Schuley, Marc B.

Dave is a shareholder in the firm of Briggs and Morgan, Professional Association. Dave is an experienced litigator and trial attorney with a proven winning track record in complex employment and business litigation. He is equally adept at providing counsel on business issues, positioning cases for summary judgment, negotiating settlements and taking a case to trial. Dave has significant trial experience, including over 40 first chair jury verdicts, and has served as a trial instructor for a national trial defense group.

Dave is a member of the Labor and Employment Law Section and practices in the areas of:

• Employment litigation
• Business litigation
• Insurance litigation
• Class action

Employment Litigation
Dave has significant experience representing employers in traditional employment litigation defending employers in discrimination, harassment, reasonable accomodation, retaliation and wrongful termination cases. He also regularly handles complex employment-related suits involving executive non-compete agreements and allegations of misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of fiduciary obligations. Dave has defended employers in class actions, representative actions and significant multiple plaintiff and single plaintiff employment lawsuits.

Business Litigation
Dave has extensive experience representing Fortune 500 corporations and various manufacturers in complex litigation. He is skilled in assisting businesses with matters regarding multi-million dollar breach of contract, breach of warranty, tortious interference, unfair competition and other business-related claims.

In his insurance litigation practice, he defends policyholders facing director and officer disputes, employment disputes, and disputes regarding professional liability and specialty lines.

Representative experience includes serving as:

• Lead outside counsel for a regional employee benefits company;
• Lead counsel in the successful resolution of a multi-party defamation and business tort claim for a Minnesota-based Fortune 500 company;
• Lead counsel in the successful defense of a Title VII discrimination claim (by the EEOC) against a leading Minnesota corporation, which resulted in a voluntary dismissal with prejudice by the EEOC after receipt of the defendant’s motion for summary judgment;
• Lead counsel in a multi-party/multi-jurisdiction age discrimination claim for a Minnesota-based national truck distributor;
• Lead counsel in representing a Fortune 500 company in successfully resolving a wage and hour dispute involving overtime pay;
• Lead counsel in successfully defending or pursuing six successive favorable injunctive relief court orders in federal and state courts for major Minnesota businesses;
• Lead counsel in the successful resolution of a multiparty WARN Act lawsuit for a Michigan automobile parts manufacturer;
• Lead attorney representing a California-based candy manufacturer in the trial and favorable resolution of a $6 million lawsuit involving transportation logistics and fraud in federal district court; and
• Lead counsel in the successful resolution of a $23 million multiparty breach of employment case for a Minnesota subsidiary of a Fortune 500 business.

Dave has represented clients in a variety of industries, including insurance, transportation, manufacturing, information technology, grocery, software, hotel, commercial construction, mortgage banking, financial services, medical and nursing home care. He often serves as local counsel in partnership with a number of AmLaw 100 law firms in complex litigation matters.

Dave is AV rated by Martindale Hubbell, the highest rating for legal skills and ethics. He is admitted to practice in Minnesota state and federal courts, and the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois. He is a member of the Hennepin County, Minnesota State, American and Federal Bar associations; DRI; and Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association (MDLA). In addition, Dave is active with the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (FDCC) as vice chair of the Financial Institutions Committee and the organization's trial skills training program (Federation University). He is also a member of FDCC's Commercial Litigation Subsection and the Corporate Counsel Symposium Committee.

Dave received his B.A. from St. Olaf College and his J.D. cum laude from William Mitchell College of Law. He served as a law clerk for Magistrate Bernard Becker of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. Dave practiced for several years with another local law firm before joining Briggs in 2007.