Partner
Atlanta
Tel: 1.404.581.8206
Fax: 1.404.581.8330
Email: dmmonde@jonesday.com

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Related Services

• Trial Practice
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution & Mediation
  • Commercial Disputes
  • Consumer Fraud & Warranty Litigation
• Labor & Employment
  • Noncompetition, Confidentiality, Trade Secret & Employee Raiding
• Airlines & Aviation
• Automotive

David maintains a broad-based commercial litigation practice, with substantial experience in:

• aviation law, including litigation regarding engine service maintenance agreements, engine fleet sale agreements, and defense of claims involving provision of airframe and engine parts and services

• trade secret, unfair competition, and restrictive covenant matters in industries including: aircraft maintenance, automobile new sales, commercial radio broadcasting, employment staffing services, fertilizer sales, food service and concessions management, legal personnel placement services, medical and dental practices, orthopedic implants, physician placement services, specialty chemicals, and wireless telecommunications infrastructure

• eminent domain claims involving property ranging from residential to commercial properties including convenience stores, high-volume fast food restaurants, mixed-use properties, office complexes, and service stations

• automotive dealer and franchise litigation

• complex commercial disputes involving accounting malpractice, airport access agreements, aircraft engine long-term maintenance agreements, automotive engine electronic control modules, computer mainframe and software, credit card processing services, implantable gastric stimulators, medical care claims processing software, railroad crossing incidents, reinsurance, rotational molding of municipal garbage containers, signature capture point-of-sale devices, state sales and use tax, water treatment and purification chemicals, and Web site design and e-commerce consulting services

• municipal law and Open Records Act litigation

• ERISA litigation

• defense of RICO and related state law RICO claims

• defamation litigation and

• special education litigation under IDEA and related statutes.

Since 1999, David has represented the GE Transportation division of General Electric Company in more than two dozen actions in venues across the country in contract, maintenance service, and product-related claims. David has extensive experience in prosecution and defense of restrictive covenants, trade secret claims, and related matters involving protection against disclosure of sensitive corporate information, particularly electronically stored data, handling over 30 such matters, often on an expedited basis, in jurisdictions throughout the United States. David counsels numerous corporate clients and lectures on unfair competition law issues and has assisted several clients with nationwide operations in customizing restrictive covenants for use in multiple jurisdictions. David also has experience representing and litigating against foreign-based clients in U.S. litigation and has handled offensive and defensive discovery efforts in the British Virgin Islands, Canada, Korea, Mexico, and the United Kingdom involving foreign-based companies.

In 2005, David served as lead counsel in the Firm's successful representation of the city of Alpharetta, Georgia as special prosecutors in proceedings brought by the city to remove council member R.J. Kurey from office for violations of the city charter — only the second time in Georgia history that an elected municipal official had been removed from office by his peers.

David has appeared as lead counsel before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals; the U.S. District Courts in Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Ohio, South Carolina, and Texas; the Georgia Supreme Court and Court of Appeals; state courts throughout Georgia; state courts in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Missouri, Ohio, and Texas; and the American Arbitration Association.

David was selected as one of Atlanta's "Super Lawyers" by Atlanta magazine (2006) and as one of Georgia's "Super Lawyers" for 2007. He is particularly active in community organizations devoted to disability and special education issues, including Families of Children Under Stress (FOCUS) (board of directors and former president), Fulton County Schools Advisory Special Education Advisory Council, and Challenger Little League Baseball. David regularly represents on a pro bono basis children with disabilities and their families in special education administrative proceedings and litigation and in related litigation involving boards of education.

David has served as Administrative Partner for the Atlanta Office since 2006.

Georgia

University of Rochester (B.A. cum laude 1981); Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (Second Lieutenant, United States Army Medical Service Corps, 1981-1982); Georgetown University (Associate Editor, Immigration Law Journal; J.D. cum laude 1987)