David Morris Email & Phone Number

Austin

• Intellectual Property and Commercial Litigation; General Intellectual Property and Business Law Counseling
• Represented clients at trial and in discovery and motion practice in trade secret, patent, and commercial litigation
• Counseled multiple consumer products manufacturing clients in intellectual property portfolio development, intellectual property hygiene, risk reduction, and other best practices
• Frequently wrote and spoke on best practices and important changes in the law
• Obtained victory at Fifth Circuit that protected the rights of limited English proficiency voters; received nearly $200,000 fee award and used it to endow a pro bono scholarship at University of Texas School of Law and.
• Won asylum for transgender immigrant from Guinea who faced prison or death if deported; prevailed despite eleven-year default in assertion of right to asylum by client; Safe Haven Award received from Immigration.

Austin, Texas And St. Louis, Missouri

• Conducted discovery and motion practice in complex financial, construction defect, and employment litigation
• Developed case strategy with general counsel and lead trial counsel for NFL team in high profile employment discrimination case
• Negotiated mineral and pipeline leases
• Managed dissolution of failed joint venture
• Assisted clients in entity formation and corporate governance

Austin, Texas Area

• Top performing senior associate up for shareholder promotion; left to explore business opportunity in Africa
• Lead attorney on a wide range of cases (general commercial, real property, environmental, and employment); managed large litigation docket
• Participated in large number of mediations; negotiated and documented many complex settlement agreements
• Shared leadership role in highly-contentious oilfield contamination/individual exposure case; directed litigation strategy over a five-year period; prevailed in arbitration, winning $24,000,000 award for clients
• First and second chair trial and arbitration experience
• Prepared multiple appellate briefs

Austin, Texas Area

• Assisted in negotiating and drafting venture capital financing documents for companies and investors
• Negotiated and prepared complex contract manufacturing agreements involving licensed intellectual property
• Assisted clients with corporate governance

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Activities and Societies: Member, Editorial Board, Virginia Environmental Law Journal Received highest grade awarded in Mass Torts class.

Ba, American Studies, With High Honors

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa Special Honors in American Studies; Undergraduate Research Fellowship; National Merit Scholar

Education record