Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Dana Baiocco is a commercial litigation partner with a primary practice in products liability, mass tort defense litigation, and commercial disputes. She is also experienced in employment litigation, trade secrets, and restrictive covenants. She has acted as counsel before federal and state courts across the U.S. and has represented clients before the Federal Aviation Administration.

Dana, a licensed pilot, represents component part manufacturers in wrongful death and personal injury litigation arising out of general aviation and commercial aircraft crashes worldwide and counsels industry clients on commercial activity related to aviation, including airport-related construction, FAA certifications and investigations, and corporate aviation department practices. Dana currently represents Parker Hannifin Corporation as defense counsel in its aviation component part product litigation. She led the Parker team to victory in Brewer, et al. v. Dodson, et al., and its state court companion case, Vandeventer v. Dodson, two cases arising out of the crash of a general aviation airplane in Oregon.

In Brewer, she successfully orchestrated a strategic choice of law motion, which she argued to both courts sitting jointly. A summary judgment victory followed that was then affirmed after oral argument by the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

She also was a member of the Parker Hannifin trial team that defended the component part manufacturer to verdict in a two-month jury trial involving the crash of a twin-engine aircraft carrying former Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan. In this case, Dana and other Jones Day lawyers defended the company against a large punitive damages claim arising out of that crash.

Dana is currently defending Yamaha in its Rhino product liability litigation nationwide and advises other clients on product liability issues. She is a member of Jones Day's product response team, a multidisciplinary group of Jones Day lawyers prepared to respond in a recall or crisis situation.

Dana is also currently involved in the defense of a class action lawsuit arising out of gender discrimination claims levied against a Fortune 100 company by a high-level employee. She has counseled numerous clients on trade secret, restrictive covenants, and other employment-related litigation.

In addition to these primary practice areas, Dana is the Pittsburgh resident on zoning issues. She has counseled Citibank on zoning issues related to the expansion of its branch locations in Pennsylvania. She has represented land developers and corporations in obtaining requisite approval for zoning and subdivision development and has represented businesses in related contractual disputes. In a similar venue, Dana has counseled Pennsylvania construction clients on bidding for and obtaining state agency contracts and procurements and has directed these clients on compliance requirements and participation levels for women or minority-owned business enterprises (WBE/MBE) and other disadvantaged business enterprises (DBE).

Dana is recognized by various independent publications and legal guides as a leading litigation lawyer. In 2007, she was named by the Legal 500 as one of the leading lawyers in the U.S. in the product liability and mass tort defense category for aerospace/aviation. American Lawyer Media selected her as one of the 35 Pennsylvania lawyers identified as "2005 Lawyers on the Fast Track." In 2005, 2006, and 2007, Philadelphia Magazine and Law & Politics named her as a "Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, Rising Star."

Dana is active in community affairs. She currently serves as a voting member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's House of Delegates. She is the 2006-2007 co-chair of the PBA Commission on Women in the Profession. She is a faculty member of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's continuing legal education program and served a four-year term on the board of directors for Wagner Family Charities. She was recently honored as an Allegheny County Bar Foundation Fellow.

While studying for her law degree, Dana completed two summer law programs at Cambridge University in England, where she received instruction from the late United States Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist (Summer 1995) and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Summer 1994).

Areas of Practice

• Product Liability & Tort Litigation
• Trial Practice
• Class Action Litigation
• Airlines & Aviation
• Privacy & Data Security
• Product Response Team

Representative Cases

• Aubrey v. Lehman Brothers, Inc., et al. (NASD Arbitration/W.D. Pa.)
• Bee v. Parker Hannifin Corp., (LA Cty. Superior Court); In re Air Crash Disaster Near Palembang, Indonesia on December 19, 1997, (W.D. Wash.; N.D. Ohio)
• Bongiorno v. SSB Machinenbaum (W.D. Pa. 2006)
• Brewer et al. v. Dodson Aviation, et al., CA No. CV4-2189Z (United States District Court for the Western District of Washington)
• Carnahan v. Parker Hannifin Corp., (Jackson Cty., Mo. Circuit Court)
• Casey, et al. v. Beech Aircraft Corp., et al, Circuit Court of Clay County, Missouri at Liberty (Case No. CV104-010278CC)
• Helwig, Jr. v. Forgital USA, Inc., EEOC – Pittsburgh (Charge No. 533-2006-00191).
• In re: Swissair Flight 111, (W.D. Pa.)
• Maria Ortiz, et al v. Parker Hannifin Corp., et al., No. C-479-03B (93rd Judicial District, Texas)
• Sandy Bussard, et al. v. Temple Inland, Inc. (W.D. Pa., Kane Cty, Pa. Court of Common Pleas)
• U.S. Airways, Inc. v. Parker Hannifin Corp., (W.D. Pa.)
• Parker Hannifin Vacuum Pump Cases
• West Virginia Litigation

West Practice Categories

Alcoholic Beverages, Apparel, Asbestos, Bankruptcy Litigation, Chemicals & Cosmetics, Class Actions, Complex Litigation, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Claims Court, Federal Trial Practice, Firearms, Food & Agricultural Products, International Trade Litigation, Litigation & Appeals, Machinery & Tools, Medical Products & Devices, Military & Veterans Appeals, Motor Vehicle Defects, Multidistrict Litigation, Patent Litigation, Pharmaceutical Products, Products Liability Law, Recreational Products, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Tax Litigation, Tobacco, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania

Education

• Duquesne University

Published Works

• The Americanization of Aviation Claims, Practice Perspectives: Product Liability & Tort Litigation, 2007
• Runway Safety and Airport Operations: Are You Responsible, The Public Record, 2006
• Learning "Plane" English Can Help Lawyers in Aviation Litigation, Pittsburgh Business Times, 2006
• Implementing the Montreal Accord: Practical Implications of the Aviation Liability Treaty, Airline Business Report White Paper 2004: Charting a Course to Meet Today's Market Challenges, 2004
• The Significance of Other Accidents in Aviation Trials, Aviation Litigation Quarterly, 2004
• Excluding NTSB Final Aircraft Accident Reports and FAA Airworthiness Directives at Trial, Air and Space Lawyer, 2003

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