About David Wells

David Wells joined McMath Woods as an associate in 2025. He earned his J.D. from the UALR William H. Bowen School of Law (2025), where he served on the UALR Law Review, and his B.A. in Philosophy from UALR (2022). He clerked for the Arkansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals over two years before clerking at Lassiter and Cassinelli and at the Arkansas Attorney General's Office.

In 2022, the Arkansas Supreme Court appointed him to its Build Initiative advisory committee to help modernize the state's judicial management system. In 2024, the Law School Admission Council selected him to design and teach its global summer LSAT curriculum. His practice covers medical malpractice, wrongful death, personal injury, environmental matters, and appellate work.

Proven verdicts and settlements at McMath Woods

These results are credited to McMath Woods. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$17.6 millionVerdictTop 20 in Arkansas · #6

A Pulaski County circuit judge entered a $17.6 million default judgment against a former Little Rock 911 dispatcher who failed to relay a drowning-in-progress call to police and fire water rescue, resulting in the deaths of a mother and her young son over the following two years.

Pulaski County Circuit Court, Little Rock AR · 2017Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$1.63 millionVerdictTop 20 in Arkansas · #18

A federal jury held maintenance contractor Shaw Group liable under Arkansas law after U.S. Army Private Van Ryan Marcum was fatally electrocuted by an abandoned, improperly wired latrine at Fort Benning, returning a $6.5 million verdict affirmed by the Eighth Circuit.

W.D. Arkansas (diversity jurisdiction; 8th Cir. 2008) · 2008Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$1 millionVerdictTop 20 in Arkansas · #19

An oiler paralyzed below the neck after a fuel-supply pontoon vessel capsized in dangerous lock-gate currents on the Arkansas River near Pine Bluff received a $1 million jury award in 1969, reported at the time as the first such verdict in Arkansas federal courts.

E.D. Arkansas, Pine Bluff Division · 1969Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
$255,383

Donna Kudabeck slipped on a recently mopped aisle at a Kroger grocery store in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in April 1995 and fell on the base of her spine. A federal jury found Kroger negligent after a one-day trial and awarded her $260,961.67. The district court entered judgment for $255,382.67 in May 2002 after crediting medical bills Kroger had already paid, and the Eighth Circuit affirmed on August 4, 2003.

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas · 2002Slip & FallRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

UALR William H. Bowen School of Law
J.D., 2025
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Undergraduate, 2022

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Arkansas, admitted 2025

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$110.04 million · $110 Million Verdict for an Infant Left With Skull Fractures at an Unlicensed Mena Daycare

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.