David Van Etten

Background

David W. Van Etten focuses on consumer class actions at Emery | Reddy, PC. He represents consumers seeking refunds of tariff charges passed on to them and airline passengers seeking compensation, in both court and mass arbitration.

David spent seventeen years advising corporations, so he knows how companies price products, write contracts, and manage regulatory risk. He was associate general counsel at fintech startup Derivative Path. Before that, he spent eleven years as a vice president and swap dealer compliance officer at Wells Fargo Bank. He began his career as a corporate associate at Cooley LLP.

David teaches first-year law students as a lecturer at UC Davis School of Law. His pro bono work includes winning asylum for a client in immigration court. He earned his J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law, where he externed for Judge Richard C. Tallman of the Ninth Circuit. Outside the law, he writes and teaches poetry.