Daniel H. Weineris head of Hughes Hubbard & Reed's Commercial Litigation practice, and a partner in the International & Domestic Arbitration and Intellectual Property Disputes groups. Dan is a seasoned trial lawyer who has first-chair experience in more than 25 litigations and arbitrations. He has been recognized as a leading international arbitration lawyer by Chambers USA and Chambers Global, and ranked in The Legal 500 United States as one of the top product liability and mass tort defense lawyers for pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
Professional Activities
Firm governance: head, Commercial Litigation group; Executive Committee, member
Member of the Art Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1995 – 1998; 2003 – 2006; 2009 – 2011; 2015 – present
Member of The Maritime Law Association, 2012 – present
Member of the Committee on International Commercial Disputes of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 2011 – 2013
Fellow, David Rockefeller Fellows Program of the Partnership for New York City, 2008 – 2009
Deputy special counsel, United States Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Government Information, Fall 1995 – Summer 1996
Recognition
Listed in American Lawyer Media's The Best Lawyers in America for International Arbitration-Commercial, 2007 – 2016 editions
Recognized in New York Super Lawyers Business Litigation, 2007 – 2016
Listed in The Legal 500 United States as one of the top international arbitration lawyers, 2013
Ranked in The Legal 500 United States as one of the top product liability and mass tort defense lawyers (pharmaceuticals and medical devices), 2012
Listed as a leading International Arbitration lawyer by Chambers USA, 2005 and 2006 editions, and Chambers Global, 2007 Edition
Highlighted Publications
Co-author, "Joint Ventures," chap. 50 in Successful Partnering Between Inside and Outside Counsel, edited by Robert L. Haig, Thomson Reuters Westlaw and the Association of Corporate Counsel, 2014
Highlighted Lectures
"Tell Me No Secrets: Privilege as it Applies to In-House Counsel," Continuing Legal Education lecture presented to 45 Fortune 100 companies, 2004 – 2016
Court Admissions
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1985
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 1986
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1989
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1994
United States Tax Court, 1994
United States Supreme Court, 1995
United States Court of International Trade, 2005
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 2005
United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, 2010
United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, 2011
Highlighted Matters
Representation of Merck, Pfizer, Cipla and Turing Pharmaceuticals in international joint venture and licensing disputes and arbitrations
Representation of Lorillard and LG Group in national products liability actions involving cigarettes and hand-held cellular telephones
Representation of Cantor Fitzgerald, HBO and Bureau Veritas in commercial disputes and arbitrations
Representation of Christie's in general commercial litigation
Representation of American Bureau of Shipping in maritime litigation
Representation of Boehringer Ingelheim, Hachette Filipacchi Presse, MediaNews Group, Ajinomoto, LeSportsac and EAS in trademark infringement and false advertising disputes
Representation of Central Bank of Paraguay in federal litigation to recover funds stolen by former government officials
Representation of the American Museum of Natural History, Brooklyn Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Queens Museum of Art, Solomon Guggenheim Foundation, University of Pennsylvania and University of California in response to Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act claims, cultural patrimony issues and other matters
