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DAVID W. BERRY
Selected as one of Northern California's Rising Stars in the legal community in 2009, David W. Berry is one of Sonoma County’s best trial lawyers.
His client list includes individuals, small businesses and large corporations with disputes ranging from simple to complex. As personal counsel to many clients, he provides services ranging from negotiation and litigation avoidance during the early stages of a dispute to all phases of litigation through trial.
Mr. Berry’s practice focuses on business advice, real property caims, and resolving construction defect disputes. The scope of his business advice includes negotiation and litigation regarding all types of contracts and leases and other business claims. The real property claims include negotiation
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and resolution of disputes regarding all types of property rights including easements, agreed boundaries, lot line adjustments, prescription and adverse possession. With respect to construction defect claims, he represents homeowners and building owners in residential and commercial construction defect claims against designers and builders of defective projects.
Mr. Berry consistently obtains outstanding results for clients. He has achieved numerous multi-million dollar settlements for clients who have suffered damage
while defending and settling multi-million dollar claims against clients for cents on the dollar.
In addition to his commitment to clients, Mr. Berry is a leader in the Sonoma County community. In 2008, he was recognized by the North Bay Business Journal as one of the forty exceptional business leaders under forty years of age in Sonoma, Marin, and Napa Counties. Recently, he graduated as a member of the twenty-fifth class of Leadership Santa Rosa, which is a year-long educational program for selected community leaders and is intended to develop and equip class members via exposure to pertinent issues, broad thinkers and the richness of Santa Rosa and Sonoma County.
Mr. Berry has a long and consistent history of community service. He was the President of Legal Aid of Sonoma County and a member of its Board of Directors from 2001 through 2005. In 2009, he formed the idea for a Real Property Section of the Sonoma County Bar Association, which he subsequently helped found and is its inaugural chairman. He is on the board of the Sonoma County Bar Association, is a member of the American Inns of Court, and was a member of the Bench/Bar Committee of the Sonoma County Bar Association and the Santa Rosa Active 20-30 Club, which helps underprivileged children in our community.
Education:
University of California, Berkeley (B.A., 1992)
Recipient of the Student Life Achievement Award, 1992.
University of California, Hastings College of the Law (J.D., 1995)
Hastings Law Journal, Member.
Admitted:
California (1995)
United States District Court, Northern District
of California (2000)
United States District Court, Southern District
of California (2004)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2000)
Affiliations:
Legal Aid of Sonoma County (President, 2005; Director, 2001-2005).
Leadership Santa Rosa, Class 25 Member.
Sonoma County Bar Association, Real Property Section (current
Chairman).
Sonoma County Bar Association (current Board of Directors member).
American Inns of Court (Richard M. Sangster Chapter).
State Bar of California.
Santa Rosa Active 20-30 Club, former member
Speaking / Teaching Experience:
Evidence Code § 1119: What You Don’t Know About It Will Hurt You. Presented with Hon. William Bettinelli on February 26, 2009.
Law of Easements: Legal Issues and Practical Considerations in California. Day-long seminar presented with three other experts in 2007 and 2008.
Publications:
When Your Commercial Building Is A Lemon.
Published with W. Barton Weitzenberg and Patrick W. Emery in the Best of the North Bay issue of NorthBay Biz magazine, 2007.
Buying Property Can Pose Substantial Risks. Published in the Business
Section of the Press Democrat, May 14, 2007.
Drawing The Line, an article about property issues and rights published in NorthBay Biz magazine, June 2006.
Asserting Your Rights In A Neighborly Way. Published in the Business Section of the Press Democrat, June 19, 2006.
Honors/Awards:
Northern California Rising Star, which identifies Mr. Berry as one of the top trial attorneys in Sonoma County, as selected by Super Lawyers, 2009.
Forty under 40 recipient. Selected by North Bay Business Journal
as one of the forty exceptional business leaders under forty years of age in Sonoma, Marin, and Napa Counties.
Leadership Santa Rosa graduate, 2009. This is a year-long educational program for selected community leaders and is intended to develop and equip class members via
exposure to pertinent issues, broad thinkers and the richness of Santa Rosa and Sonoma County.
Specialties:
Civil Litigation
Business Litigation
Real Estate Litigation
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