Lawyer Dana Taschner represents plaintiffs in serious personal injury, product liability, and consumer protection cases. Early in his career, Dana represented vehicle and tire manufacturers including Toyota, Mitsubishi, Ford, and other leading car manufacturers in wrongful death lawsuits. Over the past two decades, Dana has represented many seriously injured persons and families in wrongful death cases involving trucks, motorhomes, ATV (all terrain vehicles) SUVs, automobiles, and motorcycles. Furthermore, Dana has been involved in some of the most significant vehicle product liability claims in the United States, including SUV Rollover litigation, Ford Firestone Litigation, and Harley Davidson "high speed" wobble cases.
Dana has the highest professional rating for legal ability and ethics, and was selected as the Solo Practitioner of the Year by the American Bar Association. Dana has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, 60 Minutes, and other news programs concerning the nation's most significant product liability claims.
Prior to establishing his own firm in 1991, Dana practiced with the world's largest law firm. Early in his career, Dana worked with legendary Supreme Court lawyer E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr., who sponsored Dana's admission to the United States Supreme Court.
Dana has been lead or co-lead counsel in cases involving product liability, intellectual property, consumer protection, the Internet, constitutional claims, business disputes, unfair business practices, major felony, and civil rights violations.
Dana's practice is national in scope, including admission to practice in over a dozen different federal jurisdictions, with cases that have been in over 30 cities, and parties or proceedings in a dozen countries.
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 a 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. Cases undertaken by Dana have been featured by CNN, 60 Minutes, Fox, MSNBC, CNBC, BBC, and covered by New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily News, USA Today, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Orange County Register, La Opinion, Wired, CNET, PC World, 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.
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.
