Mark Davis
Founding Partner | Davis Levin Livingston
Mark Davis is a medical malpractice, personal injury and civil rights trial lawyer and founding partner at Davis Levin Livingston in Honolulu, Hawaii. J.D., Washington University School of Law (1974).
Meet Mark
Mark S. Davis is a founding partner of Davis Levin Livingston in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he has represented plaintiffs for about 50 years. His practice has included medical malpractice, serious injury and civil rights cases across the islands.
Davis earned a bachelor’s degree cum laude from Tulane University in 1971 and his law degree from Washington University School of Law in 1974, the year he was admitted in Hawaii. According to the Inner Circle of Advocates, his results include the largest medical malpractice award in the country against the federal government and the largest single compensatory verdict in Hawaii. He was long active in civil rights work, served on the ACLU’s national board of directors and has taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Hawaii law school.
He served as president of the Inner Circle of Advocates from 2009 to 2011 and is a past president of the Consumer Lawyers of Hawaii. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and has served as Hawaii’s representative on the American Association for Justice Board of Governors.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- Hawaii Supreme Court, 1974
- U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, 1974
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1974
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1979
- J.D., Washington University School of Law, 1974
- B.A. cum laude, Tulane University, 1971
Practice Areas
- Inner Circle of Advocates (President, 2009-2011)
- American College of Trial Lawyers (Fellow)
- Consumer Lawyers of Hawaii (President, 1998-1999)
- American Association for Justice (Governor, Hawaii)
- Western Trial Lawyers Association (Governor)
- Hawaii Academy of Plaintiffs' Attorneys (Founding Fellow)
- Roscoe Pound Foundation (Fellow)
- Hawaii State Bar Association Committee on Attorney Solicitation and Advertising (Chair)
- ACLU National Board of Directors (1982-1985)
- Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers in America, 2009
- Distinguished Alumni, Washington University School of Law, 2014
- Lawdragon 500 Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers, 2019
- The Best Lawyers in America, 1991-present
- Super Lawyers, 2008-2020
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