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Daniel C. Girard: Lawyer with Girard Gibbs LLP

Daniel C. Girard

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Daniel C. Girard is the managing partner of Girard Gibbs LLP. Mr. Girard specializes in securities class action lawsuits & complex litigation, and has served in a leadership role in numerous precendent-setting cases.
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San Francisco,  CA  U.S.A.
www.GirardGibbs.com/Girard.asp
Phone866-981-4800

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Practice Areas

  • Class Actions
  • Consumer Protection
  • Consumer Class Actions
  • Consumer Fraud
  • Consumer Litigation
  • Mass Torts
  • Securities
  • Securities Class Actions
  • Complex and Multi-District Litigation
  • Securities Fraud
  • Securities Law
  • Securities Fraud Class Actions
  • International Dispute Resolution
  • International Arbitration
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Arbitration
  • International Mediation
 
Contact InfoTelephone: 866-981-4800
Fax: 415-981-4846
http://www.GirardGibbs.com/Girard.asp
 
University Cornell University, B.A., 1979
 
Law SchoolUniversity of California at Davis, J.D., 1984
 
Admitted1984, California, U.S. District Court, Northern, Eastern, Central and Southern Districts of California and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second and Ninth Circuits
 
Memberships State Bar of California; American Bar Association (Member; Section of Business Law; Vice Chair, Business and Corporate Litigation Committee, 1999—; Newsletter Editor and Subcommittee Chair, 1995-1999; Co-Chair, Task Force on Rule Revision and Litigation Reform, 1997-1999; ABA/ACCA Corporate Practice Conference, Chair, 1996; Class Actions Subcommittee Chair, 1992-1996).
 
LanguagesFrench
 
BornBryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
 
Biography

Editor, UC Davis Law Review, 1983-1984. Author: "Legitimate Businesses Can Behave Badly," Business Law Today, May/June 1998; "Toward Lomé III: Perfecting the European Community's African Partnership," 16 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 459 (1984). Co-Author: "Recent Developments in Class Action Litigation: Mandatory Certification in Complex Securities and Mass Tort Cases," Inside Litig., Sept. 1992. Guest Lecturer, School of Law, University of California, Davis, 1996-1999. Panelist: National Association of Securities Retirement Administrators, 1999; National Association of Public Pension Attorneys, 1999; American Bar Association, 1992-1999; American Corporate Counsel Association, 1995; San Francisco Business Roundtable, 1995; U.C. Berkeley Asian Law Symposium, 1995; UC Davis Extension Public Policy Conference, 1996; California Fair Employment Housing Commission, Civil Rights Symposium, 1996; American Society of Corporate Secretaries, 1996; Member, United States Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules; American Law Institute; Speaker, "Class Action Litigation in the United States," Presentation for Japanese Fact-Finding Mission on Class Actions in the United States, 2007; Speaker, "The Subprime Loan Crisis- Strategies for Pension Fund Counsel," 2008 NAPPA Investment Roundtable, 2008; Speaker, "Electronic Discovery and the Amended Rules After a Year - What's New? What's Next?," Emerging Ethics Issues in E-Discovery Conference, West Legal Works, 2008; Speaker, "Auction Rate Securities: The Real Story," NERA's Eleventh Annual Finance, Law and Economics Securities Seminar, 2008; Speaker, "How the Economic Crisis is Affecting U.S. Class Actions," Asset Managers Working Group on U.S. Class Actions, Paris, France, 2008; Speaker, "Ethical Issues in E-Discovery," Electronic Discovery and Records Retention Conference, Thomson Reuters, 2008; Speaker, "Les tendances des contentieux Américains issus de la crise financière," Paris, France, 2009; Speaker, "Opportunities for Cooperation between Plaintiffs' Counsel in Global Financial Frauds," Financial Fraud- Background and Litigation Panel, Global Justice Forum, 2009; Speaker, "Iqbal/Twombly Fallout- Are General Federal Rules Passé?," ABA, Section of Litigation Annual Conference, 2010; Co-author, "Limiting Evasive Discovery: A Proposal for Three Cost-Saving Amendments to the Federal Rules," Denver University Law Review, 2010; Speaker, Panel on Dispositive Motions, 2010 Litigation Review Conference, Duke Law School, 2010.

 
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Stop judicial bailouts
Daniel C. Girard, November 14, 2011, previously published by The National Law Journal on December 1, 2008
As a law student in the early 1980s, I remember noticing that courts would occasionally justify their decisions as furthering “public policy.” Public policy was simple: Fraud is bad. Wasn’t it great, I thought, that we share a common view of public policy?

Appeal This: Under What Circumstances Can a District Court Include Attorneys' Fees in an Appellate Bond Under FRAP 7?
Dena Connolly,Daniel C. Girard, November 14, 2011
Let's face it: utter the phrase "appellate procedure" and even the most committed litigator gets drowsy-eyed, When it comes to class action appeals, however, everyone has an opinion, An appeal can tie up a settlement and jeopardize a recovery which may have taken years to achieve. At the...

Billions to Answer For
Daniel C. Girard, November 14, 2011, previously published by Legal Times on September 15, 2008
In their Aug. 18 analysis "Billions Not For the Plaintiffs’ Bar," Michael Rivera and Erik Frias suggest that buyback transactions will largely dispose of class actions against banks that sold auction-rate securities, denying plaintiffs lawyers what they had allegedly viewed as a...



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Daniel C. Girard
Girard Gibbs LLP
601 California Street, 14th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108-2819




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