David Azar Email & Phone Number

David Azar graduated from Duke University School of Law, magna cum laude, in 1999, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif (top 10% of the class). While in law school, he served as a senior editor of Law and Contemporary Problems and was a member of the Moot Court Board. After law school, he clerked for Chief Justice Veasey of the Delaware Supreme Court. Before law school, he received his B.S. in Finance from Indiana University School of Business in 1991. Mr. Azar focuses his practice on class actions on behalf of defrauded investors and consumers, as well as disputes regarding contracts, partnerships, closely held corporations, corporate governance, anti-SLAPP issues, real estate, and other complex commercial matters for businesses and individuals. He also provides corporate counseling as an outside general counsel and in pre-litigation and transactional matters, working with transactional or specialty counsel to provide a litigation perspective. Mr. Azar’s significant litigation experience includes first-chair trial and appellate work. A description of his representative business litigation matters is available at https://milberg.com/attorney/david-azar/.Mr. Azar has extensive knowledge of dispute resolution, having served as a mediator in more than 160 cases, and he has trained and reviewed other mediators. He also played the divorce lawyer to Joaquin Phoenix’s character in the movie Her. Notable Cases Building upon his nine years of experience representing business enterprises and high-net-worth individuals at two of the most prominent business litigation firms (Quinn Emanuel and Sullivan & Cromwell), Mr. Azar has prosecuted several multiparty and other class actions that resulted in more than $350 million in settlements. Significant settlements include obtaining total recovery for investors of $219 million against Bank of New York Mellon and Wells Fargo in a securities fraud/breach of contract action. In addition, Mr. Azar was part of the team that served as co-lead counsel in an antitrust class action resulting in $86 million in settlements on behalf of airline passengers.Prior to Milberg, Mr. Azar also helped lead the team that obtained the $65 million settlement on behalf of the Winklevoss twins against Facebook Inc. and Mark Zuckerberg in connection with the dispute about the formation and intellectual property of Facebook, which was later made into the movie, The Social Network.

Listed skills include Class Actions, Civil Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation, and 19 others.