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The Law Offices of David D. Murray
provides quality legal services in connection with business and
immigration matters, with a practice concentrating in the areas
of Civil Litigation, Employment Law, Contract Negotiation and Drafting,
Copyright, Trademark, and Trade Secrets Litigation, Domestic &
International Business Transactions, and Business and Family Immigration.
Since 1978, David Murray has successfully represented clients in business transactions, litigation, and immigration matters, cutting through the red-tape of bureaucracy and achieving positive results for clients in the United States and around the world. Rated A/V by Martindale-Hubbell, signifying very high to preeminent legal ability for expertise, experience, integrity and overall professional excellence, the firm routinely handles matters relating to U.S. business immigration and international business transactions for companies with locations throughout the United States as well as in countries overseas in Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, and throughout the Pacific Rim. As an American Jurisprudence Law Award recipient in Criminal Law, and as a Certified Intern with the Office of the San Diego County District Attorney, Mr. Murray began his legal career in the arena of criminal prosecution. After handling many criminal matters as a Certified Intern, and, after licensure, as criminal defense counsel, Mr. Murray shifted the emphasis of his practice to civil matters, representing companies and individuals world wide in legal matters ranging from employer/employee disputes, contract negotiation and drafting, copyright and trade secret enforcement, domestic and international business transactions, business litigation, entity formation, and U.S. corporate, business and family related immigration matters. Mr. Murray received a Bachelor of Science degree in June of 1966 from Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, and the degree of Juris Doctor from Western State University College of Law, Fullerton, California, San Diego Campus, in December 1977. Admitted to the practice of law in the State of California in June of 1978, Mr. Murray is certified to practice law before all courts of the State of California, the United States District Court in the Central and Southern Districts of California, and the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Mr. Murray's professional affiliations have included active membership in the State Bar of California, the American Immigration Lawyer's Association, the State Bar of California International Law Section, the Orange County Bar Association International Law Section, and the Orange County Bar Association Immigration Law Section. Mr. Murray served in the U.S. Army from 1967 to 1969, taking Basic Training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Lee, Virginia. Remaining at Fort Lee as an instructor in the Quartermaster School until deployment to the Republic of South Vietnam in September 1968, Mr. Murray became one of the four founding personnel of the HQ I Corps Tactical Zone Signal Group, Provisional, in Phu Bai, South Vietnam. While stationed at Phu Bai, in addition to his regular military duties, Mr. Murray served as Professor of English at the University of Hue, through the auspices of a United States Information Agency cultural exchange program. Growing up in Michiana Shores, Indiana, and learning to sail at age 15 aboard the 38-foot wooden ketch Scherzo 2 1/2, on Lake Michigan, at age 21 Mr. Murray took a hiatus from his university studies and shipped out "before the mast" with Windjammer Cruises as a deckhand aboard the 197 foot staysail schooner Yankee Clipper, formerly the Vanderbilt family's yacht Pioneer, and the majestic 150 foot schooner, Polynesia, charter cruising the Bahamas, Virgin Islands, and the Windward and Leeward Islands of the West Indies. The next year, after graduating from college, Mr. Murray continued his professional sailing career in the Virgin Islands as First Mate aboard the big gaff-rigged Brixham Trawler charter yacht, Maverick, under the command of his sailing mentor, Captain Jack Carstarphen. Serving as a deckhand aboard the schooners Yankee Clipper and Polynesia, crew aboard Maverick, and a delivery from the Virgin Islands to Florida and the Miami to Nassau Sailboat Race aboard the classic champion sailing yacht Ticonderoga qualified Mr. Murray with sufficient sea-time to sit for his 100-ton Captain's License. In 1973, Mr. Murray earned the rank of Merchant Marine Captain, thereafter serving as Captain of the international sailing yacht Mystic, a 60-foot Ted Brewer designed aluminum ketch, and Bon Belle, a 63-foot Phillip Rhodes designed aluminum ketch. In addition, Mr. Murray gained Caribbean sailboat charter experience as captain aboard such famous sailing yachts as the historic 73-foot Nathaniel Herreshoff designed NY 50, Spartan, the 70-foot Uffa Fox designed