Oliver David Barksdale
Email:
odb@bedellfirm.com
Bio: David Barksdale graduated summa cum laude from Vanderbilt University in 1988. He received his J.D. from the University of Florida in 1992, with honors, and was appointed to the Order of the Coif. He practiced two years with the Bedell Firm as an associate, then spent four and a half years with the State Attorney’s Office in Jacksonville, where he was a division chief and a member of the Homicide Team. He returned to Bedell in 1999, and now is the firm’s managing partner.
David is listed in The Best Lawyers in America (White Collar and General Practice Criminal Defense), Florida Trend’s Legal Elite (Hall of Fame), and Super Lawyers (Florida’s Top 100: 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019). David and his colleagues Allan Brooke and Ashley Cox wrote “Defending the Prescription Case,” Florida Defender (Winter 2014).