David B.Cosgrove
dcosgrove
@cosgrovelawllc.com
(314)-563-2492
David Cosgrove is the managing partner of the law firm of Cosgrove Law, LLC. Mr. Cosgrove represents businesses, corporate officers and individuals facing civil, criminal, or administrative enforcement actions by government entities in areas such as securities, annuities, consumer services and products, and white collar crime. He also has a general litigation and government relations practice. Mr. Cosgrove also serves as the compliance counsel for a national financial products company and represents a national brokerage company, several investment advisors, as well as defrauded investors.
Prior to his return to private practice in 2006, Mr. Cosgrove served as Missouri's Commissioner of Securities where he supervised attorneys, investigators and auditors investigating and prosecuting administrative, civil and criminal violations of the State's securities laws. He was responsible for identifying practices or industry sectors appropriate for enforcement measures and also supervised the Securities Division's registration and audit sections. Additionally, he interfaced with the SEC, NASD (now FINRA), NASAA (North American Securities Administrators Association) and various other state and federal enforcement agencies.
From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Cosgrove served as the Chief Legal Counsel for the Office of the Governor in Missouri where he provided legal advice to the Governor and supervised the general counsels and legal affairs of the State's sixteen executive agencies. Prior to taking the Chief Legal Counsel position, Mr. Cosgrove served as Chief Counsel for the Missouri Attorney General's Office's Consumer Protection Division where he supervised attorneys and investigators prosecuting civil and criminal litigation related to unlawful merchandising, fraud and anti-trust, including national multi-state litigation.
Between 1999 and 2002, Mr. Cosgrove held the position of Chief Consumer Protection Prosecutor in the Criminal Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office in Boston, Massachusetts. He was responsible for criminal commercial fraud cases, including securities, mortgage, telemarketing, internet, unlicensed practitioners, and contract fraud. Mr. Cosgrove also worked as an Assistant District Attorney and a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the U.S. District of Massachusetts responsible for grand jury investigations and the litigation of a wide range of white-collar cases, including embezzlement, commercial fraud, complex larceny schemes and public corruption matters.
Between 1993 and 1999, Mr. Cosgrove gained extensive litigation experience as an Assistant Attorney General for the Missouri Attorney General's Office where he litigated both criminal and civil cases. This experience included dozens of jury trials and hundreds of depositions and evidentiary hearings. He gained his initial experience at the Attorney General's Office drafting appellate briefs and arguing cases before the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Missouri. Mr. Cosgrove began his career in 1990 in private practice as an Associate in the Commercial Litigation Department of Stinson, Morrison and Hecker in Kansas City, Missouri.
Mr. Cosgrove received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, cum laude, and his law degree from the University of Notre Dame. Mr. Cosgrove received the distinguished Lon O. Hocker Award for trial advocacy from the Missouri Bar Foundation. His memberships include the Missouri Bar, the Massachusetts Bar, United States District Court, Western and Eastern Districts of Missouri, the United States District Court, District of Massachusetts and the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals.