David K. Groome, Jr. represents insurance companies and their insureds professional liability, product liability, property loss and personal injury litigation. As part of Deutsch Kerrigan’s rescue counsel team, David takes over as trial counsel on an emergency basis when other firms are not prepared to take their clients’ cases to trial. In both emergency and non-emergency matters, David serves as defense counsel for matters involving:
- Products liability (petrochemical plants, latex gloves, scaffolds, marine hoists, elevators, heavy machinery, municipal water purification systems, and airplane composites and design)
- Transportation claims (commercial vehicles, rail cars, heavy transport, and barges)
- Extra-contractual liability (excess claims, errors and omissions, and professional liability)
- Professional liability (errors and omissions and medical malpractice)
- Chemical exposure (benzene, asbestos, silica, phosgene and lead)
When faced with pending litigation, David’s clients look to his industry specific knowledge to help them efficiently achieve favorable results. For more intransigent matters, he focuses on quickly understanding the industry-specific issues involved and providing his clients with cost-effective defense representation on determinative issues. For several clients, David serves as lead attorney statewide in both Louisiana and Mississippi.
David has a thriving litigation practice, having handled more than 100 jury trials since beginning his career in the District Attorney’s Office for Orleans Parish, where he tried cases as part of the federally funded Violent Offenses Task force.
Born in Louisiana and raised in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil, David speaks Portuguese and Spanish. He enjoys traveling and often enjoys matching the pace set by his wife, Sanda, who teaches at Tulane University and in Innsbruck, Austria for six weeks during the summer, often with their three children.
- Louisiana State University (J.D.)
- Tulane University (B.A.)
- Louisiana
- Mississippi
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
American Bar Association
Louisiana State Bar Association
Mississippi Bar Association
Claims & Litigation Management Alliance
The Best Lawyers in America©, 2021-present
AV Preeminent Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Rating™
Alliance for Good Government, Treasurer
- David obtained dismissal for his excess carrier client at no cost to the client midway through trial with multiple co-defendants continuing to defend their respective layers of excess. The plaintiff claimed damages in excess of $50 million.
- David obtained dismissal for subcontractor after filing a motion for summary judgment in a matter involving gas asphyxiation at an industrial site.
- David obtained an involuntary dismissal in a dram shop case involving more than $200,000 in medical bills.
- David obtained an involuntary dismissal based on pre-suit investigation of the professional liability claim prior to lengthy discovery which was later conducted by co-defendants .
- A jury found zero damages after a five-day trial with testimony from the plaintiff’s four psychiatric experts and introduction of extensive medical records.
- David obtained an involuntary dismissal in a case involving an industrial timber plant accident.
- Following an unsuccessful motion for summary judgment filed by a co-defendant, David filed his own motion for summary judgment which was granted in a products liability case involving an alleged roofing defect which was claimed to have led to multiple surgeries for the lead plaintiff.
- David’s aggressive motion practice in a commercial vehicle matter resulted in dismissal of both plaintiff’s cases, at their cost, with one third of the cost being borne personally by their attorney.
