David Weinstein is the Managing Shareholder of the Tampa Office and Chairs the firm’s national Environmental & Toxic Torts Litigation Practice. David has an active civil and white-collar litigation practice, with an emphasis on environmental, toxic tort, real estate, business, health care, and other challenging matters. In the civil context, he represents clients in class actions, mass torts, and other complex litigation. David also represents organizations and individuals in federal, state, and local criminal investigations. In both the civil and criminal areas, David has experience assisting clients with developing and implementing crisis management and public relations strategies. He has wide-ranging “first-chair” trial experience in jury and non-jury trials, as well as arbitrations.

David has a long record of service to the legal profession and the community, including the following positions: Member, Board of Directors, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay; Member, Board of Trustees, Straz Center for the Performing Arts; Member, Former Chair, Environmental Enforcement and Crimes Committee, ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources; and Former Co-Chair, Criminal Litigation and Enforcement Subcommittee, ABA Environmental Litigation Committee. He is also a member of the Herbert G. Goldburg Inn of Court and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. A fourth-degree black belt, David served as the senior instructor of Tampa Moo Duk Kwan, a not-for-profit martial arts club.

The International Who’s Who of Environmental Lawyers has referred to David as “one of the leading practitioners in the world.” The 2018 Chambers USA Guide notes: that David “has a stellar reputation” and possesses a “wealth of expertise in high-stakes civil and white-collar criminal disputes. He offers additional strengths in appellate work, healthcare disputes, and wider business litigation. Interviewees report that he ‘has good judgement and is a pleasure to work with.’” The 2017 Guide notes: that David is “well known for his litigation and trial expertise and excels in a broad range of environmental matters. Clients say he is ‘incredibly skilled and adept in the courtroom.’” The 2016 Guide affirms: “Peers highlight his abilities in court, stating: He’s top-notch, he’s one of the best. If I was accused of a white-collar environmental crime I would use him. He’s tenacious, bright and extremely capable.” The 2015 Guide describes David as “a really fabulous lawyer . . . well-liked by clients . . . the kind of guy you would want leading the charge if you had a problem.”

Greenberg Traurig, LLP.

Greenberg Traurig (GT) is dedicated to elevating how our clients experience legal services. At the core of this commitment is our Innovative Client Strategies Team. This multi-disciplinary team of attorneys and business professionals focuses solely on developing client experience based innovation. To elevate our clients’ experience, we focus on delivering more than just high-quality legal advice – we strive to deliver enhanced value, better insights, and more predictability.

At GT we leverage six innovation drivers—optimized staffing, improved planning, value-based pricing, strategic legal insights, productivity applications and our culture of innovation—to enhance our clients’ experience. By applying these drivers to the traditional legal model, we create innovative strategies that enable our attorneys to improve predictability, provide better insights, and ultimately deliver more value. Collaborating with our clients to meet their goals has always been a core principle at GT—deploying innovative strategies enables us to provide a best-in-class experience as we work to meet those goals.

For decades, GT has fostered a culture of entrepreneurship and collaboration, positioning our attorneys to provide the quality and value our clients seek. We have always looked outside of the traditional legal model for ways to provide better service to our clients. More than 50 years after our founding, we remain focused on developing innovative strategies that help our clients navigate the ever-changing legal and business environments.