​Daniel L. Weiss is an Of Counsel in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Los Angeles office.  He is an accomplished litigator with substantial experience handling general litigation, class action, white-collar defense and investigation, crisis management, employment and sports law matters.

Mr. Weiss has represented clients, both plaintiffs and defendants, in numerous jurisdictions in high-stakes cases.  Mr. Weiss has litigated in federal, state and territorial courts throughout the United States, as well as before several arbitration organizations.  Mr. Weiss has participated in more than a dozen trials, arbitrations and administrative proceedings.

Representative matters include:

• Representing a petroleum refining company in an administrative proceeding before the State of Washington Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals in connection with a state-OSHA citation arising from an industrial incident involving fatalities.
• Represented a professional athlete in an arbitration overturning a professional sports league’s suspension based on an allegation that he violated the league’s anti-doping rules by taking a prohibited substance.
• Achieved several unprecedented victories on behalf of an international retailer of luxury products in a highly contentious litigation arising from the unlawful award of a multimillion dollar duty-free concession agreement.
• Obtained summary judgment on behalf of a global financial institution in a class action with a potential exposure of over $400 million alleging a violation of Missouri’s second mortgage loan act.
• Represented an Olympic athlete in his successful appeal before the Court of Arbitration for Sport challenging the international federation’s request that the athlete receive a lifetime ban, which allowed the athlete to compete and medal at both the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
• Achieved a complete victory on all claims on behalf of a synagogue in a multi-day bench trial in Los Angeles Superior Court against former members who fraudulently filed documents with the secretary of state indicating they were the officers and directors of the synagogue and then converted the synagogue’s real property by obtaining a several hundred thousand dollar hard-money loan.
• Obtained a complete dismissal with prejudice of an action against a synagogue following the commencement of a multi-day trial in Los Angeles Superior Court.
• Obtained a favorable award for a homebuilder following a three-week employment arbitration before the American Arbitration Association.

Mr. Weiss co-authored the chapter on the Consumers Legal Remedies Act in California Civil Procedure Before Trial: Claims and Defenses (The Rutter Group).  Mr. Weiss also co-authored the White Collar Criminal Law chapter in the Chief Executive Legal Guide and the article “Corporate Miranda Warnings:  Defining Your Role and Avoiding Pitfalls in Internal Company Investigations,” which appeared in the American Bar Association’s Litigation Journal.

Mr. Weiss is a member of the American Bar Association’s Section of Litigation.  Mr. Weiss is also a member of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers, the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Sports Lawyers Association.  Mr. Weiss serves on the Board of Directors of the Valley Jewish Community Center and is a Regional Board Member for the Anti-Defamation League, where he was also the former chair of the Legal Advisory Committee.

Mr. Weiss served as a law clerk to the Honorable Virginia A. Phillips in the U.S. District Court, Central District of California, Riverside, from 2005 to 2006.

Mr. Weiss earned a law degree in 2005 from the University of Southern California, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as Executive Notes Editor of the Southern California Law Review, which published his note, “California Inequitable Parole System: A Proposal to Reestablish Fairness.”  He graduated magna cum laude in 2002 from the University of Arizona with a B.S. degree in Marketing.

Mr. Weiss is admitted to practice law in the State of California.