Dan . Westman
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Daniel P. Westman is an experienced trial lawyer who has obtained favorable rulings for clients in jury trials, preliminary injunction hearings, arbitrations, and mediations. Mr. Westman’s practice focuses on litigating employee mobility, trade secret, non-competition, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, whistleblower, and retaliatory discharge cases. Mr. Westman is senior editor of the treatise Trade Secrets (Law Journal Press) by James Pooley, and is Vice Chair of the Trade Secrets Committee of the American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association. He also is the lead author of the book Whistleblowing: The Law of Retaliatory Discharge, Second Edition (BNA Books, 2004 & Supp. 2009). He has twice provided testimony to Congressional committees on proposed federal whistleblower legislation, and serves as the Management Co-Chair, Sarbanes-Oxley subcommittee of the Fair Labor Standards Legislation Committee, Labor and Employment Law Section, American Bar Association.
Mr. Westman is Co-Chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Employment and Labor Group (2007 - present), and is listed in the Best Lawyers in America (Labor and Employment Law, 2006 - 2009). Mr. Westman received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University (A.B., 1978), with distinction, and his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School (J.D., 1981). He served as a law clerk to the Hon. Barbara B. Crabb, U.S. District Judge, Western District of Wisconsin (1981 - 1982). He practiced in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1982 to 1999, and has been based in the Mid-Atlantic since 1999. He is admitted to practic practice before the highest courts in California, the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.
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