David H. Bate specializes in general business, insurance, real estate, and construction litigation. In the past few years, Mr. Bate’s litigation practice has included cases involving construction defects and mechanic’s liens, specific performance actions regarding real property, boundary line disputes, title insurance defense, and judicial foreclosure actions. Mr. Bate’s practice also includes advice and counsel regarding copyright and trademark issues as well as contract negotiations within the entertainment industry.

Mr. Bate has extensive courtroom experience, having tried more than twenty cases, federal and state, to judgment or verdict. Mr. Bate has also argued matters before the appellate courts of California and Colorado.

Mr. Bate received his B.A. degree, cum laude, from Claremont Men’s College (now Claremont McKenna College) in 1979 with a double major in economics and psychology. He received his J.D. degree from the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law in 1982. Mr. Bate began his practice with the Denver, Colorado law firm of Rothgerber, Appel, Powers & Johnson, where he represented Sears, Roebuck & Company, Roper Corporation and United Bank of Denver, among others, in complex business litigation matters. Mr. Bate joined the startup litigation boutique Cortez & Friedman, P.C. (now the Denver office of McKenna & Cuneo, LLP) in 1985, where Mr. Bate continued to handle business, insurance, construction and real estate litigation matters.

Mr. Bate was admitted to the California bar in 1988, when he joined the Los Angeles office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. At Sheppard, Mullin, Mr. Bate handled complex litigation matters for Security Pacific Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, and Northrop Corporation. Mr. Bate joined the Los Angeles office of the international law firm White & Case, LLP in 1992, where he litigated business, insurance, construction, and real estate matters for The Tokai Bank, Bank of America, Shaw Properties Corporation, Wells Fargo Bank and Brinker International. Mr. Bate left White & Case to form Bate & Peterson, LLP in 1998.