DANIEL J.T. SCIANO is Chairman of the Board, Vice President and senior attorney at the Law Offices of Tinsman, & Sciano, Inc. With over 36 years of legal experience, Dan has handled a wide variety of civil and personal injury litigation matters throughout his legal career. The cases he handles include complex litigation involving truck/tractor motor vehicle wrecks and collisions including company vehicles which most often result in serious injury or death; claims regarding unreasonably dangerous and defective products involving a vast array of commercial and industrial products, and a panoply of claims brought due to catastrophic injury or death in construction and oil field and oil servicing accidents and other premises accident claims; as well as complex medical malpractice claims. He has a national reputation with regard to his representation of victims (most often small children or elderly adults) catastrophically injured or killed as a result of stove tipovers. He is and has been involved as both co-counsel and local counsel regarding complex consumer class action litigation. His current docket (as it has for more than a decade) is national in scope. He works tirelessly in representing his clients to ensure that safety practices are changed and that defective products that cause serious bodily injury or death are withdrawn from the marketplace in an attempt to help ensure similar tragedies don’t happen again. He speaks and presents regularly and has written many papers on a variety of legal topics for the State Bar of Texas as part of continuing legal education of other lawyers. He has also been featured on national and local TV, radio, and in the written media regarding a diverse range of legal topics.

Professional Background: Admitted to bar, 1981-Texas; 1986-Wisconsin; U.S. Supreme Court-1992; U.S. Court of Appeals-5th Circuit-1982; U.S. District Courts for the Western (1984), Southern (1994), Eastern (1995), and Northern (1995) Districts of Texas. Currently admitted pro hac vice in numerous courts and states throughout the United States.

Education: University of Wisconsin (B.S., summa cum laude, 1978); London School of Economics (Summer of 1980); St. Mary’s University School of Law (J.D., with distinction, 1981 – graduated first in his class); Member, John M. Harlen Society; Senior Associate Editor, St. Mary’s Law Journal, 1980-1981.

Memberships: American Bar Association, State Bar of Texas, State Bar of Wisconsin, Texas Trial Lawyers Association (TTLA) (Director); San Antonio Bar Association (SABA); San Antonio Trial Lawyers Association (SATLA) (Director, 1988-92; Past President, 1994-95); American Association for Justice (AAJ). American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) National Representative for San Antonio. Has served or participated in various State Bar of Texas committees or activities and has served most recently on the Administration of Rules of Evidence Committee (AREC) from 2006-2012.

Awards & Honors: Recognized by Thomson Reuters, publishers of Texas Monthly as one of Texas Super Lawyers in Plaintiff Personal Injury: Product Liability category from 2003-2016, and as one of the Top 100 Texas Super Lawyers in 2013. He has also been recognized by Texas Super Lawyers as one of the Top 50 Texas Super Lawyers in the Central & West Texas Region in 2008 and from 2011-2016. Recognized as one of The Best Lawyers in America, Personal Injury Litigation category, 1995-2016 and selected as the San Antonio Lawyer of the Year in Personal Injury Litigation by Best Lawyers in America, for both 2010 and 2012. Also recognized yearly as one of the Top  Personal Injury lawyers in San Antonio - SA Scene magazine.

Certifications: Board Certified – Personal Injury Trial Law – Texas Board of Legal

Specialization since 1987; Board Certified - Civil Trial Law – Texas Board of Legal

Specialization since 1988; and Certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy since 1989.