About David L. Kern

David L. Kern received his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, Texas in 1983 where he served as an Editor of the Texas Law Review and authored a Law Review article on the rights of indigent civil litigants to appointed counsel. He is licensed to practice law in Texas and the District of Columbia and has been Board Certified in Labor and Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1993. David’s fellow lawyers have recognized him in Texas Super Lawyers for nearly two decades. He is admitted in the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. District Courts for the Western and Northern Districts of Texas, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth, D.C., and Federal Circuits, and the Texas Supreme Court. He also has practiced with affiliated co-counsel in many other jurisdictions nationwide.

For more than 30 years David’s law practice has been strongly focused on wage and hour class action work. He has conducted a nationwide practice in the representation of classes of current and former employees in wage and hour class actions and successfully represented thousands of individuals in such matters in Arizona, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia and Washington (state), among other places. He also has provided services as a consulting and testifying expert in wage and hour class actions.