About David Swanner

I am a plaintiff's attorney in Myrtle Beach with a practice devoted to personal injury and workers compensation cases. I'm a sole practitioner that's been practicing since 1994. I started my practice straight out of law school.
 

Before law school, I was an interrogator in the Army for seven years. I taught interrogation for three years and was a qualified Hungarian and Arabic linguist. The Army taught me both of the languages. I hate what happened in Iraq at Abu Ghraib. Good interrogation is not about torture and coercion. Good interrogation is about persuasion and good questioning techniques. When I taught interrogation we followed the rules and taught our students to follow the rules. The reason you follow the rules is because it's more effective and you get more information. Oddly enough, I believe in the rule of law.
 

While in law school, I started my own business doing computer consulting and custom programming. Three quarters of my work was for an asbestos plaintiff firm. The work I did for the asbestos firm was highlighted in a July, 1992 Law Office Computing article entitled "Handling the Monster Case". I also did work for other law firms, courts, corporate legal departments, banks, hospitals, manufacturers, laboratories and retail stores. It was a lot of fun, it was like getting paid for a hands-on MBA.
 

In 2004, I put together a PowerPoint for Trial Attorneys (and their paralegals) class that focuses on helping lawyers use PowerPoint to tell their client's stories. I also give other presentations on technology, practice management and trial issues.