Daniel Leathers

Dan is passionate about his clients and holding corporations accountable for recovering on their behalf in complex medical cases and mass actions, including complex pharmaceutical and medical device multidistrict litigations centralized throughout the country.

Before joining Gibbs Law Group, Dan worked at a leading plaintiff-side law firm and helped revise the law in favor of injured persons. In his appellate advocacy work, Dan, in a matter of first impression in front of New York’s highest court, helped expand New York’s strict medical malpractice statute of limitations to not begin until birth. B.F. v. Reprod. Med. Assocs. of New York, LLP, 30 N.Y.3d 608 (N.Y. 2017). Dan also briefed and argued an appeal that resulted in a full reversal of a trial court grant of a motion for summary judgment in a complex medical malpractice matter, allowing his client to vindicate her rights at the trial court. Hall v. Bolognese, 210 A.D.3d 958 (NY 2d Dept., 2022).

Prior to joining the private practice of law, Dan clerked for the second judge in the State of New Jersey assigned to the State’s mass-tort docket: the Honorable Carol Higbee, a New Jersey Superior Court Civil Division Presiding Judge (since deceased).

Dan completed his J.D., cum laude, at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and he served as the Executive Articles Editor of the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law. At graduation, Dan received awards for Trial Tactics, Trial Advocacy excellence, and Constitutional Law. His student note on data privacy is published: Giving Bite to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Safe Harbor, 41 Case W. Res. J. Int’l L. 193.

Before law school, Dan worked at the ACLU of the National Capital Area, protecting and advocating for individual constitutional rights.

Dan is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.