Dan Ring

Daniel Ring is co-leader of the Chicago Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice and co-leader of the Product Liability & Mass Torts practice for Mayer Brown. He is a litigator, trial lawyer and corporate advisor whose wide-ranging practice is focused on products liability, toxic tort, and complex commercial litigation. Dan has extensive experience in all phases of litigation involving product liability, mass and toxic torts, and complex commercial disputes in state, federal and multi-district proceedings. Dan has been repeatedly recognized in Chambers, Benchmark Litigation and LMG Life Sciences.

Dan’s recent experience includes representation of a major multinational company in its litigation in multiple jurisdictions (including the AFFF MDL 2873) involving the manufacture and sale of certain PFAS chemicals and product and the Big Ten Conference in the NCAA Student-Athlete Concussion Litigation (MDL 2492). Dan has also represented Medtronic Sofamor Danek USA, Inc. in connection with product liability suits in multiple federal and state courts involving the Infuse® spinal fusion device and claimed off-label promotion of the device. Dan previously served as lead counsel for Medtronic, Inc. in In re: Medtronic, Inc. Sprint Fidelis Lead Product Liability Litigation (MDL 1905), coordinating the national defense of claims, including putative class actions, for personal injury and economic damages in the federal multidistrict litigation and in state courts.

Dan has also represented another major medical device manufacturer as co-lead counsel in defense of wide-ranging product liability, securities, and derivative claims involving a PMA cardiac defibrillator lead device. Dan’s work also includes counseling and litigation involving cybersecurity of medical devices. Dan’s experience also includes work as part of the firm’s defense of product liability claims arising out of alleged uses of metoclopramide.

Dan also leads Mayer Brown’s national defense teams for Amchem Products, Inc. (now known as Bayer CropScience, Inc), in nationwide asbestos litigation. In that work, Dan has taken lead responsibility for the development and implementation of national defense strategy. In 2002, Dan represented Amchem in the liability phase of a West Virginia mass trial involving thousands of claims. He successfully obtained a directed verdict on behalf of Amchem and defended that ruling post-trial. Dan is regularly designated lead trial counsel for Amchem in cases throughout the country. In addition to his asbestos defense work, he has advised multiple clients in connection with various potential toxic tort and chemical exposure claims and risks.

Dan joined Mayer Brown in 1995. Previously (1993-1995), he served as Law Clerk to The Honorable George Marovich, US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.