Daniel Dysart

Danny Dysart is a partner in the firm’s litigation group and an assistant district attorney and felony trial prosecutor in St. Bernard Parish, La. In private practice, he regularly tries cases on behalf of companies and individuals, as well as plaintiffs and defendants, and he has brought matters before federal and state judges and juries, as well as arbitration panels.

Over the past decade, Danny has litigated and tried several high-profile and high-impact cases along the Gulf Coast. His cases involve personal injury, products liability, breach of contract, unfair trade practices, redhibition, Jones Act, RICO, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and the Oil Pollution Act.

Danny has successfully litigated limited issue and bellwether cases in multi-district litigation proceedings, and he has handled the administration of multiple national class action settlements. In addition, Danny gained unique complex litigation experience by serving as co-lead defense counsel in the BP oil spill MDL, the Chinese Drywall MDL, and Hurricane Katrina-related environmental litigation.

Danny is a St. Bernard Bar Association board member, having previously served as both Vice-Chair and Finance Chair. He is a member of the New Orleans Bar Association and the Louisiana District Attorneys Association.

Danny also serves on the board and is the current president of the St. Bernard Autism Awareness Krewe. As part of the Krewe’s mission to identify and assist those dealing with daily struggles associated with autism, Danny has led the Krewe to develop and implement a wide range of programs like the Help Me Home Program, a voluntary program that allows individuals and families to provide first responders critical information about an individual’s intellectual or physical condition in the event of an emergency or call for service.

For his community efforts, Danny was named the St. Bernard Chamber of Commerce 2022 Citizen of the Year.

Year joined firm: 2019

• Lead counsel representing Knauf Gips, an international manufacturer of building products, in an MDL and in state court product liability cases throughout the Gulf South. To date, Danny and the team have tried several bellwether cases and resolved thousands of property damage claims through litigation, class action settlements, and individual settlements. Currently, there remain approximately seven individual cases in federal courts in Louisiana and Alabama which are or will be resolved through dispositive motions, settlement, or jury trials.
• Lead counsel representing residents impacted by a series of July 2023 explosions at Dow Chemical Company in Plaquemine, La., which released thousands of pounds of a cancer-causing chemical, ethylene oxide, into the air and prompted a shelter-in-place mandate for nearby residents. The quantity of ethylene oxide released in the fire is as much ethylene oxide as the Dow Chemical plant typically releases in a decade.
• Lead counsel representing a class of neighboring property owners against Marathon Oil Co. regarding the forced evacuation of their properties and other damages associated with an uncontrolled fire and related emissions at Marathon’s Garyville, La., refinery. The refinery is the third largest in the United States and has been the site of numerous hazardous incidents, many of which have gone unremedied.
• Lead counsel representing more than thirty plaintiffs that purchased residential properties in Melville, La., on which, unbeknownst to plaintiffs, Exxon Mobil had abandoned oil and gas equipment, including contamination associated with a pre-existing pipeline facility. Plaintiffs have subsequently developed serious cancers and other illnesses from the toxins and other chemicals deposited by Exxon Mobil into the ground and surrounding area (a “cancer cluster”).
• Lead counsel representing Halliburton in connection with commercial litigation matters in Louisiana, including claims for personal injuries, both maritime and land-based.

• Class action
• Commercial
• Commercial disputes
• Construction
• Energy and construction
• Environmental
• Plaintiff
• Product liability and recall

• Construction and materials
• Energy
• Industrials
• Oil and gas

• J.D., magna cum laude, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2011
• B.S., summa cum laude, Louisiana State University, 2008

• St. Bernard Bar Association, 2019
• Louisiana District Attorneys Association, 2019
• New Orleans Bar Association, 2011
• Louisiana State Bar Association, 2011

• Louisiana, 2011