Experience 

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.

David was recently elected to the American Law Institute (ALI). He was also selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2009 and 2010 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® in the specialty of Appellate Law, and has been recognized 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 has argued two cases in the US Supreme Court; has also argued in the Second, Fourth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits, the New Jersey Supreme Court, the Illinois Court of Appeals, 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.

Education 

University of Chicago Law School, JD, with High Honors, 1997; Order of the Coif; Associate Editor, The University of Chicago Law Review • University of Colorado, Graduate Studies, 1993-1994; National Science Foundation Fellow • University of Pennsylvania, MA, 1993; National Science Foundation Fellow • Reed College, BA, 1991

Admitted

• US Supreme Court, 2001
• US Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and District of Columbia Circuits, 1997–2009
• US District Court for the District of Columbia, 2001
• US District Court for the District of Maryland, 2000
• District of Columbia, 2000
• Illinois, 1997