Daniel T. Campbell

Overview

Dan Campbell has over 25 years of experience representing clients in their biggest litigations and guiding clients through their most significant disputes, working with corporations and organizations facing product liability, commercial, or contractual disputes throughout the United States. In product matters, Dan serves as national coordinating counsel, strategic counsel, and lead trial counsel for companies of all sizes on product liability, warranty, and other personal injury and property damage claims. His tort and product liability experience spans various industries, including automotive, medical device, railroad, and aviation, and his clients include product manufacturers, distributors and retailers. Dan litigates complex insurance coverage disputes, as well as complex contract, commercial litigation and arbitration matters for product manufacturers, service providers, and government contractors.

Dan is ready, and always excited, to take a case through trial. He has first chaired over 30 jury trials to verdict in state and federal courts. In addition to representing companies in their most significant litigations throughout his career, he has also counseled consumer product and automotive industry manufacturers and suppliers in regulatory compliance, recall reporting obligations, pre-litigation strategies and other issues, such as product risk assessment, design and testing strategy, and warning language.

For the past several years Dan co-chaired the firm’s Mass Tort, Product, and Consumer Litigation Group. Dan serves on the Firm’s Talent Development Committee, which assists in formulating policies on associate/counsel development and compensation issues. He is also the immediate-past chair of the firm’s Lawyer Development Committee, where he was responsible for overseeing the review and development process for all of the firm’s associates and counsel. Dan has also been an instructor for Crowell & Moring's Trial Advocacy program since its inception almost 15 years ago. In this program, Crowell & Moring associates and counsel receive on-their feet training and instruction on various trial elements and skills. The program culminates with mock trials held in the D.C. federal courthouse.

Dan began his career in Norfolk, Virginia, where he represented Fortune 500 companies and smaller organizations in defense of product liability, medical device, premises liability, toxic tort, and railroad FELA claims, as well as on commercial litigation matters. He also represented physicians and other health care providers in defense of medical malpractice claims, and nursing home facilities in defense of negligence claims.

Earlier in his career, Dan was the statewide coordinator and chair of the Virginia Bar Association Young Lawyers' Division Model Judiciary Program, which provides an opportunity for high school students to participate in mock trials and mock appeals before real judges, including appellate arguments to the Justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia. Dan also served on the Executive Committee of the VBA YLD.

Dan is ready, and always excited, to take a case through trial. He has first chaired over 30 jury trials to verdict in state and federal courts. In addition to representing companies in their most significant litigations throughout his career, he has also counseled consumer product and automotive industry manufacturers and suppliers in regulatory compliance, recall reporting obligations, pre-litigation strategies and other issues, such as product risk assessment, design and testing strategy, and warning language.

For the past several years Dan co-chaired the firm’s Mass Tort, Product, and Consumer Litigation Group. Dan serves on the Firm’s Talent Development Committee, which assists in formulating policies on associate/counsel development and compensation issues. He is also the immediate-past chair of the firm’s Lawyer Development Committee, where he was responsible for overseeing the review and development process for all of the firm’s associates and counsel. Dan has also been an instructor for Crowell & Moring's Trial Advocacy program since its inception almost 15 years ago. In this program, Crowell & Moring associates and counsel receive on-their feet training and instruction on various trial elements and skills. The program culminates with mock trials held in the D.C. federal courthouse.

Dan began his career in Norfolk, Virginia, where he represented Fortune 500 companies and smaller organizations in defense of product liability, medical device, premises liability, toxic tort, and railroad FELA claims, as well as on commercial litigation matters. He also represented physicians and other health care providers in defense of medical malpractice claims, and nursing home facilities in defense of negligence claims.

Earlier in his career, Dan was the statewide coordinator and chair of the Virginia Bar Association Young Lawyers' Division Model Judiciary Program, which provides an opportunity for high school students to participate in mock trials and mock appeals before real judges, including appellate arguments to the Justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia. Dan also served on the Executive Committee of the VBA YLD.

Career & Education

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College of William & Mary, A.B.
Washington and Lee University School of Law, J.D., 1997
- College of William & Mary, A.B.
- Washington and Lee University School of Law, J.D., 1997
District of Columbia
Virginia
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Supreme Court of the United States
- District of Columbia
- Virginia
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Supreme Court of the United States
Professional Activities and Memberships

Member, American Bar Association

Member, Defense Research Institute

Past Chair, Norfolk Portsmouth Bar Association Young Lawyers Section

Former Statewide Coordinator and Chair, Virginia Bar Association Young Lawyers' Division Model Judiciary Program

Member, Executive Committee, Virginia Bar Association Young Lawyers' Division Model Judiciary Program
Professional Activities and Memberships
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Defense Research Institute
- Past Chair, Norfolk Portsmouth Bar Association Young Lawyers Section
- Former Statewide Coordinator and Chair, Virginia Bar Association Young Lawyers' Division Model Judiciary Program
- Member, Executive Committee, Virginia Bar Association Young Lawyers' Division Model Judiciary Program

Daniel's Insights

Publication | 01.25.24

Proposed Rule Misses The Mark On Improving MDLs

Publication | 06.08.20
COVID-19 Product Liability And The 'Innocent Seller'
Client Alert | 2 min read | 03.19.20
NHTSA Announces Historic Proposal to Modernize Vehicle Safety Standards
Speaking Engagement | 03.30.17
"The Safety Agencies in Transition – What to Expect at FDA, CPSC, and NHTSA in the First 100 Days," Crowell & Moring Webinar

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Representative Matters

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Pharmaceutical Litigation

Serving as lead counsel for a Fortune 20 company in one of the largest pharmaceutical Multi-District Litigations (MDLs) in the country, involving three class actions and over 1,000 individual suits, defending claims of adulteration in certain generic prescription medications.
Served as lead counsel for a pharmaceutical re-packager in multi-case litigation in state and federal courts, defending product defect claims involving certain over the counter medicine.