David S. Rudolf

David Rudolf is a managing partner at the law firm of Pfeiffer Rudolf, which is based in Charlotte, North Carolina. He has been in the legal field for more than four decades and focuses his practice on criminal defense matters. He is committed to fighting for the underdog against the might of the state. To uphold people's rights, he launched his law firm in 1982, and the firm has never strayed from that goal.

Besides defending business executives, professionals, athletes and politicians in federal white collar investigations and prosecutions, Mr. Rudolf has also successfully defended people accused of capital murder and other major felonies in state courts. He has won judgments and settlements totaling more than $100 million on behalf of his clients in cases involving the abuse of authority against certain persons.

With a bachelor’s degree in political science, Mr. Rudolf graduated summa cum laude in 1971 from the Rutgers University. He also studied a semester abroad in London, England, at the London School of Economics. He graduated cum laude from the New York University School of Law and earned his Doctor of Jurisprudence in 1971.

Mr. Rudolf is a member of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice, the American Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, the North Carolina Bar Association, the American Board of Criminal Lawyers and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Honored for his exceptional legal work, Mr. Rudolf has been named to The Best Lawyers in America list for 29 years in a row. He also has been selected for inclusion in the Top 100 Lawyers in North Carolina list. He has been featured in The Staircase, a Netflix documentary where he represented Michael Peterson, an American novelist, and has delivered lectures about that case all over the world. For his work in the documentary, he was the recipient of the Praeses Elit Award from the Dublin Law Society at Trinity College in Ireland.