David Watson

Attorney | Complex Business & Commercial Litigation

Dallas, Texas, United States

About

I am a member of the national commercial litigation practice group at Dinsmore & Shohl. My practice focuses on complex business and commercial litigation across a wide spectrum of industries, including business disputes, financial services and banking litigation, complex tort defense, and real estate litigation. Additionally, I have litigated cases involving intellectual property, including trademark infringement, and employment matters. I have experience representing a broad array of clients including Fortune 500 companies with sophisticated in-house legal departments and business owners in entrepreneurial startups. I have also worked on high stakes international white collar investigations and international trade compliance matters. I previously served as a member of a court-appointed legal team tasked with monitoring a foreign telecommunications company in the largest export compliance and trade sanctions monitorship in U.S history. In that role, I led and conducted international site visits, investigations, and audits involving dozens of countries and evaluated the company’s compliance with its obligations under settlement and plea agreements reached with the Bureau of Industry and Security, Office of Foreign Asset Control, and the Department of Justice.

Experience

  • Associate at Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Cooper & Scully, P.C. ()
    • Senior Associate Attorney
      Apr 2025 - Jul 2025 · 4 mos

    • Associate Attorney
      Jun 2024 - Apr 2025 · 11 mos

  • Associate Attorney at Platt Cheema Richmond PLLC
    2022 - 2024 · 2 yrs

  • Attorney at Stanton LLP
    2019 - 2022 · 3 yrs

  • SMU Dedman School of Law (1 yr 2 mos)
    • Research Assistant
      May 2017 - May 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Research Assistant to Professor Marc Steinberg working on a new Securities Law textbook for the Securities Regulation course and another book on a high profile insider trading case. Subject-matter is centered on Securities Litigation, with a focus on insider trading.

    • International Moot Court
      Apr 2017 - Apr 2017 · 1 mo

      Represented SMU Dedman School of Law as brief-writer and oral advocate in the Wilhelm C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. The tournament hosted over 4,000 law students, lawyers, arbitrators, and judges from across the globe with over 350 law schools represented. The subject matter of the case centered on an alleged breach of contract in a multi-million dollar international transaction between two corporations.