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David E. Suchar 
Associate

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david.suchar@maslon.com

3300 Wells Fargo Center
90 South Seventh Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402

David Suchar is a member of Maslon's Litigation Group. Before joining Maslon, David served as a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Atlanta, Georgia. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney, David represented the United States as lead counsel in hundreds of contested hearings in federal court, including trials, oral arguments in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and numerous evidentiary, pre-trial, and post-conviction proceedings. David's caseload included drug conspiracy, money laundering, bank fraud, passport fraud, identity theft and other felony offenses. Before his Department of Justice service, David was a commercial litigation associate at a prominent national law firm based in Chicago.

During law school, David served as executive editor of the American Criminal Law Review. He received his law degree, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center and his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, with high honor, from DePaul University. Between college and law school, David served as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer and grant writer at Habitat for Humanity.

Areas of Practice
  • Litigation
  • Business Litigation
  • Construction Litigation
  • Intellectual Property Litigation
  • Appeals
Education
  • Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, District of Columbia, 2002
    J.D.
    Honors: cum laude
    Honors:  Dean's List
    Law Review: American Criminal Law Review, Executive Editor
  • DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, 1998
    B.A., with high honor
    Honors:  1997 Truman Scholarship Finalist
Bar Admissions
  • Minnesota, 2011
  • Georgia, 2008
  • Illinois, 2002
  • U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia, 2008
  • U.S. District Court Central District of Illinois, 2004
  • U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois, 2002
  • U.S. District Court Northern District of Indiana, 2005
Publications
  • Procedural Issues, (co-author), Sixteenth Survey of White Collar Crime, 38 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 1151 (2001).

Experience:

  • E.I. Du Pont De Nemours and Co. v. Medtronic, Inc. Currently serving as counsel for Medtronic in a licensing and royalty dispute with Du Pont over technology used in balloon catheters. 
  • Lead counsel for the United States in numerous cases in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, including United States v. Calleja-Sabino (2009) (argued), and United States v. Moses (2010) (argued).
  • Lead trial counsel for the United States in several criminal federal trials in the United States District Court in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Trial counsel for a leading automotive supply company in a week-long bench trial seeking $200 million in wage and benefit concessions from employees and retirees represented by the United Auto Workers and United Steel Workers. Following trial and just prior to the court issuing its ruling, client consensually obtained all of the labor cost reductions it sought at trial (2006).
  • Lead trial counsel for property dispute, winning maximum statutory damages award after bench trial in D.C. Superior Court (2002).
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