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David is a partner in the firm’s nationally recognized Complex Litigation Group where he litigates cases on behalf of plaintiffs in federal and state courts across the country in a wide variety of cases involving corporate wrongdoing.
He has helped his clients—including government entities, retirement plans, institutional investors, and consumers—obtain multimillion-dollar recoveries against some of the largest corporations in the country. He has significant trial experience, having tried month-long trials in both federal and state court.
David is currently at the center of the firm’s largest and most high-profile cases. He represents hundreds of government entities all over the country in In re National Prescription Opiate Litigation, MDL No. 2804 (N.D. Ohio)—seeking to hold manufacturers, distributors, and dispensers responsible for creating and fueling the opioid epidemic—and In re: JUUL Labs, Inc. Marketing, Sales Practices, & Products Liability Litigation, MDL 2913 (N.D. Cal.), seeking to hold JUUL and Altria responsible for creating and fueling the youth vaping epidemic. He is also one of the lead attorneys in In re: Facebook, Inc. Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation, MDL 2843 (N.D. Cal.), a class action on behalf of all Facebook U.S. users alleging Facebook discloses user information and data without consent.
Prior to joining the firm, David clerked for the Honorable Ricardo S. Martinez, Chief U.S. District Judge in the Western District of Washington. He is past President of the Korean American Bar Association of Washington, and a Fellow of the Washington Leadership Institute. While born in Seoul and extremely proud of his Korean heritage, David has spent most of his life in the Seattle area, where he currently lives with his wife and two young daughters and is an avid supporter of all Seattle sports teams.
Washington State Bar Association, Member
King County Bar Association, Member
Korean American Bar Association, Board Member
Asian American Bar Association, Member
National Center for Employee Ownership, Member
Speaker, Washington County Administration Association Annual Conference, Opioid Litigation Settlement Updates (April 2023)
Speaker, Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys Spring Training Program, Opioid Litigation (Tacoma, WA, April 2023)
Speaker, Human Right to Health: Pathways and Responses, Opioid Abuse and Litigation: Legal and Policy Responses (Seattle, WA, November 2019)
Speaker, Washington State Society of Healthcare Attorneys Annual Conference, Opioid Litigation on Behalf of Local Governments (Seattle, WA, April 2018)
Speaker, Mass Torts Made Perfect, National Costs of Opioid Crisis (Las Vegas, NV, April 2018)
Speaker, National Center for Employee Ownership Annual Conference, Fundamentals of the Repurchase Obligation (Denver, CO, March 2017)
Speaker, National Business Institute, Legal Ethics: Top Attorney-Client Mistakes (Seattle, WA, December 2016)
Speaker, National Business Institute, Title Law: Ethics (Seattle, WA, April 2016)
Lawdragon, 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers, 2023
Selected to Super Lawyers list in Super Lawyers – Washington, 2022
Selected to Rising Stars list in Super Lawyers – Washington, 2019-2020
National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyers in Washington