David Gibbs is a business and trial lawyer with a national practice in dispute resolution. He helps clients prevent, manage and resolve disagreements on a broad range of matters involving business, legal and personal issues.
Mr. Gibbs advises owners, boards and senior management of for-profit and non-profit organizations on leadership, succession, governance, compensation, adapting to change and investor relations. He has worked extensively with closely held, family and professional services businesses to deal with planning, consensus building and resolving conflicts. He has advised emerging and middle market businesses as they move through the business cycle from formation, to obtaining capital, managing growth and formulating winning exit strategies. He has assisted organizations and businesses, including trade associations and courts in designing, successfully implementing and upholding dispute resolution programs involved with employees, consumers, franchises, shareholders and business.
Mr. Gibbs has served as a mediator, arbitrator, case evaluator and facilitator on more than two hundred fifty occasions. In those instances where litigation cannot be avoided, Mr. Gibbs has extensive experience representing clients in trials and appeals in federal and state courts, and administrative proceedings. He has tried more than fifty cases, including disputes between owners of closely held and family businesses, mergers and acquisitions, securities, technology and intellectual property matters, labor and employment, consumer class actions, real estate and land use matters.
For many years Mr. Gibbs has been a member of the faculty at Suffolk University Law School teaching courses on Negotiation and Intellectual Property Litigation and is a frequent writer on negotiation and dispute resolution.
Mr. Gibbs was a founder of the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange and served as a Director and Chair of the Nominating Committee. He is listed in Best Lawyers in America in Dispute Resolution and Massachusetts Super Lawyers in Businesses Litigation.
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