Al Davis doesn't fit the mold of a typical attorney — and that's precisely the point.
A trained engineer before he was a lawyer, Al brings a builder's mindset to every matter he takes on: rigorous, methodical, and focused on results that actually hold up. After earning his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois and spending years as a project engineer at Amoco Oil (now BP), he understood complex systems and high-stakes problem-solving long before he ever set foot in a courtroom.
That foundation led him to the University of Wisconsin School of Law, where he served as a Managing Editor of the Law Review — and then straight into the national intellectual property powerhouse Merchant & Gould in Minneapolis. There, he built a practice centered on securing and defending patent and trademark rights before the USPTO and in federal court. When the firm's Los Angeles office came calling in 1996, he made the move — and never looked back.
He further sharpened his litigation edge at Quinn Emanuel, one of the most formidable business litigation firms in the country. Then, in April 2003, he did what few attorneys with his pedigree dare to do: he walked away from the big-firm world and launched A.F. DAVIS LAW® on his own terms.
The result is a practice built around a simple but radical premise — clients deserve big-firm expertise without big-firm bloat. By staying lean and strategically bringing in seasoned co-counsel only when a matter demands it, A.F. DAVIS LAW® keeps overhead low, fees reasonable, and attention undivided.
Al is admitted to practice in California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Texas, the U.S. District Courts of those states, and before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Seventh Circuit, and Ninth Circuit, as well as the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
