Dave is a Partner at Kenney & Sams.  He is an experienced business and commercial litigator with nearly twenty years of experience representing businesses and individuals in complex litigation in Massachusetts state and federal courts.  Though often representing corporate clients and large property owners and developers, Dave’s practice includes general contract/business/commercial counseling and litigation, construction litigation, real estate litigation, close-corporation shareholder/partnership disputes, employment litigation, manufacturing/distribution disputes, insurance litigation, intellectual property, product and tort liability, and litigation involving financial institutions and other professionals.  Dave also has extensive experience defending corporations in consumer protection litigation, including class actions, and is regularly retained by other lawyers around the country to serve as local counsel in complex litigation in Massachusetts courts.  

Dave represents clients throughout Massachusetts, has successfully tried cases in the Massachusetts (state) Superior and District Courts and has appeared in every state and federal court department in Massachusetts. Dave has also successfully appeared before the Massachusetts Appeals Court and Supreme Judicial Court.  Dave has also been admitted pro hac vice numerous times to serve as counsel for clients in litigation outside of Massachusetts.  

Prior to joining Kenney and Sams, Dave was a partner with a large, regional litigation firm and, before that, a partner with a mid-size, full-service business law firm.