About David
David Bourne was a partner in the Business Law Group and Financial Services Industry Team.
Capabilities
Professional Recognitions
- Best Lawyers® "Lawyer of the Year" (2022: Banking and Finance Law)
- Chambers USA® (2016–present: Banking & Finance)
- Best Lawyers in America® (2012–present: Banking and Finance Law / Corporate Law)
- Martindale-Hubbell AV® Peer Review Rated
Professional & Civic Activities
- American, Wisconsin and Milwaukee Bar Associations, member
- Milwaukee Young Lawyers Association, member of the board of directors (1992-1995), president (1994-1995)
- Marquette University Law School Alumni Association, president (2021-2022 term); member, 2017-present
- Member of a defense team that provided pro bono legal representation to a Texas death row inmate, assumed key responsibilities for drafting a petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court (1988-1995)
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund
News & Insights
Education
- Marquette University Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1988)
- Marquette Law Review
- Zilber Scholar
- Marquette Lawyer Scholar
- Georgetown University (M.A., 1983)
- Wheaton College (B.A., magna cum laude, 1981)
Bar Admissions
- Wisconsin
Court Admissions
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1994
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, 1993
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, 1988
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, 1988