Admitted to Practice | Alaska, 1981 | | U.S. Supreme Court | | U.S. District Court District of Alaska | | U.S. District Court District of Washington | | U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit |
| Dave Oesting represents clients in commercial, bankrupcty and maritime litigation and transactions. He assists a wide variety of business and individual clients in complex and class action commercial contract and tort litigation. Dave also has extensive experience representing creditors in bankruptcy proceedings. Selected Experience AT&T Corp. Ongoing Ongoing defense of Alaska cost recovery claims involving allegations under state law concerning the cleanup of PCBs at a former U.S. defense site. Class of fishermen, processors, Alaska natives, landowners and businesses 2008 Court-appointed lead counsel for 30,000 plaintiffs represented by 60 law firms in the consolidated proceedings of more than 250 lawsuits, both class actions and direct actions, filed on behalf of fishermen, processors, Alaska natives, landowners, businesses, and others injured as a result of the spill of 11.8 million gallons of North Slope crude oil into the coastal waters of Alaska by the Exxon Valdez. A four-month jury trial resulted in a verdict awarding plaintiff clients $297 million compensatory damages and $5 billion punitive damages. Infor Global Solutions 2008 Defended software developer against claims by State of Alaska for breach of contract before state administrative agency. Additional Qualifications Professional and Community Activities
- American Bar Association
- Anchorage Bar Association
- American Bankruptcy Institute
- Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
- Anchorage Chamber of Commerce
- Commonwealth North
- Special Counsel to the Anchorage Organizing Committee in its efforts to host the Winter Olympic Games
- Board of Directors, Alaska Native Heritage Center
- Discipline and Hearings Officer, Alaska Bar Association
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Professional Recognition
- Named as one of "America's Leading Lawyers for Business " in Bankruptcy/Restructuring and Litigation:General Commercial (Alaska), 2003-2008, and in Litigation: General Commercial (Alaska), 2009, by Chambers USA
- Named as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” in Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law by Woodward/White 1983-present; named in Commercial Litigation, 1995-present; named in Environmental Law, 2008-present; named in Bet-the-Company Litigation, 2010
- Named as one of the "Leaders in their Field" by Chambers USA, 2005
- Selected to “Alaska Super Lawyers” in Business Litigation, Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights, and Environmental Litigation, Law & Politics, 2009
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Education J.D., Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, 1970, with honors
- Editor-in-Chief, Washington University Law Quarterly
- Order of the Coif
B.A., Earlham College, 1967 | |