Daniel Girard
Daniel Girard is the founder and managing partner of Girard Gibbs LLP, a San Francisco and New York-based litigation firm with a nationwide practice, specializing in class actions and complex litigation. His experience extends to matters involving securities, antitrust, telecommunications, predatory lending and civil rights. He has served in leadership positions in high-profile cases throughout the United States, and is currently lead counsel in a number of important securities class actions.
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 extensively 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.
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.
He is active in a variety of community activities, and served as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the St. Matthew’s Episcopal Day School in San Mateo, California from 2005-2008.