David Kouba's practice focuses on defending companies against consumer fraud and products liability claims in class actions, mass tort cases, and other complex commercial litigation. David has extensive experience with aggregate litigation at both the trial and appellate levels and has written and spoken frequently on class certification issues. David also represents companies in unfair business practice, toxic tort, workplace safety, and real estate matters and has litigated a variety of pro bono matters, including employment discrimination, voting rights, and affordable housing. In addition, David serves as co-chair of the Firm’s Well-Being Committee and the Institute for Well-Being in Law’s research and scholarship committee and is as an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina’s School of Law.
Experience
- Defending manufacturer of consumer products in multidistrict litigation consolidating class actions, personal injury claims, and government actions raising claims under federal RICO statute and state law claims.
- Representing manufacturer and distributor of consumer products in federal litigation against companies engaged in unfair and unlawful business activity.
- Defending pharmaceutical company defendant in federal and state court litigation brought by government entities, individuals, and class action plaintiffs based on fraudulent marketing, products liability, negligence and other theories.
- Representing plaintiffs in federal class action seeking to recover unpaid wages and raising additional employment-related claims.
- Representing manufacturer in multidistrict litigation that included nationwide and state-wide consumer fraud class actions based on allegedly defective product.
- Representing plaintiffs in federal class action raising claims under the First and Fourth Amendments.
- Defendant in nationwide RICO class action seeking hundreds of billions of dollars in damages for mail and wire fraud claims.
Perspectives
Recognition
Credentials
Education
- M.A., Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Wake Forest University, 2018
- J.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, 2002, with high honors, Order of the Coif
- B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998
Admissions
- District of Columbia
- North Carolina