David Jargiello

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Trustee

CA Supreme Court—Attorney Member
Term: 9/19/2025 to September 2026
Committees: TBD

David Jargiello is an attorney member of the State Bar of California Board of Trustees, appointed by the California Supreme Court in 2025.

Mr. Jargiello is a Partner at VLP Law Group LLP and Chair of its Professional Responsibility and Risk Management Practice Group. He also serves as the firm’s General Counsel and was instrumental in working with VLP’s founders in the formation of the firm in 2008. Mr. Jargiello has represented emerging growth companies and their investors in hundreds of financing transactions, including early-stage convertible debt and bridge financings, preferred stock financings, managed private placements, and IPOs. David has also served as both buyer and seller counsel in numerous M&A transactions, including mergers, stock sales and asset sales with private and public buyers. 

Prior to joining VLP, Mr. Jargiello was Venture Partner and General Counsel of Flywheel Ventures, a seed and early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Prior to joining Flywheel, Mr. Jargiello was a partner and the firmwide General Counsel of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe. He was also a Shareholder and General Counsel of Venture Law Group which he joined as one of the original 14 founding attorneys from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

In addition to practicing law, Mr. Jargiello is a Lecturer at the University of California Berkeley School of Law where he teaches Professional Responsibility. He also writes, speaks and consults frequently on the spectrum of professional and business matters that confront lawyers and law firms, and is a former member of the State Bar of California’s Committee on Professional Liability Insurance and Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct.

Mr. Jargiello received his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, a masters degree from Stanford University, and his undergraduate degree from Case Western Reserve University.