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ABOUT DAVID D.
MURRAY
DAVID MURRAY is an attorney at law with
offices in Newport Beach,
California, in Orange County, just south of Los Angeles.
The Law Offices of David D. Murray
has been providing quality legal services in connection with business
and immigration matters since 1978, with a practice concentrating
in the areas of Civil Litigation, Employment Law, Contract Negotiation
and Drafting, Copyright, Trademark, and Trade Secrets Litigation,
International Transactions, and Business and Family Immigration.
Mr. Murray has successfully represented clients in business
and immigration matters, cutting through the red-tape of bureauacracy
and achieving positive results for clients 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.
Learning to sail at age 15 aboard the 38-foot ketch Scherzo
2 1/2 on Lake Michigan, at age 21 Mr. Murray took
a haiatis from his university studies and shipped out 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, 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
along the New England and East Coast of the United States from Maine
to Florida, to Bermuda, the Bahamas, the West Indies' Leeward and
Windward Islands, cruising to South America, two times through the
Panama Canal and along the coast of Central America and Mexico,
and northward 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 miles at sea, 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.
Mr. Murray has written a book, entitled Africa,
Africa, chronicling his diamond mining adventures in
the wilds of the African bush. The diamond mining operation is continuing
under the management Michel
Zoumis, now mining in the Kwango River of DR 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 Harley-Davidson
motorcycle enthusiast, guitarist (electric and acoustic), five-string
banjo picker, writer, poet, philosopher, backpacker, hiker, sailor,
skier, and lover of the great outdoors.
For recent more photos of Mr. Murray's journeys, sailing trips,
and motorcycle expeditions of late, click here.
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ACHIEVEMENTS . . .
. . .
* A/V
Rated
by Martindale-Hubbell, signifying very high to preeminent legal
ability for expertise, experience, integrity, and overall professional
excellence in the practice of law.
* Graduate of Ball State University,
Muncie, Indiana
Bachelor of Science, June 1966.
* Graduate of Western State University
College of Law, Fullerton, California
Juris Doctor, December, 1977.
* Admitted to the State
Bar of California
June 1978.
* California State University
Fullerton, Certificate
in International Marketing
1994.
* American Jurisprudence Award winner in Criminal Law
1975.
* Certified Intern with the San
Diego County District Attorneys Office
1976-77.
* Successful Business Law,
Employment Law, and Immigration
Law Practitioner
since June, 1978.
* Admitted to all Courts
of the State of California
June, 1978.
* Admitted to practice before the U.S.
District Court Southern District of California
June 1978.
* Admitted to practice before the U.S.
District Court Central District of California
March, 1985.
* Admitted to practice before the Supreme
Court of the United States of America
November, 1987.
* Arbitrator for the Orange County Bar Association Fee
Arbitration Committee,
1990 to present
* Vietnam Veteran, Honorably Discharged from the United
States Army
Rank: Specialist 5.
* Attached to U.S.
Army HQ I Corps Tactical Signal Group, Provisional,
Phu Bai, South Vietnam, 1968-69.
* Instructor of English, University
of Hue, City of Hue, South Vietnam,
1968-69
* Licensed Merchant Marine
Captain of Sail and Power driven vessels
of up to 100 Net Registered Tons since 1974.
* Diamond mine owner/operator, Kasai
Province, Zaire (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
(Loads slowly. Be patient, it's a big file).
* Speaker on Business and Immigration topics at professional seminars
and industry meetings.
Email speaker@inteconlaw.com
to book Mr. Murray to speak to your organization.
Past and Present Professional Affiliations:
* State Bar of California
* Orange County Trial Lawyers Association
* State Bar of California, International Law Practice Section
* American Bar Association
* American Trial Lawyers Association
* American Immigration Lawyers Association
* Orange County Bar Association
* Orange County Bar Association International Law Practice Section
* Orange County Bar Association Immigration Law Practice Section
LAW OFFICES OF DAVID D.
MURRAY
901 Dove Street, Suite 120, Newport
Beach, California 92660-3018 USA
Tel: (949) 833-8021 Fax: (949) 833-8051
Email: info@inteconlaw.com

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