David Flugman, a partner at
Selendy & Gay PLCC, is an
attorney with a wide-ranging
background encompassing international
and domestic cases, including prominent
LGBTQ rights cases.
Flugman has secured significant
legal victories throughout his career
across industries such as private
equity, consulting, and retail, and he
has extensive experience handling
insolvency, corporate, securities,
complex commercial, and business tort
disputes.
David has devoted his public interest
David
Flugman
Selendy & Gay PLLC
practice to advancing LGBTQ rights. He
wrote substantially on conversion therapy
when he was a law student, and he
went on to lead the team that secured
a victory in New Jersey when the Third
Circuit Court of Appeals rejected efforts
to reverse the state’s ban on conversion
therapy.
David’s also represented four law
professors as counsel of record in the US
Supreme Court last year in the Fulton v.
City of Philadelphia case urging the court
to retain the test for determining whether
a law violates the free exercise clause of
the First Amendment.
In addition to his legal practice, David
spearheads Selendy & Gay’s diversity,
equity, and inclusion efforts.
David is member of the Judiciary
Committee of the Lesbian and Gay Bar
Association of Greater New York (LeGaL)
and the National Leadership Council for
the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
He has also delivered speeches about
LGBTQ legal issues at multiple law schools.
David grew up on Long Island and
attended Yale University before receiving
his JD from Harvard Law School.
He lives in Manhattan with his husband,
Eugene, and their Cavapoo, Theodore.
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