Dana Baiocco
Partner
Pittsburgh
Tel: 1.412.394.7229
Fax: 1.412.394.7959
Email:
dbaiocco@jonesday.com
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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 counts 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 top 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).
Admitted
Pennsylvania and U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third and Ninth Circuits
Education
Duquesne University (J.D. 1997, cum laude; Justice Louis Mandarino Honor Society for Achievement in Trial and Appellate Advocacy; Order of Barristers); Ohio University (B.S. in Journalism 1988)
Clerkship
Law Clerk to Judge Gustave Diamond, U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania (1996-1998)