David Butterfield

Mr. David F. Butterfield was born on August 6, 1958, in East Lansing, Michigan. He was raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and went to high school in Fort Collins, Colorado. He has lived in Louisiana since 1976. Mr. Butterfield graduated in 1980 from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science. As an undergraduate at Louisiana State University he was on the Dean's list for eight consecutive semesters and became a member of the Phi Eta Sigma Honorary Scholastic Fraternity.

He obtained a Juris Doctorate Degree in 1983 from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University. Following graduation from law school, Mr. Butterfield was admitted to practice law in the State of Louisiana in 1984 and became a member of the Central Staff for Louisiana's Second Circuit Court of Appeal. He became associated with the law firm of Mayer, Smith & Roberts, L.L.P. in August of 1985. He became a junior partner with the firm on January 1, 1991, and is now a senior partner.

Mr. Butterfield is licensed to practice before all Louisiana Courts, the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. He has served on the Federal Indigent Defender Board for the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. He has tried over 20 civil jury trials to verdict. Mr. Butterfield practices as an insurance defense litigator primarily in the areas of complicated tort claims, coverage defense, products liability, automobile accident claims, civil rights claims, and professional liability defense, including defense of physicians, accountants, and lawyers.

He has also handled the defense of numerous environmental claims, including asbestos claims, claims for leaking underground storage tanks, and claims for environmental remediation at abandoned waste dumps. Although his practice emphasizes insurance defense, he also handles criminal cases, successions, business development, business transactions, bankruptcy cases for creditors, commercial litigation, plaintiff personal injury cases, and domestic suits. He has tried cases in Shreveport, Baton Rouge, Alexandria, and Monroe, Louisiana. He has also tried cases in numerous other smaller cities and towns throughout North and Central Louisiana.