Daniel S. Robinson

Income Partner

Daniel S. Robinson is a shareholder partner in the Newport Beach office of Robinson Calcagnie‚ Inc. where he focuses on complex civil litigation involving personal injury, consumer rights, products liability and environmental contamination. He is admitted to practice law in New York‚ Pennsylvania and California. Dan has obtained substantial trial verdicts to date, including a $40 million verdict for two women who suffered ovarian cancer from using Johnson’s baby powder, a $14.5 million verdict for a client injured in a motorcycle accident, a $5.3 million verdict for a client injured in an auto accident, and others. Dan Robinson is Co-Lead Counsel for ovarian cancer cases filed in the California Judicial Council Coordinated Proceeding, JCCP No. 4872.

Dan also represents municipalities in environmental contamination cases, including Orange County Water District and other water producers throughout Orange County, California, in litigation to recover costs associated with the PFAS contamination of drinking water, surface water, and groundwater. He also represented the City of Huntington Beach against responsible parties for the 2021 Huntington Beach Oil Spill, which resulted in a $5.25 million Settlement.

Dan has received several honors and awards to date, including Daily Journal’s Top 100 Lawyers (2022-2025) and Top Plaintiff Lawyers (2025, 2024, 2022, 2018, 2015); Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers (2022-2026); Daily Journal’s 2021 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year award (One October Mandalay Bay Shooting cases); Best Lawyers’ 2022 Lawyer of the Year in the area of product liability litigation, Orange County; Super Lawyers’ Top 50 lawyers in Orange County (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2016); Daily Journal’s Top 20 Attorneys Under 40 in California (2015); American Association of Justice’s “Wiedemann & Wysocki” award and “Above and Beyond” award (2017, 2014); The National Trial Lawyers’ Top 40 Lawyers Under 40 (2012); and Orange County Trial Lawyers Association’s Top Gun Award (2011).

Mr. Robinson has been appointed to several leadership roles, including:

• Co-Lead Counsel in Johnson & Johnson Talcum Powder Cases, JCCP 4872;
• Co-Lead Counsel in the Allergan Implant Cases, JCCP 5104; Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in MDL 2921;
• Class Counsel in Head v. Regal Medical Group, Inc., 23STCV02939;
• Interim Co-Lead Counsel in Adams v. Calibrated Healthcare Systems, 8:24-cv-01754;
• Interim Co-Lead Counsel in In re Episource LLC Data Breach Litigation, 2:25-cv-05330;
• Interim Co-Lead Counsel in In re Hot Topic Data Breach Litigation, 2:24-cv-09215;
• Class Counsel in In re loanDepot Data Breach Litigation, 8:24-cv-00136;
• Class Counsel in Tsvetanova v. Regents of the University of California, 37-2021-00039888-CU-NP-CTL;
• Class Counsel in In re PPLA Data Incident Litigation, 21STCV44106;
• Class Counsel in In re Ring LLC Privacy Litigation, 19-CV-10899 MWF (RAOx);
• Class Counsel in In Re Ambry Genetics Data Breach Litigation, 8:20-cv-00791;
• Co-Lead Counsel in Yahoo! Inc. Private Information Disclosure Cases, JCCP 4895; Additional Settlement Class Counsel in MDL 2752;
• Co-Lead Counsel in the Risperdal® and Invega® Product Liability Cases, JCCP 4775;
• Co-Lead Counsel in Dodge v. PHH Corporation, et al., 8:15-cv-01973;
• Co-Lead Counsel for In Re Experian Data Breach Litigation (15-cv-01592);
• Class Counsel in In re 21^st Century Oncology Customer Data Security Data Breach Litigation, MDL 2737;
• Co-Lead Counsel in the St. Joseph Health System Medical Information Cases, JCCP 4716;
• Lead Settlement Class Counsel in Blue Cross of California Website Security Cases, JCCP 4647;
• Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee in the In re Biomet M2a Magnum Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation, MDL 2391;
• Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in In Re: Snowflake, Inc., Data Security Breach Litigation, MDL 3126;
• Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in the In re Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists Products Liability Litigation, MDL 3094;
• Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in the In re Actos Product Liability Cases, JCCP 4696;
• Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in In re Fosamax/Alendronate Sodium Drug Cases, JCCP 4644;
• Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee for the Contaminated Heparin Litigation, MDL 1953;
• Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in Marriott International; Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, MDL 2879; and
• Class Counsel in Flores v Don Roberto Jewelers, Inc., 30-2021-01212035-CU-NP-CXC.

Background

Before working at Robinson Calcagnie‚ Inc., Mr. Robinson was a civil litigator at a defense law firm. Before that‚ Mr. Robinson served as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office under the Hon. Robert M. Morgenthau. As a New York County prosecutor, Mr. Robinson conducted numerous criminal trials, investigations and grand jury proceedings. 

Education

Williams College, B.A.

Loyola School of Law, J.D.

Professional Activities

Admitted to Practice‚ California‚ New York‚ Pennsylvania

Member‚ Association of Business Trial Lawyers; American Association for Justice; Consumer Attorneys of California; Federal Bar Association; Orange County Bar Association; Orange County Celtic Bar Association; Orange County Trial Lawyers Association; Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Litigation Section Executive Committee

Past President, Project Youth Orange County Bar Foundation (2018); Orange County Bar Association (2022);  Orange County Bar Association Charitable Fund (2023)

Parliamentarian, Consumer Attorneys of California (2024)

Board Member‚ Federal Bar Association of Orange County; Project Youth OCBF; Loyola Law School, Consumer Attorneys of California, National Trial Lawyers’ MTTLA