David C. Greer
Partner
Professional Experience
Primary areas of practice
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Appeals
- Business litigation
- Criminal defense
- Construction litigation
- Employment law
- Litigation
- Professional liability
- White collar criminal defense
1962
Admitted to the practice of Law
The State of Ohio
1962
Joined Bieser Greer
Education
1962
Yale Law School
LL.B Cum Laude
1961-62
Order of the Coif
Editor of Yale Law Journal
1959
Yale University
Bachelor of Arts -- Summa Cum Laude -- Phi Beta Kappa- Mediator, Arbitrator and counsel in Defense of Legal Malpractice cases and Representation of Respondents in Disciplinary Counsel.
- Primary areas of practice include business disputes, civil and criminal litigation and alternative dispute resolution as well as Mediator in Civil Disputes.
- Represents lawyers, judges and law firms in malpractice claims and disciplinary cases.
- Defended hundreds of medical and other professional negligence cases
- Represented plaintiffs and defendants in case involving business and commercial disputes, product liability, personal injury, patent and intellectual property
- Represented the Dayton Board of Education in its marathon desegregation litigation which involved two separate oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court
- Assisted Mead Data Central in copyright litigation arising out of the Westlaw-Lexis dispute
- Court examiner in Baldwin United Bankruptcy
- Served as defense attorney in numerous criminal trials
Professional Activities
- • Best Lawyers Bet-the-Company Litigator of the Year 2009, 2010, 2014
- • Listed in Ohio Super Lawyers
- • Rated No.1 in Ohio Super Lawyers 2004, 2005
- • Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers since 1979; Member of the Ohio State Committee and Ohio
- • State Committee Chair 1988-89
- • Fellow, Ohio State Bar Foundation
- • Listed in Best Lawyers in America in categories of personal injury and business litigation
- • Dayton Business Journal "Best of the Bar 2004", and "Best of the Bar 2005"
- • Life member of the Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference
- • Ohio State Bar Association
- • Dayton Bar Association (President 1981-82)
- • Participant in various CLE programs including 1990 University of Michigan Advocacy Institute
Community Activities
- • Former Trustee, The Human Race Theatre Company
- • Trustee, Dayton Law Library (past President)
- • Former Trustee, Ohio Historical Foundation
- • Former Trustee, Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library 1991 to 2002 (President 1998-2002)
- • Former Trustee, United Way of the Dayton Area (President 1980-81)
- • Former Trustee, Dayton Chapter of the American Red Cross
- • Former Trustee, International Association of Jazz Record Collectors (President 1982-83)
- • Former Trustee, Fretted Instrument Guild of America (Vice President 1988-90, President 1990-92)
- • Leader (banjo, guitar, vocals), Classic Jazz Stompers since 1981