David T. Bartels

As a senior partner at Lawrence Bartels LLP, David T. Bartels focuses his practice on complex business litigation and transactions. His firm is located in Irvine, California, and he provides astute representation to companies and individuals throughout the state. Mr. Bartels has been admitted to practice in California since 2000, and he is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Central, Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of California, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

Mr. Bartels has an extensive background in securities law, and he devotes a large portion of his practice to related litigation. In addition to his courtroom work in that regard, he has appeared in proceedings before the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. Mr. Bartels’s securities-related work has additionally encompassed internal investigations conducted by clients in a variety of business sectors, including health care, transportation and finance.

Other business litigation cases that Mr. Bartels has worked on have involved intellectual property infringement, and he has represented companies that are facing discrimination and other types of employment law claims, shareholder class actions and disputes arising out of mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Bartels has business transactional experience as well.

Mr. Bartels majored in political science at California State University, Long Beach, and he graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts. He then attended the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, where he served on the McGeorge Law Review before being awarded his Juris Doctor with great distinction and being inducted into the Order of the Coif in 2000. His previous experience includes having served as a senior attorney with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and as a senior associate at a global law firm that was based in the District of Columbia.