Daniel Girard is the managing partner of Girard Gibbs LLP, a firm specializing in complex litigation with offices in San Francisco and New York. He has advised and represented financial institutions, public pension funds and individuals in matters arising under United States securities and corporate law, antitrust law and unfair competition law. His prior case work includes the successful representation of European institutional investors in litigation in United States courts. He currently serves as lead counsel in several major securities class actions. He has over 20 years of experience in the resolution of complex litigation through mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.
Mr. Girard serves on the United States Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, where he participated in the development of the electronic discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and is a member of the planning committee for the 2010 Litigation Review Conference at Duke Law School. He is a member of the American Law Institute and has held a number of leadership positions in the American Bar Association, and currently serves the Business Law section’s representative on the Task Force on Federal Preemption. He serves as a guest lecturer on class actions and complex litigation at several Bay Area law schools. Mr. Girard has written and published on a variety of class action and business law issues.
Mr. Girard was selected by his peers as a 2007, 2008 and 2009 Northern California Super Lawyer (Law & Politics Magazine), recognizing him as one of the top 5-percent of attorneys practicing in Northern California.