David C. Sawyer

David C. Sawyer is a partner at Gray, Rust, St. Amand, Moffett & Brieske. His practice primarily focuses on defending companies and individuals in construction, wrongful death, and personal injury litigation.  David also frequently advises on questions related to insurance coverage.  He has been successful as solo or lead counsel in trials leading to defense verdicts and has obtained dismissals through motions practice in multiple cases.

David is admitted to practice in both state and federal courts across Georgia, including to the Court of Appeals of Georgia, the Supreme Court of Georgia, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

David has served as a speaker at continuing education courses and seminars for insurance professionals and engineers.  He has been rated as a Super Lawyer since 2014, selected in Georgia Trend magazine’s Legal Elite, and was given an AV rating from his peers, which means that he was deemed to have very high professional ethics and preeminent legal ability.

David graduated from Florida State University in 2005 and Cumberland School of Law in 2008 where he served as a Caruthers Fellow in the school’s legal writing program and as an Executive of the Henry Upson Sims Moot Court Board. He was a recipient of the Scholar of Merit award and participated in numerous arbitration, mediation, and moot court competitions.