LSBA Board of Governors

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Blake R. David is founding partner of the Lafayette firm of Broussard & David, L.L.C., where he is a practicing trial lawyer representing individuals and their families in injury and death cases. He received a BA degree in 1997 from Louisiana State University and his JD degree in 2001 from LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center. He was admitted to practice in Louisiana in 2001.

Blake served in the Louisiana State Bar Association’s (LSBA) House of Delegates from 2010-12. He was a presenter for the LSBA’s Admiralty Symposium from 2009-15 and for the LSBA’s CLE “Preparing and Handling the Big Case” in 2012 and 2013. He was the recipient of the LSBA Young Lawyers Division’s Outstanding Young Lawyer Award in 2009.

He is Maritime Section chair and a Board of Governors member for the Louisiana Association for Justice. He is a former president of the Lafayette Bar Association and serves on the Foundation Board. He is a former president of the Federal Bar Association’s Lafayette Chapter and of the American Inn of Court of Acadiana. He is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell and was recognized by Louisiana Super Lawyers (2012-16), National Trial Lawyers Top 100 (2012-16) and the Lafayette Daily Advertiser (20 Under 40) in 2006.

In his community, Blake is a current board member and a past chair of the Lafayette Downtown Development Authority. He serves on the IberiaBank Advisory Board, on the Miles Perret Cancer Services Board and with the Community Foundation of Acadiana. He is a founding board member of the ABC Art Fund (executive committee). He is co-chair of Opus Christi Magnum fundraisers for Catholic Charities of Acadiana and is a foundation board member and Eucharistic minister for Our Lady of Fatima Church. He serves on the Acadiana Tigers board.

He is and his wife, Amber, have been married for 11 years and are the parents of three children.