David J. Worley - Atlanta, GA

David Worley graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 1980. After two years as a congressional aide, he attended the University of Virginia School of Law, where he won the Johnson & Swanson Award for excellence in written advocacy and was a member of the National Moot Court Team. He earned a Juris Doctor from UVA in 1985.

David Worley has over 30 years of experience in complex civil trial and appellate litigation, with substantial experience in securities, data breach and other consumer class action litigation, and many years representing trustees of union pension funds and international and local unions. He represented major counties in Georgia and other parts of the nation in complex high value Fair Housing Act financial harm cases, relating to the subprime lending and foreclosure crisis, against major money-center banks. He was co-counsel in litigation on behalf of almost every large Georgia county against numerous telephone carriers alleging failure to charge and remit statutorily-required 911 fees. Bankruptcy trustees and other corporate stakeholders relied on Mr. Worley in direct litigation against their company's officers and directors, and against company accounting firms and other professional advisors, for breaches of fiduciary duties and fraud.

Worley has served as Chair of the Labor and Employment Law Sections of both the State Bar of Georgia and the Atlanta Bar Association, and as Co-Chair of the Federal Legislative Developments Committee of the American Bar Association's Committee on Labor and Employment Law. He was a contributing editor to The Fair Labor Standards Act (BNA, 2000) and Discipline and Discharge in Arbitration (BNA, 1998) and has lectured on litigation and arbitration topics at numerous continuing legal education seminars. For many years he was a member of the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee.

From 1998 to 2001, Worley served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of Georgia. He is a former Democratic nominee for the United States Congress, has been a Member of the Democratic National Committee and a delegate to seven Democratic National Conventions. He has also served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Clayton State University Foundation, the Clayton County Library System,Clayton County Aging Program, the Fayette District Committee of the Boy Scouts of America and as. a member of the Georgia State Election Board.