David M. Rosen

David Rosen is the current president-elect of the Oregon State Bar. He is a founding member and past chair of the Deschutes County Access to Justice Committee, the past president of the Oregon Law Foundation, and a past president of the Deschutes County Bar Association. David is honored to have been selected to the Oregon Super Lawyers list for the past several years.

David began his career in the legal field in 2001, working as an economist for a large, Washington, D.C. firm on the Department of Justice's RICO case against the Tobacco companies. He was later hired by that same firm as a summer associate and, upon graduation from law school, as an associate assisting in the representation of Fortune 500 companies in the fields of internet service providers, telecommunication companies, and major retailers of household goods.

In 2010 David returned to Central Oregon with his family, where he founded High Desert Law and has exclusively practiced personal injury law since 2011. He also offers mediation and arbitration services for personal injury matters that are handled by other attorneys. While many civil attorneys seldom get to court, David has arbitrated and mediated injury and accident cases throughout a good deal of Oregon and tried cases to 12-person juries in Deschutes, Jackson, Josephine, and Klamath counties.

Leveraging a well-rounded background in law, economics, and damage theories, David combines Big Law training with the heart of a person who has gone through the legal process as a plaintiff. He delivers fierce representation for his clients, drawing from this extensive legal experience to advocate for victims of motor vehicle collisions, bicycle and pedestrian accidents, slip and falls, product liability issues and other negligence. David has successfully negotiated, mediated, settled and arbitrated numerous cases with all the big insurance companies and established a reputation of providing top notch representation in a uniquely compassionate manner.

David attended the University of Maryland School of Law on a full scholarship, where he was mentored by President Jimmy Carter's Attorney General, Benjamin Civiletti. While in law school, David spent a semester working in the United States Senate for Ron Wyden and at the United States Department of Justice, main building. David's undergraduate degree is from the University of Pennsylvania.