Nationally recognized, experienced toxic exposure defense
Dan Long defends manufacturers, premises owners and contractors in complex multiparty toxic exposure personal injury and wrongful death litigation. He has represented clients in a wide range of industries involving a variety of chemicals and particulates, including:
- Automotive and automotive parts manufacturers
- Energy providers
- Industrial and residential construction materials manufacturers and suppliers
- Chemical manufacturers
- Glass products manufacturers
- Pharmaceutical manufacturers
- Personal hygiene manufacturers
- Food manufacturers
His experience serving as local, regional and national counsel in cases gives him unique insight into the needs of the client and the demands of various types of litigation. This experience allows Dan to understand how to provide the best possible defense in the most efficient and economical manner possible. Dan has solved the problems of his clients in some of the most complex and ever-evolving types of litigation possible.
Dan is the law school recruiting chair and the summer associate program chair for the Indianapolis office.
Experience in Action
- Defends claims involving a wide variety of chemicals/particulates such as asbestos, silica, diacetyl, chromated copper arsenic, thimerosal and coal tar pitch volatiles.
- Serves as national coordinating counsel for clients with serial litigation involving the same product to ensure consistent and efficient representation across cases in numerous jurisdictions.
- Acts as court-appointed liaison counsel in complex multiparty toxic tort litigation to help create local rules and practices that more efficiently allow the parties and the courts to handle numerous cases at the same time.
- Helps clients new to serial litigation with the due diligence necessary to identify potential insurance sources, key witnesses and documents, and to setting litigation reserves.
- Resolves claims across the country for a variety of clients with a wide range of plaintiffs’ attorneys.
Capabilities
Professional Recognitions
- Best Lawyers in America® (2013-present)
- Indiana Super Lawyers® (2012-present: Personal Injury - Products: Defense)
- Indiana Super Lawyers® "Rising Stars" (2009-2011)
Professional & Civic Activities
- Defense Research Institute Product Liability Steering Committee
- Ad Hoc Committee, member
- Ambassadors Program, chair
- Chemical and Toxic Tort Exposure Specialty Litigation Group, chair
- Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana, Product Liability Section, chair (2008)
- American Lung Association
- Indiana Leadership Board, chair (2017-present)
- Fight For Air Stair Climb executive leadership team, chair (2015-2016)
- Park Tudor Parents Association, president (2015-2018)
- Meridian Street United Methodist Church
- Finance Committee (2017-present)
- Lay leader (2014-2017)
- Liturgist (2016-present)
- Usher (1996-present)
- Indiana State Bar Association, member
- The Honorable William I. Garrard of the Indiana Court of Appeals, judicial law clerk (1996-1998)
News & Insights
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- Seminar2022 DRI Product Liability Conference | Las Vegas, Nev.
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- Media Mention
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- Article
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- SeminarDefense Research Institute (DRI)
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- Presentation"On Campus Interview Strategies and Preparation Hints"Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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- Presentation"Advanced Deposition Preparation"DRI Asbestos Medicine Seminar
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- Presentation"How to Succeed in Your Summer Job"Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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- SeminarIndy Fuel Game to benefit the Quarles Climbers Fight for Air Stair Climb teamIndiana Farmers Coliseum at Indiana State Fairgrounds
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- Presentation"Interview Preparation Strategies- How to Make the Most of an Opportunity"Indiana University Maurer School of Law
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Education
- Indiana University Bloomington Maurer School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1996)
- Indiana University Bloomington (B.A., 1993)
Bar Admissions
- Indiana