Dave is a seasoned trial and business lawyer with significant business and military leadership experience. He is recognized for providing clear and concise strategic and practical legal advice in litigation and non-litigation contexts so that clients can make critical business decisions. Dave distills the highly complex technical and legal issues in IP and commercial cases to the key issues a judge or jury needs to understand to resolve them in his client's favor. He has extensive trial experience for a diverse, sophisticated client base in every type of litigation forum in IP, antitrust, and commercial litigation cases.Dave's ability to refine the highly complex to the key issues also has allowed him to provide focused and strategic legal advice on a broad range of non-litigation issues. He has deep experience counseling clients from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies on issues related to IP protection and monetization, risk mitigation, licensing, freedom to operate, antitrust, employment, contracts, corporate governance, M&A, and bankruptcy.Strategic Leadership: Respected advisor to executive leadership, providing insight and strategic advice on asset protection/monetization, risk management, legal trends, and litigation in a constantly evolving and complex business world. Thought leader with a focus on providing business solutions and legal analysis.Legal Department Management: A collaborative leader with a track record of building, retaining, and motivating high-performing teams to achieve corporate and litigation goals, strategies, and priorities. Experienced in P&L management, recruiting and hiring, and performance improvement.Litigation Expertise: Deep experience in patent, trade secret, copyright, antitrust, and commercial litigation. Worked with clients in a wide range of industries on cases involving databases, digital imaging technology (both hardware and software), embedded systems, encryption, gaming technology, medical devices, optics, semiconductor technology, standard-essential patents, and telecommunications (both hardware and software). Favorably resolved cases via trial, motions practice, or settlement and saved clients in excess of $500M.Non-litigation Expertise: Advised clients on risk mitigation, IP asset protection/monetization, antitrust, contracts, licensing, merger and acquisition, bankruptcy, corporate governance, and other corporate issues.Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.