E. David Marks

David Marks is a partner at GCA Law Partners LLP. From the firm's office in Mountain View, California, he focuses his practice on real estate litigation and transactions for his clients throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The types of matters that Mr. Marks has handled include commercial and residential real estate purchases and sales, construction defects, lease disputes, unlawful detainers, title and easement controversies, construction contract breaches, the preparation and review of leases and purchase contracts, and broker professional liability. A tenacious litigator, he is also trained in arbitration and mediation, and he often pursues some of these cases through one of those alternative dispute resolution methods. Mr. Marks has also been approved as a mediator and arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and a mediator for the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS

Mr. Marks received a Bachelor of Arts with departmental honors from Stanford University in 1984. Remaining in the Bay Area, he went on to pursue his legal education at the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, and he was awarded his Juris Doctor in 1988.  Mr. Marks was a partner at Miller, Starr & Regalia before joining GCA Law Partners LLP in August 2011. Admitted to practice before all California state courts, he is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Mr. Marks has had several articles appear in a variety of publications. Some of the topics that he has written on have included construction defect litigation, mechanic's liens, real estate disclosure, and real estate fraud.

Highly regarded by his fellow attorneys for his superb track record and high degree of ethics, Mr. Marks has received an AV Preeminent* peer review rating through Martindale-Hubbell.*AV®, AV Preeminent®, Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished and Martindale-Hubbell Notable are certification marks used under license in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell® is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Rating™ fall into two categories – legal ability and general ethical standards.