David L. Marcus
David L. Marcus was born in Easton, Pennsylvania and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Mr. Marcus attended Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. He graduated magna cum laude in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in political science. He then attended the University of Minnesota School of Law in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He graduated cum laude from “the U” in 1996.
Mr. Marcus began practice with the Kansas City office of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP, an international law firm known largely for its work in defending pharmaceutical manufacturers and tobacco companies against product liability lawsuits. Mr. Marcus was part of the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Practice Group, a position that gave him his first taste of large-scale, complex litigation and class actions.
In 1997, hoping to focus his practice on commercial litigation, Mr. Marcus joined the Kansas City office of Bryan Cave, LLP. There, he worked on commercial cases and class actions involving companies such as H&R Block and Kansas City Life Insurance Company.
In 1999, Mr. Marcus followed other Bryan Cave attorneys to Berkowitz Oliver Williams Shaw & Eisenbrandt, LLP, a litigation boutique located on the Country Club Plaza. At Berkowitz, Mr. Marcus continued building his class action experience, representing clients such as American Family Mutual Insurance Company and Wal-Mart. Mr. Marcus also worked on several cases involving alleged accounting malpractice, most notably a case involving the failure of a large insurance company based in St. Louis. Mr. Marcus became a partner at Berkowitz in 2004.
From being a first-year associate at a 500-person, full-service legal powerhouse to a partner at a 30-person litigation boutique, Mr. Marcus learned valuable lessons about professionalism, client service, and meeting and exceeding client expectations. Mr. Marcus drew upon those lessons in co-founding Graves Bartle Marcus & Garrett, LLC. His goal was to build a law firm that rejects the paint-by-numbers approach to resolving legal disputes, and instead emphasizes creativity, efficacy and efficiency.
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