David Lavine has been practicing law for more than 30 years.  He began his career in the highly-selective Honors Program as a Trial Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice and as an Assistant United States Attorney, where prosecuted all manner of immigration, drug, real estate, financial fraud, and computer crime violations.  Since then, David has brought and defended civil cases on behalf of clients, spanning securities fraud and consumer protection cases, breach of contract, unfair business practices and other business litigation, real estate entanglements, labor and employment law violations, tax and immigration claims, toxic torts, and intellectual property enforcement.

Along the way, David has lectured on legal writing and motion practice, and on trial and appellate advocacy, legal ethics, and substantive legal topics at several law schools and at training programs domestically and abroad.  David has served as a judge pro tempore in the Los Angeles and San Francisco County Superior Courts.