Whitney A. Davis 

PRACTICE AREAS EDUCATION ADMISSIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS PROFESSIONAL SERVICE, MEMBERSHIPS AND AWARDS PEER-REVIEWED BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS PUBLISHED OPINIONS IN LEGAL MATTERS PRACTICE HIGHLIGHTS
  • Complex Business Litigation
  • Transportation, Product Liability, and Environmental Litigation
  • Real Estate Litigation
  • Personal Injury Litigation


  • J.D., McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific (1990)
  • B.A., Business Administration, University of Arizona (1987)



  • Admitted to Practice – California (1990)
  • Admitted to Practice – Texas (2013)
  • AV® Rated “Preeminent” – Peer Review Rating, Martindale-Hubbell



  • Selected to the list of “Texas Super Lawyers” in Business and Environmental Litigation (2005, 2009 – 2013. 2015 – Present), published by Thomson Reuters  




  • Buck, R., & Davis, W. A. (2010)

http://www.kwdavis.com/uploads/1/2/9/8/12982522/whit_bucky_chapter.pdf. Marketing risk: Emotional appeals can promote the mindless acceptance of risk. In Sabine Roeser (Ed.), Emotions and Risky Technologies, Pgs. 61-80. Springer book series The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology. Vol. 5. New York, NY, USA: Springer


  • Viad Corp. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County, 55 Cal. App. 4th 330 (2nd Dist. Ct. App. 1997) – California Supreme Court Review Denied, 1997 Cal. LEXIS 5594.
  • Schieiding v. General Motors, 993, P.2d 996, 93 Ca.Rptr.2d 342, 22 Cal. 4th 471 (Cal. Sup. Ct. 2000), California Supreme Court Review

Transferred to Second District Court of Appeal, 2000 Cal. LEXIS 3726 (See 22 Cal. 4th 471 (2000)

  • Bunch v. Hoffinger Industries (Doughboy), 123 Cal. App 4th 1278, 20 Cal.Rptr.3d 780 (3rd. Dist. 2004) – California Supreme Court Review
  • Denied, Bunch v. Hoffinger Industries, 2005 Cal. LEXIS 1702 (2005) – U.S. Supreme Court Certiorari Denied, Bunch v. Hoffinger Industries, 2005 U.S. LEXIS 5585, 126 S. Ct. 344 (2005). 
  • In re: Hoffinger Industries, Inc., Debtor; Bunch v. Hoffinger Industries, Inc. 329 F.3rd 948 (8th Cir. 2003)
  • Hoffinger Industries v. Bunch, 313 B.R. 812 (Bankr. E.D. Ark. 2004).
  • Bunch v. J.M. Capital Finance 321 B.R. 515 (Bankr. E.D. Ark. 2005) – See also Bunch v. J.M. Capital Finance, 327 B.R. 389 (Bankr. E.D. Ark. 2005) 
  • Bunch v. J.J. Capital Finance, 323 B.R. 681 (Bankr. E.D. Ark. 2005)
  • R. Ray Fulmer, II, at al v. Fifth Third Equipment Finance, et al, Case No. 19-555 Cert. Denied (2020)



  • Successfully defended an environmental matter in Los Angeles against 155 injury claimants, who were testing California’s legal waters for a 4,500-claimant suit seeking in excess of $400 million. Invoked federal preemption and his client prevailed in the trial court, at the Second District Court of Appeal, the California Supreme Court and eventually at the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • Founded a law firm representing Fortune 500 clients in complex transportation, contract and environmental matters throughout the United States.  
  • Lobbied on state and national levels to prevent burn and spinal cord injuries to minors and the elderly. Concerned with the needless injuries and deaths suffered by so many children and seniors resulting from mattress and upholstered furniture fires, he petitioned the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission om 2001 to adopt flame-resistance standards for children’s and senior’s mattresses. Dateline, Good Morning America and more than 145 local affiliates nationwide aired campaign against the U.S. mattress industry to save lives. Authored a new law for California on the subject (AB 603) which by 2005 became the toughest residential flammability safety standard ever enacted in the United States. In 2009, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission adopted proposed standard, making it the national flammability standard for mattresses.  
  • Representation of plaintiff heiress in a successful challenge to her exclusion from a $745 million estate.
  • Representation of transportation client in recovery of more than $3 million in breach of an exclusive freight agreement.
  • Representation of another transportation client in recovery of more than $3 million in breach of a loading/unloading contract.
  • Representation in a contract arbitration resulting in the recovery of $11.7 million for an aerospace parts manufacturer.
  • Achieved a $19,178,000 verdict in truck loading/unloading matter.
  • Achieved a $1,100,000 settlement for auto accident with concussion.
  • Presently: Legal counsel in proceedings to recover $450 million in a fraudulent transfer proceeding and defense of fuel provider in a $500 million soil, land, water contamination matter concerning the San Francisco International Airport.