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Attorney David Milton joined the firm in 2007. He previously worked at Moore & Goodman, LLP, a New York City civil rights law firm where he practiced police misconduct, First Amendment, and employment discrimination litigation. Much of his work at Moore & Goodman focused on the rights of antiwar and other political demonstrators, and he was extensively involved in the representation of those arrested during the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York. While in New York, David also worked in the HIV Unit of South Brooklyn Legal Services, where he represented low-income people with HIV/AIDS in housing, benefits, and other wide-ranging civil matters. He also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Allyne R. Ross, a United States District Judge in Brooklyn, and to the Honorable Theodore H. Katz, a United States Magistrate Judge in Manhattan.
David is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and New York, the United States Courts of Appeals for the First and Second Circuits, the United States District Court for District of Massachusetts, and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. David earned his J.D., magna cum laude, in 2001 from New York University School of Law, where he was an Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow. At graduation, David received the Moncrieffe Award for the outstanding student in the area of racism and the law and the Ann Petluck Poses Prize for outstanding work in a student clinic, and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Before law school, he lived in San Francisco and worked in journalism as a writer and editor for Might, a satirical magazine, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, an independent weekly newspaper, and the Socialist Review, a quarterly academic journal. David graduated from Brown University in 1993 with a B.A. in English.
David is the author of "Psychic Income Won't Pay the Rent: A Critique of the Second Circuit's Opinion in Arbor Hill Concerned Citizens Neighborhood Ass'n v. County of Albany," in Steven Saltzman, ed., Civil Rights Litigation and Attorney Fees Annual Handbook, vol. 23, 18-1 (West 2007), and the coauthor, with William Goodman and Jonathan Moore, of "Mass Protest, Mass Arrest and Class Certification: The Struggle for the First and Fourth Amendments in the 21st Century," in Steven Saltzman, ed., Civil Rights Litigation and Attorney Fees Annual Handbook, vol. 20, 5-1 (West 2004). He is a member of the board of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.
