Dana McDaniel is an intellectual property litigator and mediator with extensive experience representing clients in patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret and technology disputes. He also has substantial experience litigating a broad range of commercial matters, including contract disputes, shareholder suits and construction claims. Dana has represented clients in technology and intellectual property transactions and has litigated patent infringement and other intellectual property cases across the country and before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and the International Trade Commission.
Dana is also a Virginia Supreme Court-certified Civil Case Mediator. His Mediation Practice focuses both on helping parties settle pending technology and intellectual property lawsuits and on facilitating or mediating these disputes before parties initiate litigation. Dana's other mediation services include: Early Neutral Evaluations to assist parties in designing and managing a focused discovery plan tailored to their particular case; Expedited and Emergency Mediation and Arbitration Services to resolve disputes that threaten to disrupt contract performance or on-going business operations; and Discovery Mediation to provide parties an accessible resource to mediate or arbitrate discovery disputes and help counsel better manage the discovery process and resolve issues efficiently as they arise.
Dana is listed in Best Lawyers in
America in the field of Intellectual Property Law. He is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has been named among Virginia 's Legal Elite and Super Lawyers since those surveys were introduced in
Virginia
. In 2000, he was profiled as
Virginia 's Top Technology and Intellectual Property attorney in the inaugural issue of Virginia Business Magazine's Legal Elite.
Dana earned his B.S. in Business from Virginia Tech in 1977. He received his J.D. from the
College of William & Mary in 1985, where he graduated Order of the Coif and was a member of the National Moot Court Team. Between his graduation from Virginia Tech and his matriculation at William & Mary Law School in 1982, Dana worked as a marketing representative in the computer industry with Burroughs Corporation (now Unisys) and Computer Sciences Corporation.
Dana served as an Adjunct Professor of Antitrust Law at the University of Richmond Law School from 1998 through 1999 and is presently Adjunct Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the
Liberty University Law School
, a position he has held since 2006.
Dana is an active member of the Board of Directors of Children, Incorporated, a Richmond-based international children's aid organization.
Dana has long been active, and has held numerous leadership positions, in a variety of Professional Organizations, as indicated below.
Professional Associations and Memberships:
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The American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Law Section
Chair and co-Chair of the Young Lawyers Section, 1996-1998
Co-Chair Annual Meeting Committee, 1999
- The Virginia State Bar
Board of Directors of the Intellectual Property Law Section, 1995-1997
Chair of the Computer Study and Implementation Committee, 2000-2006
Chair of the Standing Committee on Professionalism, 2006- Present
- Virginia Bar Association
Intellectual Property Law Section, Council Member, 2004- Present
- The Greater Richmond Intellectual Property Law Association
Founding Director and member,1994 - present
- John Marshall Inn of Court, Master
- The Federal Bar Association, Richmond Chapter
