David is the only member of his family involved in television, although his younger brother Raphael Shore made three political documentaries about the Middle East conflict.

[2] Following his education he initially worked as a municipal and corporate lawyer in his native Canada before he moved to Los Angeles to break into television.

Shore and his co-writers won the Writers Guild of America Award for episodic drama at the February 2010 ceremony for the premiere.

[citation needed] In February 2013, Entertainment Weekly reported that Shore would write for an upcoming ABC television show titled Doubt, about "a 'charming low-rent' lawyer battling his demons"[8] starring Steve Coogan.

[citation needed] In August, 2015, Amazon Video released a pilot episode for Sneaky Pete, a show Shore and Bryan Cranston created.

[11] He lived in Encino Hills, California, with his wife Judy and their three children until 2010, when the family moved to a larger home in nearby Pacific Palisades.