Atty. Daniel B. Ross

• I did my first trial two weeks after I was licensed to practice law, and I was hooked
• I have always focused my practice on representing clients in personal injury law and employment law disputes, like those that arise from • injuries caused by negligence, • losses caused by employers who don’t follow the law, • insurance carriers who refuse to pay what is due, • and people or companies that just won’t take responsibility for their actions and do the right thing
• I also enjoy helping new business owners get their businesses started
• When I was a child growing up in Chicago, and then Longview, Texas, I wanted to be a lawyer
• I came to Austin to go to college and when I graduated from the University of Texas in 1978, I decided to get into the real world before going to law school
• I started a construction company and operated several other successful businesses
• After my children were born, I returned to UT to attend law school
• After passing the Bar, I worked for other lawyers for a couple of years and then opened my own Austin law firm in 1998
• I have been in my element ever since
• As an attorney, it is important to me to provide relief to my clients
• At one point during my pre-law school career, I had a serious business dispute
• I did something I had never done before – I went to see a lawyer
• I remember walking into his office feeling the weight of the world on my shoulders and a sense of dread
• The lawyer welcomed me and let me know that I was not the only person who had ever been in that situation
• He offered several solutions, but what I remember most was the feeling of relief I had after meeting with him
• I want to do the same thing for my clients that that lawyer did for me
• When I’m helping a client, I like to look at the situation and imagine all of the possible scenarios and outcomes
• I have the ability to see situations from angles that others may miss and I believe in finding ways to deal with and get beyond issues that some may see as problems in a client’s case
• More than once I have obtained a large recovery for a client whose case other lawyers thought had insurmountable “bad facts” for the client
• I enjoy mediation and believe an attorney can achieve a client’s goals through tough negotiation
• I see the law as a way to try to create fairness
• That’s what drives me in the often hostile environment of litigation and dispute resolution – the idea that at the end, I can help my clients achieve a sense of justice through the work I do

MEDIA COVERAGE

• ABC News.com • “America’s Premier Lawyers” as seen in Fortune® Magazine • ABC Radio “The Law Business Insider” • The Texas Lawyer • Democracy Now • The Nation magazine • The London Times • The Guardian (UK newspaper) • KXAN News, Austin, Texas • FOX News Austin ORGANIZATIONS, HONORS AND PUBLIC SERVICE: • American Board of Trial Advocates • AV Preeminent® rating from Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Ratings™ • Certified in Mass-Tort MDL by the Bolch Judicial Institute of Duke University School of Law • Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault at the University of Texas at Austin • Sponsor of the “No TXT Zone” public safety campaign with KEYE-TV • Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation • Million Dollar Advocates (Life Member) • National Employment Lawyers Association • Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund • American Association for Justice • Texas Trial Lawyers Association • Travis County Bar Association • Capital Area Trial Lawyers Association • Contributor to the Bloomberg BNA Fair Labor Standards Act, Third Edition, 2016 Supplement