David D. O’Donnell
Member

Practice Areas:
Civil Rights; Employment Defense; Constitutional Law; Voting Rights Litigation; Insurance Coverage Law; Business Litigation; Products Liability; All Terrain Vehicle Products Liability; Products Liability Defense; Tire Defect Litigation

Born:
Detroit, Michigan, September 3, 1956

College:
American University School of International Service, B.S., 1980; Georgetown University

Law School:
University of Mississippi, J.D., 1985

Membership:
Lafayette County and American (Member, Section on Litigation, Committee on Employment and Labor Relations) Bar Associations; Mississippi State Bar; The Florida Bar; Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association; Member, Defense Research Institute (Civil Rights Section); Member, International Association of Defense Counsel.

Admissions:
1987, Florida; 1988, Mississippi, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida; U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court

Biography:
David D. O’Donnell has more than 20 years of experience in employment and business litigation, with particular expertise in constitutional and civil rights questions and government defense. He also has handled government annexations and legislative redistricting. Mr. O’Donnell works in the Clayton O'Donnell, PLLC Oxford office.

Mr. O’Donnell has published several articles and authored Mississippi Automobile Insurance Law and Practice, a legal practice text used by attorneys and insurance professionals.

An Adjunct Professor of pretrial and trial practice at the University of Mississippi School of Law, Mr. O’Donnell also speaks regularly at legal certification seminars.

Mr. O’Donnell is counsel to the Lafayette County Board of Supervisors.

Mr. O’Donnell obtained his undergraduate degree from the American University (School of International Service) in 1980 and received his juris doctor from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1985. He served as the research and article editor for the University of Mississippi Law review. He was a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Neal B. Biggers of the Northern District of Mississippi from 1985-1987.

Mr. O’Donnell is admitted to practice in all Mississippi and Florida courts, the U.S. District Courts for the Middle District of Florida and the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi, the Fifth and Eleventh Circuit U.S. Courts of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mr. O’Donnell is AV Peer Review Rated by Martindale Hubble.