David Thompson, Associate, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP- JD, 2007, summa cum laude, Stanford Law School, Order of the Coif, Urban A. Sontheimer Award for graduating second in his class
- B.A. Economics, 2002, Yale University
About David's Legal Career
David attended Law Preview during the summer of 2004 and went on to enjoy a great deal of success at Stanford Law School. In addition to serving as the Editor-In-Chief of the Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance, David worked as a research assistant for both Dean Kathleen Sullivan and Professor G. Marcus Cole. After graduation, he clerked for Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and then for Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court.His deep interest and experience in Internet technology and its intersection with the law led David to ReputationDefender -- a privately-held company that is the pioneer in online reputation and privacy management. While at ReputationDefender, he served as served as General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer and co-authored the top-selling book, Wild West 2.0: How to Protect and Restore Your Reputation on the Untamed Social Frontier. In December 2010, David joined the Los Angeles office of Munger Tolles & Olson LLP where he will focus his private practice on corporate transactions.
In 2008, David returned to teach for Law Preview. He regularly delivers the academic success skills lectures at Law Preview sessions in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Without Law Preview I'm not sure that I'd have succeeded in law school. Law Preview got me back in the mindset of being a student after taking time away from school and working for two years. I was out of practice at studying and I wanted to take a course that would get me back in the right frame of mind. Law Preview was perfect. I re-learned all of the study skills I had forgotten, and replaced a lot of my inefficient undergraduate practices with the techniques that work at the law school level. Plus, I got a one-week jump on the most important part of law school: the case method. Nothing in undergraduate education or the work world compares to the way that law professors use the case analysis method to teach the law. Thanks to Law Preview I was a lot more comfortable working with cases; I was able to spend the first weeks of school learning the law rather than trying to orient myself. Thanks in part to what I learned at Law Preview I was able to graduate second in my class and get a Supreme Court clerkship. I can't thank Law Preview enough!