Dave Poston is a licensed attorney who has held numerous international in-house and agency positions for law and other professional services firms handling international responsibilities from offices in Atlanta, London, New York, and San Francisco.
Throughout his career, Dave has developed media opportunities for his clients and employers in hundreds of important international media and trade publications. He managed firm-wide public relations and marketing in various roles as marketing and/or public relations director or manager at King & Spalding LLP, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, and Jones & Askew LLP. He worked with more than 20 West Coast law, architecture, construction, financial services, management consulting, real estate, technology, and travel clients at Blattel Communications.
Dave has earned recognition from a variety of prestigious organizations over the course of his career, most notably being named the Public Relations Professional of the Year by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) in 2020. Dave also leads Poston Communications’ Crisis Communications and Litigation PR division, which has been recognized by Chambers and Partners as one of the top 20 crisis firms in the U.S., achieving rankings in its Litigation Support and Crisis & Risk Management Guides. Additionally, Dave is a Ranked Individual in Band 4 of the Litigation Support Guide and Band 2 of the Crisis & Risk Management Guide. Dave “is intelligent, a creative problem solver, pushes the envelope, and always looks at situations from an objective perspective,” one Poston client told Chambers researchers.
Dave graduated with a double major — Bachelor of Arts in political science and English & history — from Emory University in Atlanta and received his law degree from Tulane Law School in New Orleans. He also received training in graphic design at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and sales with Miller Heiman and Motorola’s Six Sigma University. He has served as the co-chair of the Legal Marketing Association’s (LMA) “Strategies” magazine, president of the LMA Southeastern Chapter, and a member of the 2003 Committee of the Year for the LMA New York Metropolitan Chapter. He is also a member of the State Bar of Georgia.
