Dane Butswinkas focuses on trial and arbitration work. He has tried numerous cases throughout the country involving commercial claims, product and medical claims, and criminal defense. His arbitration work is domestic and international, representing corporations before the AAA and the ICC.

His experience includes:

• defending corporations, officers, and directors in class actions arising under the securities laws, deceptive trade practices statutes, RICO, ERISA, and the Clayton and Sherman Acts, as well as in grand jury investigations of the electricity, defense, and technology industries;
• defending financial institutions, directors, and countries in commercial litigation in the financial services area, including in litigation involving the primary and secondary mortgage markets, the secondary insurance market, and corporate governance of financial institutions;
• defending corporations in product liability actions, including representing pharmaceutical companies in the Baycol and Vioxx litigation, and defending hospitals and physicians in medical malpractice trials; and
• defending companies in commercial litigation involving the food, telecommunications, and power industries throughout the United States, as well as in Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

As lead counsel, his recent work includes: winning a defense verdict in a $200 million ERISA stock drop trial in Indiana; winning a $20 million fraud verdict for an international corporation in California; winning dismissal for a financial institution of a $100 million commercial claim in New York; winning summary judgment for a corporation in a $150 million securities action in Seattle; securing dismissal and sanctions against plaintiffs for a corporation in a $200 million fraud action in California; prevailing against a $55 million commercial claim and receiving a multi-million dollar award, including attorneys' fees, for an international corporation before the ICC; successfully defending and winning an award of fees for a corporation in a product liability arbitration before the AAA in Texas; and winning defense verdicts for a government official in commercial litigation in the District of Columbia, a corporate officer in a Virginia sexual harassment trial, and a nationally-recognized teaching hospital in a wrongful death trial.

Mr. Butswinkas joined the Firm in 1989. He served on the Firm's Hiring Committee from 1992-2004 and on the Firm's Executive Committee from 2004 to present. He was appointed by the Virginia Supreme Court to serve on the faculty of the Virginia State Bar Professionalism Course (2004-2007). He is recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for commercial litigation; was recognized as a "Top Lawyer" in Litigation 2007 -- A Supplement to The American Lawyer & Corporate Counsel; and was recognized in The Washingtonian Magazine and The Washington Post Magazine as one of the Washington, D.C. area's best lawyers in commercial litigation and criminal defense.