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DEAN LEGAL GROUP, PLLC

David represents individuals and businesses in a wide range of litigation and transactional matters before the state and federal courts, including real estate and zoning litigation, shareholder disputes, contract matters, employment disputes, and business torts. David also represents startups, small businesses, and non-profits in a variety of transactional and business matters. He has also represented individual whistleblowers and classes of investors in qui tam and securities fraud litigation in state and federal courts across the country.

 

David began his legal career at the Miami-Dade County Public Defender's Office, where he conducted dozens of jury and non-jury trials. After moving to Philadelphia in 2009, David gained extensive experience in complex litigation with Philadelphia and New York-based litigation firms. David relocated with his family to Western Massachusetts in 2020, and has maintained an active practice in both Philadelphia and the Pioneer Valley.

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David serves on the Planning Board in his adopted home of Sunderland, Massachusetts, and also serves on the Franklin County Regional Planning Board. In his spare time, David enjoys playing music, coaching his sons' recreational sports teams, playing in an adult wood-bat baseball league, and serving as an MIAA-certified basketball referee. 

 

Representative Matters

 

• Represented builder/developer in federal court and before state environmental hearing board in litigation related to improper withholding of sewage permits for multi-million dollar student housing development 

 

• Represented owner of hotel/club/restaurants in multi-fronted litigation against former business partner in matters related to corporate fraud and business dissolution

 

• Represented owner/developer in state court litigation involving dispute over ownership of subject parcel

 

• Represented propane distribution company in litigation, culminating in jury trial, against former partners for fraud

 

• Represented homeowner against national homebuilder in dispute over construction/purchase agreement

 

• Represented franchisee in negotiation of franchise and lease agreement

 

• Represented pharmaceutical industry whistleblower in qui tam litigation against a number of prescription drug manufacturers, resulting in nearly $100 million recovered for federal and state Medicaid programs

 

• Represented class of shareholders in securities fraud litigation against publicly-traded health care software company, resulting in multi-million dollar recovery for shareholders

 

 

Education

 

New York University School of Law, J.D. (2006)

 

Wesleyan University, B.A. (1999)

 

Admissions and Affiliations

 

Pennsylvania (2009), Florida (2006), and Massachusetts (2024)

 

Admitted in E.D.Pa, W.D.Pa, and Third Circuit Court of Appeals 

 

Certified arbitrator in Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas

 

Publications

 

Co-Author with Henry Donner, “Practitioners' Guide to Navigating New Mechanics' Lien Law Amendments,” The Legal Intelligencer, Aug. 21, 2017

 

Co-Author with Inez M. Markovich, “One Person’s Distress is Another’s Opportunity: A Buyer’s and Seller’s Guide to Nonperforming Loans,” The Secured Lender, May 2012.