David Filer, Democratic candidate for East Hampton Town Justice, poses...

David Filer, Democratic candidate for East Hampton Town Justice, poses for a portrait outside of East Hampton Library on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. -- slVOTE -- Credit: James Escher

DAVID L. FILER

Democratic

BACKGROUND:

  • Filer, 61, of East Hampton, is running on the Democratic and Working Family party lines in the general election.
  • Since 2019 he has been a partner with Richard Whalen in the general law practice of Whalen Filer PLLC in Amagansett.
  • Filer was general counsel of the East Hampton nonprofit Organizacion Latino Americana (OLA) of Eastern Long Island from November 2020 to June 2022.
  • He was an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office from 2002 to 2018.
  • He earned an undergraduate degree in 1985 from Lynchburg College in Virginia, and returned there to receive a master’s degree in 1991. He earned a Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School in 2002.
  • He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 2003.
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