David has a track record for successfully guiding clients through all phases of insurance claims, litigation, arbitration, and mediation, with particularly notable experience handling large and complex disputes, often addressing novel legal issues under all types of coverage, including general liability, property, directors and officers, professional liability, commercial crime, fiduciary liability, and cyberliability insurance, among others. As a policyholder advocate, David is routinely leveraged to bring value to commercial transactions by advising clients with respect to the fulfillment of insurance requirements and by negotiating coverage crucial to closing the deal, including representations and warranties products.

David’s representations range from large publicly-traded Fortune 500 corporations to start-ups and mid-market private companies covering industries as diverse as banking and finance, energy exploration and development, mortgage servicing and real estate, manufacturing, consumer retail and eCommerce, hospitality, entertainment and gaming, and healthcare. David’s practice is international, with depth of experience in matters across the country at the state and federal level and experience in matters involving the London and Bermuda markets, to name but a few.

David is a strong advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and issues. He serves as the U.S. Partner Co-Chair of PRISM, Reed Smith’s LGBTQ+ affinity group. In this role, he leads the firm’s diversity initiatives and programming across the U.S. including through attorney and staff programming, training, and recruitment, as well as client engagement.