DAVID WATSON
Associate
Direct Dial: 214-599-4035
dwatson@estesthorne.com

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David’s practice focuses on complex business and commercial litigation. Specific areas of litigation include real estate, intellectual property, and employment matters. David has also worked on high stakes international white collar investigations and conducted extensive corporate audits relating to US government enforcement actions concerning national security matters, compliance with US export control laws, and sanctions relating to the export of sensitive technology.

J.D., SMU Dedman School of Law (2018)

  • Activities and societies: International Law Review Association Associate Managing Editor
  • International Moot Court Competitor
  • Student Bar Association Mentor to 1L Class
  • Board of Advocates Director (Class Representative)
  • Corporate Law Association Vice President

B.A., The University of Texas at Dallas, magna cum laude (2015)

  • Activities and societies: The John Marshall Pre-Law Society President
  • UT Dallas Mock Trial Competitor
  • UT Dallas Mediation Competitor
  • University Discipline Committee Member
  • UNICEF at UT Dallas Volunteer

State Bar of Texas

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas

United States District Court for the Western District of Texas

US Court of International Trade

Member, State Bar of Texas

Member, Dallas Bar Association

Member, Dallas Association of Young Lawyers

Associate, Platt Richmond PLLC, Dallas (2022-2023)

Associate, Stanton LLP, Dallas (2019-2022)

Research Assistant to Professor Marc Steinberg, Dallas (2017-2018)

Judicial Intern to Honorable Carl Ginsberg, Dallas (2016)

  • Recognized, Texas Rising Star, Thomson Reuters as published in Texas Monthly (2024)

Securities and Exchange Commission v Cuban: A Trial of Insider Trading, 47 Sec. Reg. L.J. 189, 293-96 (2019) (book review)