Daniel J. Herling joined Keller and Heckman in 2007. Mr. Herling focuses his trial practice on product liability, with an emphasis on pharmaceuticals and medical devices, commercial litigation, and antitrust. This includes class actions, intellectual property litigation, patent infringement, and professional liability.
Mr. Herling represents companies in numerous cases in both state and federal courts throughout California and the United States. Mr. Herling acts as counsel for international pharmaceutical, medical device, and dietary supplement industry companies, including overseeing the defense of over 3,000 product liability cases. In addition, he counsels clients on regulatory matters and has advised in the selection and supervision of local counsel and lead trial attorneys.
Mr. Herling represents clients on a spectrum of litigation matters, such as: regional and trial counsel for breast implant manufacturer in a California breast implant litigation; representation of Italian and its Mexican subsidiary manufacturer of commercial products in several class actions venued in the United States; representation of off-shore financial institution in due diligence/commercial dispute with Indian, U.K. and Mauritius companies; Counsel to Korean medical device distributor in commercial dispute with U.S. manufacturer; representation of Japanese manufacturer of silicon chip fabrication machines in intellectual property/commercial disputes; representation of Taiwanese manufacturer of silicon chips in patent infringement action; representation of German manufacturer of industrial products in dispute with its U.S. subsidiary; and representation of Australian and German individuals in fraudulent lending scheme perpetrated by U.S. and Swiss entities.