David T. Azrin Joins Wuersch & Gering

Monday, April 1, 2024

We are pleased to announce that David T. Azrin has joined our firm as a Partner in our Intellectual Property, Corporate, Litigation and Employment groups.

David Azrin’s practice focuses on franchising, licensing, and distribution.  He provides guidance to domestic and international franchisors with respect to preparing their franchise agreements, master franchise agreements, and franchise disclosure documents, obtaining necessary state franchise registrations, registering client trademarks and protecting their brands, counseling clients on employment law issues, and resolving disputes with franchisees. 

In the area of trademarks and copyrights, he handles trademark and copyright registrations and trademark litigation.  In the area of employment law, he advises clients on wage laws, discrimination laws, non-compete agreements, employment and severance agreements, policy manuals, and handles employment litigation.   His commercial litigation experience includes 12 jury trials, as well as numerous arbitrations, mediations, and appeals. 

David has the highest AV-rating by the Martindale-Hubbel peer review rating system.   David has been named for the past ten years as a New York City “Super Lawyer” in franchise and distribution law, and a top rated “Legal Eagle” by Franchise Times magazine.   David is currently the chair of the New York State Bar Association Business Law Section Committee on Franchise, Licensing and Distribution.

Prior to joining the firm, David was an equity partner at Gallet Dreyer & Berkey LLP in New York City for 21 years.  David started his career as a litigation associate at Greenberg Traurig in Miami, Florida.  He worked as a summer associate at Paul Weiss in New York City, and at Goodrich Riquelme in Mexico City.

David holds an A.B. from Stanford University and a J.D. from University of Michigan Law School.

David can be reached at david.azrin@wg-law.com or +1-212-509-4745.