About David Casey
David S. Casey, Jr. joined CaseyGerry in 1976 after working as a prosecutor for the San Diego City Attorney's office. The firm was founded by his father, David S. Casey Sr., in 1947. Over more than 40 years in practice, David has secured dozens of high-profile verdicts and settlements. He was appointed to the national Plaintiff's Steering Committee in the Volkswagen diesel emissions litigation, which resolved for $14.7 billion, and served on the Plaintiff's Steering Committee in the Chrysler Dodge-Jeep Ecodiesel litigation, which settled for $300 million. He is a past president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (now American Association for Justice), the Consumer Attorneys of California, the Western Trial Lawyers Association, and the San Diego Trial Lawyers Association. His awards include the 2018 Witkin Award for Excellence in the Practice of Law, the 2019 Hughes McClenahan Award by ABOTA, and the 2019 University of San Diego Distinguished Alumni Award. He has been recognized as one of the Daily Journal's Top 100 Lawyers in California on eleven occasions and a Super Lawyer since 2007. Since 2008 he has served as state chair for federal judicial selection in California.
Notable case results
David Casey Jr. of CaseyGerry was appointed by Judge Charles Breyer as the sole San Diego attorney on the 22-member Plaintiffs' Steering Committee overseeing MDL 2672, the consolidated clean-diesel emissions fraud litigation that produced a $14.7 billion settlement against Volkswagen.
In multidistrict litigation before Judge Andrew J. Guilford, CaseyGerry served as class counsel in a $393.5 million settlement resolving allegations that Wells Fargo secretly loaded unnecessary collateral protection insurance onto auto loan accounts, pushing hundreds of thousands of borrowers into delinquency and causing roughly 27,000 wrongful vehicle repossessions.
Global settlement, Volkswagen Clean Diesel MDL (Plaintiff's Steering Committee)
Chrysler Dodge-Jeep Ecodiesel MDL (Plaintiff's Steering Committee)
Plus verdict, injured physician wheelchair incident
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
