David M. Gossett

David Gossett focuses his practice on US Supreme Court and appellate litigation, with particular emphasis on administrative law, ERISA, class actions, federal preemption, and arbitration.

Recently named by Washingtonian Magazine as one of the "Top 40 Lawyers Under 40" in Washington, and by Lawdragon Magazine as one of its "Lawdragon 500 New Stars, New Worlds" recipients, David argued his second case before the US Supreme Court in March 2006. He has also argued in the Ninth Circuit, the Eleventh Circuit, the New Jersey Supreme Court, and various state and federal trial courts, and has drafted numerous briefs in the US Supreme Court and various other federal and state courts of appeals.

Prior to joining Mayer Brown in 2000, David practiced in the Civil Division at the US Department of Justice (1998-2000). He has also twice been a Visiting Associate Professor at the Riga Graduate School of Law (summers of 1999 and 2000), and, between 1997 and 1998, clerked for the Honorable Diane P. Wood on the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He is one of the founders of The Green Bag, a quarterly law journal, and has served as its Executive Editor since 1997. David is conversant in French and Italian.