David M. Rownd is a Partner in Thompson Coburn's business litigation group, handling cases involving breach of contract, fraud and deceptive business practices, interference with business relationships, restrictive covenants and trade secrets, partnership and shareholder disputes, real estate and land use matters, class actions, complex injury claims and insurance matters. He has tried bench and jury trials in state and federal courts, conducted hearings before administrative agencies and represented clients in arbitrations and mediations before domestic and international alternative dispute resolution tribunals. He has substantial experience prosecuting and defending emergency proceedings for injunctive relief.
David received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and his law degree from Washington University in St. Louis. He is admitted to practice before the Illinois state courts, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and federal district courts in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin and he has been admitted pro hac vice for various cases in numerous courts across the country. He has been selected for inclusion numerous times in the annual Illinois Super Lawyers® in business litigation, and in 2009 he was invited to become a Fellow of the honorary trial lawyer society, Litigation Counsel of America.
David represents clients in the telecommunications, real estate, manufacturing, technology, financial services and insurance industries. In addition to handling litigation matters for large publicly traded companies, David represents a number of closely held companies and individual entrepreneurs, drawing on his experience to counsel clients on business strategy, financing, risk management, dispute resolution and finding creative solutions to difficult business problems.