David Dormont

• District of Columbia
• Minnesota
• Pennsylvania
• United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• United States District Court for the District of Columbia
• United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
• United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

• Obtained complete defense verdict in defamation and false light action in favor of Transport Workers Union Local 234’s former president, its key officers, and members of its Executive Board brought by an unsuccessful candidate for the union’s presidency. The plaintiff sought punitive damages and approximately $675,000 in compensatory damages. After a six-day jury trial in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, the jury returned a verdict for our clients on all counts.
• Tried valuation and plan confirmation case on behalf of Official Committee of Equity Security Holders in the billion-dollar plus bankruptcy in Delaware
• Obtained judgment for labor union in a Duty of Fair Representation case after trying a two-day federal bench trial
• Serves as outside general counsel to a national flooring distributor
• Lead trial counsel during an 12-day federal jury trial representing a national flooring manufacturer in a breach-of-contract suit filed by its former distributor, seeking a multi-million dollar damages award
• Obtained summary judgment and successfully defended an appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on behalf of majority owner/president of closely-held corporation in veil piercing action brought by minority owner/officer
• Successfully defended national flooring distributor against a $6 million counterclaim brought by former distributor during a 2011 jury trial
• Recovered more than $160 million in settlement from claims brought by the Chapter 7 Trustee of a failed subprime lender against the Debtor’s former attorneys, the Debtor’s former accountants and several Wall Street investment banks that had extended warehouse financing and had served as underwriters for the failed lender’s securitization of subprime mortgages
• Recovered a $24 million judgment, including a $7 million punitive damage award, against a large, national bank on claims for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraudulent and negligent misrepresentation in two separate jury trials
• Recovered a $6 million settlement on behalf of Chapter 11 Trustee in claims for breach of fiduciary duty, fraudulent transfer and deepening of the insolvency against shareholders, former officers, directors and others; settled claims against national bank and recovered $500,000 for the Estate and subordination of lender’s $4 million claim
• Recovered an eight-figure verdict in a breach of contract case involving a dispute with respect to a television station
• Successfully defended a furnace manufacturer in product liability case, including obtaining the key evidentiary ruling that led to summary judgment
• Successfully defended client against $68 million confessed judgment

• Speaker at the Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism Symposium, November 18, 2019
• Panelist at the American Zionist Movement Discussion Forum at the U.S. Capitol, September 6, 2018
• Presenter at the Chester County Bar Association Spring Bench Bar Conference on the topic of tax issues for litigators, March 31, 2016
• Chief presenter on e-discovery at a City of Philadelphia Law Department continuing legal education program, July 2014
• Lectured to the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Association of Legal Secretaries on a variety of topics, including ethics, fraud, evidence and the duties of nonprofit board members, 2009-2013

• Co-author, “CFPB Adopts Strict Liability Standard for Debt Collectors Who Sue or Threaten Suit Over Time-Barred Debt,” The Temple 10-Q, April 2021
• Co-author, “CFPB Adopts Strict Liability Standard for Debt Collectors Who Sue or Threaten Suit Over Time-Barred Debt,” January 2021
• Co-author, “Rebutting the Presumption of Insolvency During a Pandemic,” ABI Journal, November 2020
• Co-author, “Virus Relief Bill Could Harm Lending, Collections Landscape,” Law360, September 2020
• Co-author, “Proposed HEROES Act Poses Great Risks to Those Extending Credit or Attempting to Collect on a Debt,” August 2020
• Co-author, “Preference Payments in Bankruptcy: Rebutting the Presumption of Insolvency during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” June 2020
• Co-author, “How Employers Should Prepare for the Restart of Business,” April 2020
• Co-author, “WARN Obligations In Light of COVID-19,” March 2020
• Featured in, “Montgomery McCracken Adds 2 Litigation Partners In Philly,” Law360, July 2, 2015
• Separate and Unequal: School District Financing, 11 Law Ineq. J. 261 (1992)
• Note, For the Good of the Adult: An Examination of the Constitutionality of Using Prior Juvenile Adjudications to Enhance Adult Sentences, 75 Minn. L. Rev. 1769 (1991)

• Recognized in Benchmark Litigation as a Top Litigator, 2019
• Recognized as a Pennsylvania “Super Lawyer”, 2013 -2014
• Recognized as “Chapter Supporter of the Year” by ORT America, 2005
• Presented with the President’s Award by ORT America, 2003

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• Philadelphia Bar Association
• Montgomery Bar Association
  • Bench Bar Committee, member
  • Montgomery Bar Foundation, fellow

• Jewish Agency for Israel
  • Board of Directors
• Montgomery County Development Corporation
  • Board of Directors
• Democratic Committee of Lower Merion and Narberth
• Maternity Care Coalition
  • Finance Committee Member
• Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia
• Neighborhood Club of Bala Cynwyd

Law School

• University of Minnesota Law School

Graduate School

• University of Pennsylvania

Undergraduate School

• University of Pennsylvania