Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Daniel J. Gunsett serves as Managing Partner of the firm’s Columbus office. His experience includes corporate counseling and environmental, class action and real estate litigation.

He serves as general counsel for two electric cooperatives (1985 to present and 2009 to present) and general counsel for an integrated energy cooperative (2001 to present). For a number of years preceding a consolidation of airports, he served as general counsel for a port authority which operated a major airport facility in Columbus, Ohio, and developed major real estate resources for the airport. Mr. Gunsett has been a member of the Board of Directors of Greif, Inc. (NYSE-GEF) since 1996 and served on several Board committees. He also headed the firmwide Energy and Environmental Practice Team at Baker Hostetler for many years.

Mr. Gunsett served as chief outside counsel for a multinational oil company in responding to a major chemical plant explosion in 1994; this work involved intensive emergency response, class action toxic tort litigation, significant environmental issues, wrongful death claims and OSHA investigations. He also served as class action defense counsel for another significant chemical plant explosion involving a major oil company.

Mr. Gunsett's professional activities include membership in the Electrical Cooperative Bar Association; the American Bar Association Section of Natural Resources, Energy, and Environmental Law; the Ohio State Bar Association Environmental Law Committee and the Columbus Bar Association Environmental and Real Estate Committees. He has been a speaker on Environmental Risks in Real Estate Transactions and was a contributing author for an environmental risks pamphlet for the Ohio Association of Realtors.

Areas of Practice

• Business
• Business: Project Development & Finance
• Litigation: Class Action Defense
• Litigation: Commercial
• Litigation: Energy & Environmental
• Energy

Bar Admissions

• Ohio, 1974
• U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit, 1998
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Ohio, 1979
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Ohio, 1975

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Columbus Bar Association (Member, Real Estate Committee & Environmental Committee)
• Electrical Cooperative Bar Association (Member)
• American Bar Association Section of Natural Resources, Energy, and Environmental Law (Member)
• Ohio State Bar Association Environmental Law Committee (Member)
• Columbus Bar Association Environmental and Real Estate Committees (Member)

Honors and Awards

• Chambers USA Names 37 to "Leading Business Lawyers" List
• 2008 "Super Lawyers" Announced
• 2007 Super Lawyers Announced
• Chambers USA Names 32 to "Leading Business Lawyers" List

Education

• University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1974
  J.D.
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1971
  B.S.E.

Address

Capitol Square
Suite 2100
65 East State Street
Columbus, OH 43215-4260

Phones

(614) 462-2642

Faxes

(614) 462-2616

Emails

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Websites

http://www.bakerlaw.com