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David “Dave” Casey

Managing Partner, CaseyGerry

David S. Casey, Jr. joined the law firm of CaseyGerry in 1976 after working as a prosecutor for the San Diego City Attorney’s office. The firm was founded by his late father, David S. Casey Sr. in 1947 and is the oldest plaintiffs’ law firm in San Diego.  

 

David leads the firm’s car accident lawyers in San Diego in obtaining multi-million dollar results each year in a complex range of cases such as the Volkswagen Emissions scandal in which David was appointed to the national Plaintiff’s Steering Committee overseeing litigation. The case was resolved for $14.7 billion, one of the biggest corporate settlements in history.

 

In the Chrysler Dodge-Jeep Ecodiesel® Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation, David was appointed by the federal court to serve on the Plaintiff’s Steering Committee. The case was resolved for $300 million.

 

Associations 

  • Past president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (now American Association for Justice)
  • Past president of the Consumer Attorneys of California 
  • Past president of the Western Trial Lawyers Association
  • Past president of the San Diego Trial Lawyers Association.
  • Since 2008, he has served as state chair for Senator Dianne Feinstein’s judicial selection committee.
  • Prior to his appointment as state chair, David served on the local San Diego judicial selection committee for 16 years.

 

Honors

  • Master – Wallace Inn Court – Inducted September 2020
  • Avvo Top-Rated Attorney 2020
  • Best Lawyers 2021
  • Daily Journal Top Plaintiff Lawyer 2020
  • Super Lawyer 2020
  • Super Lawyers Top 10 2020
  • Lawdragon 2020
  • Best Lawyers 2020
  • Daily Journal Top Plaintiff Lawyer 2020
  • 2019 Hughes McClenahan award by American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)
  • University of San Diego 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award