David M. Grable

Dave Grable is Co-Chair of the National Trial Practice at Quinn Emanuel, and also serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s Blockchain & Digital Asset Litigation Practice.  He represents companies and individuals in civil and criminal matters across the country.  He focuses on making complicated factual and legal issues simple and understandable for juries, judges, and other decision makers.

On the civil side, clients call on Mr. Grable to lead litigation of their most important cases, including matters with alleged damages in the nine, ten, and even eleven-figure range (i.e. tens of billions of dollars).  He has litigated across a broad range of areas, including disputes about corporate governance, fraud, trade secret theft, digital assets and blockchain technology, intellectual property, securities, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duties, product liability, and insurance bad faith.

On the criminal/regulatory side, Mr. Grable has represented companies and individuals in investigations related to securities, FCPA, accounting, health care, antitrust, tax, and other regulatory issues.  Mr. Grable has also represented individuals charged with federal and state crimes in pretrial, trial, and post-trial settings.

Before joining Quinn Emanuel, Mr. Grable served as a federal prosecutor in the Northern District of New York, where he successfully tried cases to juries and argued appeals to the Second Circuit.  Mr. Grable also worked on anti-terrorism matters, had top secret clearance, and investigated and prosecuted the first ever material support of terrorism case brought in the Northern District of New York.