Daniel J. Dysart

Danny Dysart is a partner in Fishman Haygood’s Litigation Section and an assistant district attorney and felony trial prosecutor in St. Bernard Parish, La. In private practice, he regularly tries cases on behalf of companies and individuals, as well as plaintiffs and defendants, and he has brought matters before federal and state judges and juries, as well as arbitration panels.

Over the past decade, Danny has litigated and tried several high-profile and high-impact cases along the Gulf Coast. His cases involve personal injury, products liability, breach of contract, unfair trade practices, redhibition, Jones Act, RICO, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and the Oil Pollution Act.

Danny has successfully litigated limited issue and bellwether cases in multi-district litigation proceedings, and he has handled the administration of multiple national class action settlements. In addition, Danny gained unique complex litigation experience by serving as co-lead defense counsel in the BP oil spill MDL, the Chinese Drywall MDL, and Hurricane Katrina-related environmental litigation. In these sprawling cases, Danny litigated a wide spectrum of jurisdictional, discovery, and evidentiary issues.

Currently, the firm is lead counsel representing Knauf Gips, an international manufacturer of building products, in an MDL and in state court product liability cases throughout the Gulf South. To date, Danny and the team have litigated and resolved thousands of property damage claims through litigation, or class action settlements, and individual settlements.

Danny is a St. Bernard Bar Association board member, having previously served as both Vice-Chair and Finance Chair. He is a member of the New Orleans Bar Association and the Louisiana District Attorneys Association.

Danny also serves on the board and is the current president of the St. Bernard Autism Awareness Krewe. As part of the Krewe’s mission to identify and assist those dealing with daily struggles associated with autism, Danny has led the Krewe to develop and implement a wide range of programs like the Help Me Home Program, a voluntary program that allows individuals and families to provide first responders critical information about an individual’s intellectual or physical condition in the event of an emergency or call for service.

For his community efforts, Danny was named the St. Bernard Chamber of Commerce 2022 Citizen of the Year.

Danny has also been named to the Benchmark Litigation “40 & Under List – South” since 2023, and he was honored by the LSBA Young Lawyers Division as a 2023 TOP 40 awardee.

Danny graduated magna cum laude from Loyola University New Orleans – College of Law in 2011 where he was named a William L. Crowe Scholar and was a member of the Loyola Law Review and Moot Court.