David P. Chervenick is a shareholder and Executive Committee member at Goldberg, Persky & White, P.C., in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He works on the firm’s asbestos litigation in Pennsylvania and West Virginia and represents people seriously injured by medical negligence, harmful drugs, toxic substances, car crashes, falls and defective products.
Chervenick began his career as an assistant district attorney in Allegheny County, trying cases in the General Trial Unit and the Crimes Person Unit and handling thousands of preliminary hearings in City Court. He joined the predecessor firm Henderson and Goldberg in 1988 and has been a shareholder since 1992. He has tried more than 150 jury trials to verdict in state and federal courts in Pennsylvania, Michigan, West Virginia and Iowa.
He earned his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh in 1981 and his law degree cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1984. He is a member of the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County and holds an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.