Daniel C. Girard

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Education
• J.D., University of California at Davis School of Law, 1984
  Editor, Law Review
• B.A., Cornell University, 1979

Admissions
• California;
• United States Supreme Court;
• United States Court of Appeals for the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth and Ninth Circuits;
• United States District Court for the Northern, Central, Eastern and Southern Districts of California, District of Colorado

Memberships
• United States Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules;
• American Law Institute;
• Past Chair of the American Bar Association, Business Law Section Subcommittee on Class Actions;
• Co-Chair of the Business and Corporate Litigation Committee’s Task Force on Litigation Reform and Rule Revision;
• Vice-Chair of the Business and Corporate Litigation Committee

Daniel C. Girard serves as the firm’s managing partner and coordinates the prosecution of various securities, antitrust and consumer legal matters handled by the firm.

He has successfully prosecuted over 75 class action matters and served in leadership positions in a number of high-profile cases. Some of the cases in which Mr. Girard served as lead counsel include In re American Express Financial Advisors Securities Litigation, ($100 million settlement), In re Prison Realty Securities Litigation, ($104 million settlement), In re i2 Technologies Securities Litigation, ($88 million settlement), and In re MCI Non-Subscriber Rates Litigation, ($90 million). Mr. Girard represented the California State Teachers Retirement System in litigation in a non-class securities action against Qwest Communications, Inc. and outside auditor Arthur Andersen, resulting in a recovery of $45 million for CalSTRS. He also served as a member of the Executive Committee in the Natural Gas Antitrust Cases I, II, III and IV, antitrust litigation against numerous natural gas companies for manipulating the market for natural gas in California. The Natural Gas litigation resulted in total settlements of nearly $160 million to date.

Mr. Girard currently represents Nashville country music publisher Cal IV Entertainment LLC in copyright litigation against YouTube and Google, Inc. He also represents Allianz of America, Inc., Fireman’s Fund and other large private institutional investors in litigation arising out of their investments in Winstar Communications, Inc., and serves as lead counsel in the H&R Block Express IRA Litigation.

Mr. Girard is a member of United States Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, and participated in the development of the electronic discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. He is a member of the American Law Institute. He is past Chair of the American Bar Association Business Law Section Subcommittee on Class Actions, Co-Chair of the Business and Corporate Litigation Committee’s Task Force on Litigation Reform and Rule Revision, and Vice-Chair of the Business and Corporate Litigation Committee. He has served as a guest lecturer on class actions and complex litigation at the major Bay Area law schools.

Mr. Girard was recently honored as a 2007 Northern California Super Lawyer by Law & Politics Magazine, recognizing him as one of the top 5-percent of attorneys practicing in Northern California. He serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the St. Matthew’s Episcopal Day School in San Mateo, California. He has been a volunteer conservation easement monitor for the Peninsula Open Space Trust since 1991.

He is a 1984 graduate of the School of Law, University of California at Davis, where he served as an editor of the Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University in 1979.