David White

Director of Conflict Management Program | Professor of Legal Practice

Seton Hall Law School

I am a practitioner-scholar whose pedagogical interest is the application of Crisis Negotiation techniques to the boardroom and the courtroom. I train future attorneys and members of the public to be effective negotiators when failure is not an option. 

For over 18 years I have maintained strong ties to the federal and local law enforcement communities (FBI, NYPD). I am an alumnus of the FBI/NYO Citizens Academy and a member of the Metro New York InfraGard Alliance and NYPD SHIELD counter-terrorism initiative. 

I am one of a discrete number of civilians to complete the FBI Basic Crisis Negotiation Course (FBI/NK) and have trained with the NYPD's Hostage Negotiation Team and the NYPD Crisis Intervention Team. I have also participated in FBI Interview/Interrogation and Active Shooter Survival training. 

In partnership with the FBI Crisis Negotiation Unit (Quantico, VA), I designed and instructed the first full-length Crisis Negotiation course to be offered at an ABA-accredited law school (Seton Hall School of Law, 2015). 

My areas of instructional expertise include:
• Crisis Negotiation (Hostage/Barricade);
• Active Shooter Survival;
• Police Ethics;
• Interviewing;
• Constitutional Law;
• Commercial Negotiation; and
• Mediation. 

I am licensed to practice in New York, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia and am admitted to practice before the following federal courts:
• United States Supreme Court; 
• United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (NY, CT, VT); 
• United States District Court for the Southern District of New York; 
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York; and 
• United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

My areas of practice-based professional expertise include:
• Complex Commercial Litigation; 
• Employment Discrimination; and 
• Securities Law