Daniel F. Johnson
- Phone: (206) 652-8660
- Fax: (206) 652-8290
- Email:
Practice Areas
- Employment
- Civil Rights
- Consumer Protection
- Class Actions
- Appeals
Practice Description
Daniel Johnson represents employees, consumers, and businesses in employment, consumer protection and civil rights cases. He has litigated many federal and state employment discrimination cases, wage and hour disputes, and contract and tort cases, as well as sexual assault, wrongful death, and public accommodations cases. He recently won a $4.4 million verdict for his client against Goodyear Tire Co. for unlawful retaliation.
Mr. Johnson has also handled many state and federal appeals, including:
- Lowden v. T-Mobile USA, Inc., 512 F.3d 1213 (9th Cir. 2008) (affirming consumers’ right to sue as a class rather than submit to cell phone company’s requirement to make claims individually) [view opinion]
- In re Hanford Nuclear Reservation, 497 F.3d 1005 (9th Cir. 2007) (reviewing trials in cases brought by “downwinders” exposed to radiation discharged by nuclear weapons facility) [view opinion]
- In re: NOS Communications, 495 F.3d 1052 (9th Cir. 2007) (permitting claims by small business consumers alleging fraudulent telemarketing of long distance phone service) [view opinion]
- Schnall v. AT&T Wireless Servs. Inc., 139 Wn.App.280 (2007), review granted, —Wn.2d—(April 29, 2008) (ordering class certified for consumers of wireless phone company) [view opinion]
- Weston v. Emerald City Pizza, L.L.C., 137 Wn. App. 164 (2007) (reversing class certification on restaurant manager’s claim for overtime pay)
- Pakootas v. Teck Cominco Metals, 452 F.3d 1066 (9th Cir. 2006) (sustaining environmental cleanup claims by tribal members against Canadian polluter) [view opinion]
- McClarty v. Totem Electric, 157 Wn.2d 214 (2006) (defining “disabled” under Washington Law Against Discrimination), superceded by statute, RCW 49.60.040(25)
Professional Honors and Affiliations
- Law clerk to U.S. District Judges Robert S. Lasnik and Carolyn R. Dimmick, 1997-99;
- Named Rising Star by Law & Politics Magazine, 2003-2008
- Member: Washington and National Employment Lawyer Associations
- Pro bono award, Federal Bar Association Civil Rights Clinic
Publications
- “CERCLA and Transboundary Contamination in the Columbia River,” 21 Natural Resources & Environment, 8 (2006)
- “Putting the Cart Before the Horse: Parent Involvement in the Improving America’s Schools Act,” 85 Cal. L. Rev. 1757 (1997)
Education
- J.D., Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, 1997
- B.A., Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, 1990