David Benowitz
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About David Benowitz
David Benowitz is a founding partner of Price Benowitz LLP, where he represents CEOs, federal contractors, and financial services executives in white-collar criminal and personal injury matters. He has practiced as a high-profile criminal defense attorney for 25 to 30 years.
Benowitz earned his Juris Doctor from George Washington University Law School in 1995, where he served on the Law Review, the Moot Court Board, and the D.C. Law Students in Court Program. He also earned an LL.M. in Trial Advocacy from Temple University in 2006. He is admitted to the Bar of Washington, D.C. and the State Bar of Maryland.
From 1995 to 2001, Benowitz served as a Staff Attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where he represented clients in serious felony cases including first-degree murder, armed robbery, and carjacking. He has been a faculty member of the Harvard Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop since 2012.
Notable matters include representation of a former African nation president charged with bulk cash smuggling (resulting in a small fine), defense of a business owner in the "Africa Sting" FCPA prosecution (dismissed by the Department of Justice), representation of a high-ranking naval officer in a government corruption investigation, the 2017 exoneration of Lamar Johnson through work with the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project, and the 2020 release of Calvin Bright from a 60-years-to-life sentence for a wrongful murder conviction.
His honors include Super Lawyers selection (2013-2025), Best Lawyers designation, an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell, recognition as one of Washington D.C.'s Best Lawyers by the Washington City Paper, and selection to the National Trial Lawyers Top 100. He is the founder of the Recognizing Public Servants Scholarship and a supporter of Operation Enduring Warrior and the Semper Fi Fund.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Price Benowitz Accident Injury Lawyers, LLP
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Price Benowitz, with co-counsel Ben Crump, filed a $25 million wrongful death suit for the father of Rolin Hill, who died in 2024 after Virginia Beach jail deputies restrained and beat him during a mental health crisis.
A large tree fell onto a moving car on Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park and trapped the driver, Marcelino Cruz Leiva. He sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act, alleging the National Park Service should have found and removed the decayed tree. After a four-day bench trial in December 2023, Judge Amit Mehta entered judgment for Cruz Leiva on his negligence claim in the sum of $5 million on May 7, 2024.
A federal judge held the United States could be sued under the Federal Tort Claims Act for a tree limb that fell on pedestrian Mary Lou Walen during Hurricane Sandy, rejecting the government's sovereign-immunity defense and later denying summary judgment.
Price Benowitz brought a federal civil rights and wrongful death suit after Alonzo Smith, 27, died in 2015 while special police officers restrained him face down at a Southeast Washington apartment complex.
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