David W. Aubrey - Edwardsville, IL

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Southern Illinois University School of Law, Carbondale, Illinois, 2011
    J.D.
    Honors: The Order of Barristers

• Non Legal Education

  • Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, Illinois, 2006
    B.A.
    Major: Applied Linguistics
  • Trinity International University, 2008
    M.A.
    Honors: summa cum laude
    Honors: Master's Student of the Year, 2008; Academic Achievement Award in the Class "International Human Rights & the Environment", 2007; Student Council Senator, 2007
    Major: International Human Rights
  • L'Institut International des Droits de l'Homme, Strasbourg, France, 2007
    Certificate in International Human Rights Law

Current Employment Position(s)

• Partner

Past Positions

• Law Office of the Public Defender of Cook County, Law Clerk, 2009
• Morey & Upton, Attorneys at Law, Law Clerk, 2006 - 2008

Classes and Seminars

• Presented Secondary Exposure and Recent Decisions in Key Jurisdictions - HarrisMartin's Midwest Asbestos Litigation Conference (Sept. 2016)
  
• Jurisdictional Update HarrisMartin's Midwest Asbestos Litigation Conference (Sept. 2018)

Pro Bono Activities

• Member of the ISBA International & Immigration Law Section Council for 2023-2024
• ISBA Tort Law Section Council 2023-2024
• Member of the ISBA International & Immigration Law Section Council for 2022-2023
• Member of the ISBA International & Immigration Law Section Council from 2014-2016
• Volunteer judge on behalf of the Moot Court Board at Southern Illinois University School of Law
• Volunteer for the Pro Bono Panel in the U.S. District Court Southern District of Illinois
• Bar Association of Metropolitan Saint Louis
• Illinois State Bar Association’s Diversity Section Council

Representative Cases

• Mr. Aubrey wrote the winning brief to the Missouri Supreme Court asking the Court to deny Defendants’ petition for an extraordinary writ in the case, State ex rel. Ecology Auto Parts, Inc., et al. vs. The Honorable Michael O’Brien Hendrickson, SC95744 (Mo. 2016)

Published Works

Articles

• Litigating jurisdictional issues in post-Daimler America
  
• Tools for international discovery, The Globe, October 2017, Vol 55 NO. 2
  
• Case Update—Daimler AG v. Bauman 134 S.Ct. 746 (2014), Globe: ISBA Sec. on Int'l & Immgr. Law, June, 2015
  
• The International Criminal Court and Other Forms of International Justice, Globe: ISBA Sec. on Int'l & Immgr. Law, February, 2010
  

Bar Admissions

• Illinois, 2011
• Missouri, 2012
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Illinois, 2012

Other Affiliations

• Illinois State Bar Association
• Chair of ISBA International & Immigration Law Section Council, 2019 - 2020
• Vice Chair of the ISBA Section Council on International & Immigration Law, 2018 - 2019
• ISBA Section Council, 2018 - 2020
• ISBA Section Council on Immigration and International law, - 2018 (Secretary)