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David J. Walton, Member dwalton@cozen.com |
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Office: Phone: (610) 832-7455 Toll Free: (800) 379-0695 Fax: (610) 941-0711 |
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Mailing Address:
Suite 400, P.O. Box 800200 Four Falls Corporate Center
West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania 19428
United States
Dave Walton is a member in Cozen O'Connor’s Labor & Employment Practice Group, practicing from the firm’s West Conshohocken office. He concentrates his practice in all aspects of employment litigation. He has extensive experience in litigating matters involving restrictive covenants, trade secrets, fiduciary duties and defending employers targeted by discrimination lawsuits.
Dave represents a broad range of clients from large multinational corporations to small companies, defending employers in all types of employment discrimination claims and assisting employers facing challenges posed by the information-age economy. He has lectured to attorneys and human resource professionals on wide-ranging issues in employment law, providing clients with the tools necessary to effectively manage their workforce.
Dave's trial experience includes the defense and prosecution of claims involving trade secrets, restrictive covenants, unfair competition, tortious interference and civil conspiracy. This experience includes a $7 million verdict in a landmark case in Montgomery County involving trade secrets, duty of loyalty, tortious interference, unfair competition, conspiracy and breach of contract. Dave has also successfully defended a large real estate company against claims of breach of a non-solicit agreement, intentional interference with contract, breach of fiduciary duty and unfair competition.
Dave is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Virginia, and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania, District of New Jersey and Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia. He is a member of the labor and employment law committees of the American and Pennsylvania Bar Associations, and the Montgomery County Bar Association. He was named a 2005, 2006 and 2007 "Pennsylvania Super Lawyer – Rising Star" by Law & Politics.
Dave earned his undergraduate degree from Ithaca College in 1991, where he played varsity baseball and earned numerous all-state and all-conference honors. Dave earned his law degree, with honors, from the University of Richmond School of Law in 1995, where he was awarded the Sheppard Scholarship. At Richmond, Dave served as the Senior Notes and Comments Editor of the University of Richmond Law Review, Vice President of the Negotiations Board, was awarded the American Jurisprudence and Corpus Juris Secundum Book Awards for Civil Procedure, and served on the Honor Court.
Articles/Interviews:
• “Don’t Ye Be Getting Busted,” Corporate Counselor (April 2010)
• “Confidential - Building the Case for Protection,” Corporate Counselor (February 2009)
• “To Spy or Not to Spy,” HR Advisor (February 2009)
• “Poaching for Profit,” Inside Counsel (November 2008)
• “Keep It Clean,” Best’s Review (November 2008)
• “Latest Non-Compete Trends Include High-Tech Sleuthing,” Philadelphia Business Journal (September 2008)
• “Work E-Mails: The New Smoking Guns,” Law 360 (September 2008)
• “Companies Keep Watch, Overtly,” National Law Journal (September 2008)
• “Navigating the Wild West of E-Discovery in PA State Court,” The Legal Intelligencer (August 2008)
• “Who Will Tax the Watchers?” BNET.com (August 2008)
• “Castor Oil Creates Courtroom Drama,” Lube Report (June 2008)
• “Montco Jury Awards $7 Mil. in Trade Secrets Case,” The Legal Intelligencer (May 28, 2008) – Article featuring jury award which was obtained for our client, Jacob Stern & Sons, Inc.
Presentations and Speeches:
• “Client Stories re: Gaps in E-Discovery,” DELVACCA Presentation at the Union League (November 18, 2008)
• “No Non-Compete: No Problem: Dealing with Employee-Competition Claims in a Digital World,” Seventh Annual DELVACCA General Counsel Forum (September 25, 2008)
• “Overcoming Admissibility Hurdles Unique to Electronic Records,” American Conference Institute’s 6th Annual Advanced Forum on Document Management E-Discovery (September 18, 2008)