Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Class Actions and Mass Torts

Partner - Litigation and Investigations

Co-Leader, Data Privacy, Telecommunications & Collections

Dan is the co-leader of the firm’s Data Privacy, Telecommunications and Collections Class Action Team and represents companies in the technology and sharing economy sectors, focusing on class action defense and other complex commercial litigation matters, regulatory counseling and investigations, and privacy and data security matters.

Dan has been a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (CIPP/US) since 2008 and routinely defends companies in putative class actions involving data security breaches, ransomware attacks, and other alleged invasions of the right to privacy or privacy-related statutes, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA), and the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).

Dan has also defended class actions under state and federal antitrust laws, the California Unfair Competition Law (UCL), and the Consumer Legal Remedies Act (CLRA), as well as numerous actions alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act.