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Education & Training:
Harvard Law School, J.D. cum laude (1988)
- Editor, HARVARD LAW REVIEW (Vols. 100 & 101)
Georgetown University, B.S.F.S. magna cum laude (1985)
Areas of Concentration:
Business Litigation
Complex Commercial Litigation
International Commercial Arbitration
Mexican Law (expert)
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Bar Admissions:
State Bar of Texas (1988)
State Bar of California (1990)
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
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Biography:
David Lopez began his legal career in 1988 as an attorney with the San Antonio Community Law
Center, a private non-profit legal services organization that he co-founded and that continues to
serve working poor families even today. In 1990, Mr. Lopez moved to Los Angeles, California, to
work as a litigation associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, California's largest law firm. During
that time, he worked on various lawsuits, including several major class actions.
In 1992, Mr. Lopez returned to San Antonio to work as a trial lawyer at Davis, Adami & Cedillo. In 1993, he left
private practice to join the faculty at St. Mary's Law School, teaching in the areas of litigation and international
law. Between 1993 and 2001, Mr. Lopez was promoted to Professor of Law with tenure, taught over a thousand law
students, served as the Law School's first Associate Dean for Administration, and published various books and
articles (including texts on Mexican law and NAFTA). Mr. Lopez also served as a visiting faculty member at the
University of California-Davis (1997-1998) and in Baylor Law School's summer program in Guadalajara, Mexico
(1996-2000).
Mr. Lopez returned to law practice in June 2001, initially serving Of Counsel to the law firm of Davis, Cedillo
& Mendoza, and then as a partner at the firm from January 2003 until December 2007. During this period, Mr. Lopez
worked primarily as a defense lawyer, representing companies, organizations and individuals in complex litigation in
Texas and elsewhere. He devoted most of 2007 to representing plaintiffs in a complex dispute involving one of the nation's
largest banks. Over the years, in addition to successfully defending clients who have been sued, he has helped clients
who were plaintiffs obtain verdicts and settlements worth millions of dollars.
Mr. Lopez is AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell and a member of The Million Dollar Advocates Forum.
Books and Other Publications:
Co-Author, MEXICAN LAW (together with Professor Stephen Zamora of the University of Houston Law Center and Director
José Ramón Cossío Díaz, Professor Leonel Pereznieto Castro, and Professor José Roldán Xopa of the Instituto
Tecnológico Autónomo de México) (Oxford University Press 2004)
Co-Author, NAFTA: A PROBLEM ORIENTED COURSEBOOK (together with Professor Ralph Folsom of the University of San Diego
School of Law and Professor Michael W. Gordon of the University of Florida College of Law) (West Publishing Co. 2000)
Co-Author, 2000 DOCUMENTS SUPPLEMENT TO NAFTA: A PROBLEM ORIENTED COURSEBOOK (together with Folsom and Gordon)
(West Publishing Co. 2000)
Co-Author, TEACHER'S MANUAL TO ACCOMPANY NAFTA: A PROBLEM ORIENTED COURSEBOOK (together with Folsom and Gordon)
(West Publishing Co. 2000)
Author, The Legal System of Mexico, Chapter 3, MODERN LEGAL SYSTEMS CYCLOPEDIA (William S. Hein & Co. 2000)
Lead Article, Dispute Resolution Under NAFTA: Lessons from the Early Experience, 32 TEX. INT'L L.J. 163 (1997)
Lead Article, Dispute Resolution Under MERCOSUR from 1991 to 1996: Implications for the Formation of a Free
Trade Area of the Americas, 3 NAFTA LAW & BUS REV. OF THE AMERICAS 3 (Spring 1997)
Article, Dispute Resolution Under a Free Trade Area of the Americas: The Shape of Things to Come, 28 U.
MIAMI INTER-AM. L. REV. 597 (1997)
Article, Why Texas Courts are Defenseless Against Frivolous Appeals: A Historical Analysis with
Proposals for Reform, 48 BAYLOR L. REV. 51 (1996)
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