represented 250 Members of Congress against Department of Justice in
United States v. Knox before Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the
United States Supreme Court.
Legislative Officer, Speech Writer, Senator Daniel Quayle and Office of the
Vice President of the United States, Washington, DC, 1988-1999
PUBLICATIONS
"Rights and Remedies Available in Federal Litigation Brought by the FDIC
and Its Transferees," Journal of the American Bankruptcy Institute, March
2011.
"Extraterritorial Applicability of the Fourth and Fifth Amendment
Protections: The U.S. Constitution as Pact or Universal Declaration of
Rights," Harvard International Law Journal, 1992.
"Technology Transfer to the Former Eastern Bloc Nations: Lessons the East
Can Learn from the Failed New International Economic Order," Harvard
Journal of Law and Technology, 1991.
OUTSIDE INTERESTS
Judge, UCLA and Pepperdine Law School Moot Court Competitions, 1999-2008
Los Angeles and Atlanta Triathlon Clubs
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