David Munkittrick

David A. Munkittrick is a litigator and trial attorney in Proskauer’s Antitrust, Copyright and Privacy Groups. He litigates cases throughout the country, on a wide variety of matters, and at all stages of litigation, from complaint through appeal.

David advises clients regarding antitrust issues in a wide variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, finance, automotive and health care. He handles a wide range of antitrust matters, including class actions, competitor suits and price discrimination claims.

He was a member of the Proskauer team that secured a complete defense verdict in a widely reported price discrimination jury trial. In addition, as part of a multi-district price fixing case, he helped challenge, negotiate and significantly narrow, on behalf of a third party, a subpoena that the court called one of the most expansive ever served.

Representative antitrust matters include:

• TrueEx LLC v. MarkitServ Ltd. Defense of antitrust claim seeking to impose a duty to deal with a competitor in the alleged market for post-trade processing of Interest Rate Swaps
• Mathew Enterprise Inc. v. Chrysler Group LLC. Part of the trial team for Chrysler in the successful defense of a $5.1 million price discrimination action brought by a dealer, obtaining a jury verdict for Chrysler after a two week jury trial
• Castro v. Sanofi Pasteur Inc. Counsel for Sanofi Pasteur, defending a nationwide class action alleging monopolization of the alleged market for meningitis vaccines in the United States through bundling and other exclusionary conduct

With his background in music, David assists clients, including major record labels, music publishing companies, recording artists and other media and entertainment companies, in navigating complex copyright issues, and has helped obtain dismissal of copyright infringement claims for clients in the music and publishing industries. He also has represented artists in matters involving privacy rights and related issues.

Representative entertainment/copyright matters include:

• Archie MD, Inc. v. Elsevier, Inc. Defense of Elsevier against allegations of mass copyright infringement. Successful summary judgment motion resulted in complete dismissal of vast majority of the claims
• Universal Attractions, Inc. v. Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. Representing Live Nation and Ticketmaster in defense of false advertising claims
• Francescatti v. Germanotta. Represented Lady Gaga in defense of a copyright infringement suit regarding the song “Judas”, obtaining complete dismissal of the claims on summary judgment.

David has been at the forefront of litigating standing issues following the Supreme Court’s Spokeo decision, particularly in FACTA litigation.

Prior to joining Proskauer, David was a constitutional law fellow at the Institute for Justice, working on high-profile First Amendment and property rights cases.

While in law school, he served as an intern judicial clerk to the Honorable Jane E. Magnus-Stinson at the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. He also was a finalist in the Sherman Minton Moot Court competition, in which he was the recipient of the Best Brief Award.

He has also authored and co-authored chapters in the “Proskauer on Privacy” treatise discussing location privacy and data breach litigation.

Education :

• Indiana University Maurer School of Law, J.D., 2010
• Oberlin College, B.A., 2007
• Oberlin College, B.Mus, 2007

Admissions & Qualifications : New York

Court Admissions :

• U.S. District Court, New York, Eastern District
• U.S. District Court, New York, Southern District
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Memberships :

• New York City Bar Association: Science and Law Committee
• New York State Bar Association: Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section
• American Bar Association: Antitrust Section