DANA B. TASCHNER "Lawyer of the Year Award...Through your outstanding leadership and advocacy, you have provided the voice of justice in protecting the basic human rights of your clients."
"Mr. Taschner's devotion to fighting oppression earned him the American Bar Association's Lawyer of the Year award. He was chosen from a pool of approximately 245,000 other lawyers in North America…Dana Taschner's unwavering dedication to his clients can be seen in his personal relationships with them, relationships that often outlive the outcome of the case. Dana Taschner, whose integrity and selfless devotion to fairness truly embody our American justice system, is a role model for us all." — Senator Harry Reid, United States Senate Majority Leader |
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| Dana's first trials were as an associate at the world's largest law firm. Dana has been engaged in a range of cases, including complex business disputes, nationwide drug recalls, unsafe vehicles, product safety, catastrophic injury, intellectual property, Internet security and privacy, and electronic commerce. Dana is currently engaged in complex multidistrict litigation concerning the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill regarded as the largest environmental disaster in US history, and Toyota Vehicle Recall Litigation, regarding the largest vehicle recall in US History. Dana maintains the highest professional rating for ability and ethics. Dana has been lead or co-lead counsel in a number of significant cases, including complex class actions, product liability, intellectual property, Internet, constitutional, civil rights, business disputes, unfair business practices, price discrimination (Robinson-Patman Act), major felony (federal drug task force/conspiracies), international trademark and brand protection, and other cases. Dana’s cases have been in diverse areas of the law and have included complex legal and procedural issues. Among the cases litigated by Dana over the last two decades include Silicone Gel Breast Implant Litigation, Rampart civil rights litigation, Diet Drug (Fen Phen) Litigation, Rezulin Litigation, Microsoft security litigation, defective vehicle and SUV rollovers, and international business and technology litigation. Dana has represented clients from over a dozen countries in cases before the courts of the United States and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2000, Dana was appointed as an Attorney Settlement Officer for the United States District Court for the Central District of California (2000-2003) in the complex specialties of class actions and product liability. Dana is a member of the Intellectual Property Owner's Association and the American Bar Association. Dana is a former national co-chair of the Federal Bar Association Appellate Practice Committee. Selected from over 200,000 lawyers, the American Bar Association named Dana the Solo Practitioner of the Year at the ABA Annual Meeting in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional association in the world. To visit The Congressional Record on The Library of Congress website and read Tribute to Dana Taschner presented before the United States Senate by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, click here. While most cases handled by Dana are individual cases on behalf of individual plaintiffs, some of the cases undertaken have involved nationwide product recalls, new global technology, or presentation of novel issues of law resulting in important legal decisions. Some of the cases have resulted in media coverage in the United States or abroad. Called a “legal luminary” by the Wall Street Journal and a “great plaintiff lawyer” by the Huffington Post, cases undertaken by Dana have been featured by CNN, 60 Minutes, Fox, Headline, MSNBC, CNBC, BBC, Al Jezeera, Swiss National TV, Canadian National Public Radio, Tech TV, and covered by New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Post, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily News, Yomiuri Shimbun, Bild, Sun, USA Today, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Orange County Register, La Opinion, Times of India, Computer World, Wired, CNET, PC World, Computer Business Review, Computer Weekly, PC Security News, China Byte, E-Commerce Times, Computable News Amsterdam, ZD Germany, Northeast China News, Arizona Republic, Miami Herald, and others. Dana has authored articles on various legal topics published by International Financial Law Review, Los Angeles Lawyer, Arizona Law Journal, Hawaii Law Review, and authored Opinion Editorials published in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Daily News, USA Today, and other publications. Dana has been an invited speaker at regional, national, and international conferences, including American Bar Association Leadership Conference, Federal Bar Association Federal Litigation Conference, International Bar Association Conference, and the Intellectual Property Owner's Association (IPO) Annual Meeting. Recent speaking engagements include national legal conferences and symposia regarding Toyota Litigation (Harris Martin and Mass Torts Made Perfect) and Gulf Oil Spill Litigation and Developments (sponsored by the Louisiana State Bar). In his early career, Dana was an associate lawyer at world's largest law firm, and worked with legendary Supreme Court lawyer E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr., who mentored Dana along with the current Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Roberts. Dana Taschner practices law in California and in federal district and appellate courts throughout the United States. In jurisdictions or courts where he is not admitted to practice, affiliations exist with locally licensed attorneys who serve as co-counsel. Dana has served as co-counsel with many of the most respected lawyers in the United States. |
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