Contact
MD Office: (240) 482-2849
DC Office: (202) 543-8880
Cell: (202) 492-4273
Fax: (202) 470-2240
4550 Montgomery Avenue
Suite 1100 N
Bethesda, MD 20814
Awards and Honors
- Rotary Fellowship, National University of Singapore
Admissions
- Admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Florida, Maryland, and New York
- Admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, various U.S. courts of appeals and U.S. district courts
Education
- Columbia University School of Law, J.D., 1991 (honors 1990-91)
- Harvard College, A.B. with honors, 1986
David has been practicing law for more than twenty years. He represents non-profits, commercial enterprises, and individuals. His practice includes contracts, litigation, regulatory compliance, employment matters, governance, non-profit tax issues, intellectual property and immigration work. He serves as counsel to numerous non-profit foundations.
David began his career as a law clerk to a United States District Judge. He has worked as a lawyer for the Legal Aid Society in New York City, and as a supervising attorney and trainer for a U.S. non-governmental organization providing legal systems development services in Cambodia. He also was an associate in the litigation department of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in Washington, D.C.
David was a law partner at two firms in Washington, D.C., Swidler Berlin, LLP and Bingham McCutchen, LLP, before forming Schaner & Lubitz. He practiced litigation and managed the firms’ public interest programs.
David has extensive experience at all federal and state court levels and experience representing clients before various U.S. government agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security.