William Anthony Daniels

William A. Daniels is a trial lawyer and shareholder with the law firm of BILL DANIELS | LAW OFFICES, APC, in Encino, California.

In the class action arena, he has served as a member of the litigation team in class actions resulting in multiple nine-figure recoveries, including Guttierez v. State Farm and Bednar v. Allstate.

In 2003 he obtained a $20.5 million verdict against Max Factor heir Andrew Luster in a high profile sexual battery case, including a $10 million punitive award. In 2008 he was lead trial counsel in Decena v. Pacific Specialty Ins. Co., which resulted in a $1.2 million verdict in an insurance bad faith dispute, including $600,000 in punitive damages. In 2007 he was co-trial counsel in Zevada Enterprises v. Sasson, which resulted in a $3.5 million verdict in a commercial lease contest.

As counsel in insurance matters he has obtained multiple seven and eight figure recoveries for a variety of clients including Northridge Earthquake victims, physicians and small businesses. He has successfully prosecuted matters for individuals suffering serious personal injuries such as brain injury, spinal cord injury and wrongful death, including drug product liability, automobile and dependant adult abuse. He represents business owners in contract disputes including intellectual property and real estate matters.  He was co-counsel on the first California appellate decision to find a right of privacy in a public place, Shulman v. Group W, Inc (1998) 18 200.

A graduate of Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, Bill Daniels is a former member of the Consumer Attorney Association of Los Angeles Board of Governors and a founding member of the Civil Justice Program and the Advanced Trial Studies program at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. He regularly lectures before various professional groups on class action, personal injury, insurance bad faith and legal ethics.

He publishes extensively on legal topics and is a co-author of Movie Money: Understanding Hollywood’s (Creative) Accounting Practices (Sillman-James Press, 2d Ed. 2006) and a contributing author to California Civil Discovery Practice, 4th Edition (CEB). In 2007, 2008 and 2009 he was voted southern California “Super Lawyer” by Los Angeles Magazine.  He is a monthly columnist for the consumer attorney Advocate Magazine.