Daniel A. Contreras advises clients in high-stakes, complex litigation across the country. He has represented a variety of clients–from individuals to multi-billion dollar companies–across nearly every type of civil case including civil rights, complex commercial disputes, consumer protection, copyright infringement, fraud, personal injury, and trade secret misappropriation.
He is experienced in all stages of litigation, and has obtained favorable outcomes in pre-lawsuit negotiations, mediation, pretrial settlement, trial verdicts, arbitration rulings, and appeals.
His recent successes include obtaining a complete defense verdict after a five-week trial involving a real estate developer, a victory in arbitration involving breach of contract, victories on summary judgment across a variety of matters, and defeating a motion for preliminary injunction in a bet-the-company arbitration.
Lately, Daniel has been representing individuals and classes of plaintiffs in discrimination, sexual harassment, and copyright infringement cases.
Daniel holds his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where he was a top-ranked competitor on the Mock Trial Team and member of the Executive Committee of the California Law Review. He earned the American Jurisprudence Award for having the top grade in his Legislation and Statutory Interpretation class, was the only 2L to advance to the elimination stage of the McBaine Moot Court Competition, and obtained a distinction for being in the top 10% of his class his 3L year. After law school, Daniel served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Xavier Rodriguez of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.
Outside the courtroom, Daniel is passionate about sports, reading, playing music, and being in nature.
Education
- University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, J.D.
- University of Texas at Austin, B.A.
Bar Admissions
- California
