David has been the Executive Director of Towards Justice since 2018 and previously served as Litigation Counsel with the organization. At Towards Justice, David uses bold and innovative legal tools to help people fight back against corporate abuse and advance worker power and dignity.
David has led groundbreaking class actions tackling wage theft, labor trafficking, junk fees, unsafe workplaces, unfair debt collection, whistleblower retaliation, wage and price fixing, and more. His work includes pioneering cases under competition and consumer protection laws in support of workers, such as the first case to challenge “no-hire” provisions in fast-food franchise agreements, cases against exploitative stay-or-pay contracts and non-compete agreements, and a case helping rideshare drivers attack unfair competition by powerful gig companies. He has also leveraged tort, minimum wage laws, and antidiscrimination protections to challenge unsafe working conditions at Amazon and large meatpacking conglomerates.
David also supports working people pursuing policy reforms at the state and local levels on wage theft, consumer protection, antitrust, whistleblower protections, forced arbitration, and more. He writes and speaks regularly on forced arbitration, consumer protection, labor-antitrust intersections, and workplace health and safety, including testimony before state legislatures considering reforms to mitigate the harms of forced arbitration.
Prior to his work at Towards Justice, David was a staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, focusing on forced arbitration and predatory auto lending. While there, he authored the Model State Consumer and Employee Justice Enforcement Act, which equips states with tools to address the harms of forced arbitration for low-income consumers and workers. David remains a contributing author for the National Consumer Law Center, co-authoring the organization’s treatise on the enforceability of forced arbitration clauses and class waivers.
In 2023, David served as a Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow at Harvard Law School. In 2020, David was awarded the Rising Star Award by the National Consumer Law Center, recognizing his significant contributions to consumer law. He also served as co-lead counsel in Solis v. Circle Group, a class action challenging the misclassification and underpayment of hundreds of immigrant drywall workers, which was honored as the Colorado Plaintiffs’ Employment Lawyers Case of the Year in 2018.
David clerked for Chief Judge Patti B. Saris of the District of Massachusetts and Judges Robert D. Sack and Susan L. Carney of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He is a graduate of Williams College and Harvard Law School. David serves on the board of directors of the People’s Parity Project and is the president of the board of Congregation Rodef Shalom, his synagogue in Denver.
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