David Allen

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David Allen is passionate about helping people who suffer injury. His grounding is in the insurance industry. In his early 20s he became the youngest claims supervisor for CNA insurance. David handled over 20,000 claims before attending law school and developed strong insight as to how insurance companies operate. When he attended law school he focused on the courses which would assist him in representing persons who suffered injury, disability or were being badly treated by insurance companies. He was recognized for outstanding ability in trial advocacy and helped the state of California draft its policies on legal advertising.

To a large extent the passion David Allen brings to representing people who suffer injury, disability or who are attempting to get a fair recovery from their insurance company arises from his child hood experience in Wisconsin.

His father was a mill worker with a sixth grade education who suffered a severe back injury. He saw him struggle with the injury throughout his life and saw the difficulties he confronted in attempting to provide for his family and carry on a normal life. Growing up in a working class small town, he frequently witnessed the plight of people around him attempting to get fair treatment when injured.

David Allen graduated from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, and did post graduate work at Harvard Law School. After graduation from law school he worked for another law firm exclusively handling personal injury cases and taking them to trial. He founded David Allen & Associates in 1980.

Today David Allen is the principal attorney in a law firm that prides itself on bringing legal help to people who confront difficulties arising from injury or disability.

Year Founded Organization:

1980

Areas of Practice:

• Personal Injury Claims
• Coverage Issues and Negotiation Techniques
• Insurance Bad Faith emphasizing wrongful denial of Long Term Disability benefits
• Social Security Disability

Bar Admissions:

• California, 1979
• Nevada, 1978
• Wisconsin, 1985
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of California
• U.S. District Court Southern District of California
• U.S. District Court Northern District of California
• U.S. District Court District of Nevada

Education:

• McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, California, JD
• Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts – postgraduate work

Honors, Awards and Activities:

Outstanding Ability in Trial Advocacy

Published Works:

Author of the introduction to “Many Hands,” a book which describes the role of the Sacramento Food Bank in providing assistance to those in need of basic necessities, housing and family assistance in the Sacramento region.

Pro Bono and Volunteer Activities:

• East Sacramento Improvement Association Board of Directors
• Air Port Noise Reduction Committee
• President of Nevada Policy Research Institute
• Head of the 125th Anniversary Committee for St. John’s Lutheran Church
• Active lay reader and Lay Eucharistic Minister for Northern Diocese of California
• Legal commentator for KFBK radio and host of “Law Talk” an hour long call in A.M. radio show
• Legal commentator for KXTV television
• Volunteer attorney for the Las Vegas Rescue Mission
• Volunteer and contributor
• St. John’s Women’s Shelter
• Sacramento Food Bank
• Loaves and Fishes
• Nature Conservancy
• Pacific Law Foundation

Professional Activities:

• American Trial Lawyers Association
• Nevada Trial Lawyers Association
• Consumer Attorneys of California
• Capitol City Consumer Attorneys
• State Bar of Wisconsin, past board of directors member for non-resident lawyers division
• Nevada Supreme Court select commission on lawyer advertising