1201 Third Avenue, Suite 3400
Seattle, WA 98101
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 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—which has resulted in over $50 billion in settlements to date. 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 that recently resolved for $725 million, the largest settlement to date of a U.S. privacy class action and the most Facebook has ever paid to resolve private litigation. David also helped lead the firm’s efforts in In re: JUUL Labs, Inc. Marketing, Sales Practices, & Products Liability Litigation, MDL 2913 (N.D. Cal.), which resulted in nearly $2 billion in settlements from JUUL and Altria for their role in the youth vaping epidemic.
Prior to joining the firm, David clerked for the Honorable Ricardo S. Martinez, 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
Asian American Bar Association, Member
National Center for Employee Ownership, Member
Korean American Bar Association of Washington, Advisory Board Member
Speaker, From Conflict to Cost-Savings: How Mediation Can Make eDiscovery More Efficient (July 2024).
Speaker, Opioid Litigation, Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys Summer Training Program, Chelan, WA (June 2023).
Speaker, Opioid Litigation Settlement Updates, Washington County Administration Association Annual Conference (April 2023).
Speaker, Opioid Litigation, Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys Spring Training Program, Tacoma, WA (April 2023).
Speaker, Opioid Abuse and Litigation: Legal and Policy Responses, Human Right to Health: Pathways and Responses, Seattle, WA (November 2019)
Speaker, Opioid Litigation on Behalf of Local Governments, Washington State Society of Healthcare Attorneys Annual Conference, Seattle, WA (April 2018).
Speaker, National Costs of Opioid Crisis, Mass Torts Made Perfect, Las Vegas, NV (April 2018).
Speaker, Fundamentals of the Repurchase Obligation, National Center for Employee Ownership Annual Conference, Denver, CO (March 2017).
Speaker, Legal Ethics: Top Attorney-Client Mistakes, National Business Institute, Seattle, WA (December 2016).
Speaker, Title Law: Ethics, National Business Institute, Seattle, WA (April 2016).
Lawdragon, 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers, 2023-2024
Selected to Super Lawyers list in Super Lawyers – Washington, 2022-2024
Selected to Rising Stars list in Super Lawyers – Washington, 2019-2020
National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyers in Washington, 2020-present