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David Fried is a trial lawyer who represents injured individuals and businesses. David primarily focuses on helping catastrophically injured clients and their families recover full compensation resulting from negligent and intentional harms. The remainder of David’s practice is devoted to helping resolve workplace and business disputes including contract breaches, theft of intellectual property and all types of work-place discrimination. David has particular expertise handling large complex wage and hour class claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Following law school, David was hired as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable Tom Pope, the Honorable Jefferson Davis, and the Honorable Shepherd Howell in Cartersville, Georgia. He then worked on the other side of his current plaintiff’s practice – defending injury cases with the Atlanta insurance defense firm, Fain, Major & Brennan. He later concentrated his practice on Fair Labor Standards Act Wage and Overtime claims and employment discrimination defense litigation with the Atlanta offices of Jackson Lewis, then Hunton Andrews Kurth. David left the “big firm” environment with the goal of representing injured individuals and businesses. Since 2005, David has been Identified by Law & Politics and the publishers of Atlanta Magazine as Georgia’s Legal Elite and consistently named among Georgia’s Super Lawyers. He is a regularly invited guest speaker for legal seminars, web and podcasts. David lives in Atlanta with his wife Della, his two children Benjamin and Joscelin-James, their black lab Zelda and their cat, Panther.Areas of PracticePersonal InjuryMedical MalpracticeCatastrophic InjuryAuto WrecksTrucking WrecksMotorcycle InjuriesBicycle WrecksRoad DefectsDefective and Dangerous PremisesInadequate SecuritySexual AssaultPolice Misconduct – Eighth Amendment Deliberate Indifference Cases for Prison DetaineesSpinal InjuriesTraumatic Brain InjuriesSchool/Student AbuseWork-Place DiscriminationIndividual and Class Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA) Wage and Overtime DisputesIntellectual Property and Contract DisputesEducationEmory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia – 1995Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York - 1989

Listed skills include Torts, Personal Injury, Litigation, Civil Litigation, and 23 others.