Flying Fifty, and Diligence, a Sparkman & Stephens designed Swan 57. In addition to running charters in the West Indies, from 1970 to 1972 Mr. Murray made a two-year single-handed voyage through the Windward and Leeward Islands of the Caribbean aboard the tiny 22-foot sloop, Waltzing Matilda. Mr. Murray's sailing adventures have taken him to ports all along the New England Coast and down the East Coast of the United States from Maine to Florida, sailing to Bermuda, the Bahamas, the West Indies' Leeward and Windward Islands, cruising to South America, twice through the Panama Canal and up the coast of Central America and Mexico, and north-westward to California, in addition to sailing in Hawaii, the Philippines, and the Mediterranean Sea. In a lifetime of sailing, Mr. Murray has logged over 100,000 sea miles, chartering, delivering, racing, and cruising aboard both traditional and modern sailing yachts ranging in size from 22 to 197 feet. Retiring from professional sailing in 1982, Mr. Murray has devoted his full time to the practice of law, with the exception of a six month sabbatical to establish a diamond mining operation in the Kasai Province of Zaire (previously the Belgian Congo, and now called Democratic Republic of Congo), out in the African bush country, 60 kilometers from the town of Tshikapa, and 600 kilometers from Kinshasa. Mr. Murray has written a book entitled Africa, Africa (click to download and read it for free . . . be patient, it is a large file and takes a while to download). Africa, Africa, is a cut-to-the-chase documentation of what it is like mining diamonds in the wilds of the African bush, living in a dirt floor hovel, without running water or an indoor toilet, the only electricity provided by a 15kw diesel-powered generator that provided power to bare, ceiling-hung, light bulbs and the luxury of a TV that showed only French language videos. Although Mr. Murray's participation in diamond mining is now limited to an occasional email or phone call to his partner, Michel Zoumis, in DR Congo, and to Michel's brother, Alexandre, in Capetown, South Africa, the diamond mining continues under the management of Michel Zoumis, and his company Midamines, S.P.R.L , now mining in and around the Kwango River of Democratic Republic of Congo, just north of the Angolan border, and in other diamond rich areas of the Congo. Investors are always welcome for an adventure of a lifetime. When not practicing law, or otherwise engaged in various
business endeavors, Mr. Murray is an avid For recent photos of David Murray's journeys, sailing trips, and
motorcycle expeditions of late, ACHIEVEMENTS . . . . . . * A/V
Rated
by Martindale-Hubbell, signifying very high to preeminent
legal ability for * Graduate of Ball State University,
Muncie, Indiana * Graduate of Western State
University College of Law, Fullerton, California * Admitted to the State
Bar of California * California State University
Fullerton, Certificate
in International Marketing * American Jurisprudence Award winner in Criminal Law * Certified Intern with the San
Diego County District Attorneys Office * Successful Business Law,
Employment Law, and Immigration
Law Practitioner * Admitted to all Courts
of the State of California * Admitted to practice before the U.S.
District Court, Southern District of California * Admitted to practice before the U.S.
District Court, Central District of California * Admitted to practice before the Supreme
Court of the United States of America * Arbitrator for the Orange County Bar Association Fee
Arbitration Committee, * Vietnam Veteran, Honorably Discharged from the United
States Army * Attached to U.S.
Army HQ I Corps Tactical Signal Group, Provisional, * Instructor of English, University
of Hue, Hue, South Vietnam, * Licensed Merchant Marine
Captain of Sail and Power driven vessels * Diamond mine owner/operator, Kasai Province, Zaire (DR Congo), Africa. * Officer of the Orange County Bar Association Immigration Law Section. * Member, Sigma Chi Fraternity and Orange County John Wayne Alumni Chapter. * Author of numerous articles on Business Law, Employment Law and Immigration Law. * Author of "Africa,
Africa", a chronicle of diamond mining in the African
bush * Speaker on Business and Immigration topics at professional seminars and industry meetings. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Past and Present Professional Affiliations: * State Bar of California * American Bar Association * Orange County Bar Association * American Trial Lawyers Association * Orange County Trial Lawyers Association * American Immigration Lawyers Association * State Bar of California International Law Practice Section * Orange County Bar Association Immigration Law Practice Section * Orange County Bar Association International Law Practice Section ___________________________________________________________________________________ LAW OFFICES OF DAVID D.
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