Daniel E. Rohner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP focuses on complex commercial disputes involving privacy, cybersecurity, trade secrets, and unfair competition. With extensive first-chair trial experience, Rohner represents national and regional businesses in high-stakes litigation.
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Dan Rohner is a trial lawyer that concentrates his business litigation practice on complex commercial disputes, particularly in the areas of privacy and cyber security law, trade secret and unfair competition matters and class action defense. For the past 27 years, Dan has handled a wide variety of business lawsuits in Colorado and throughout the country relating to website privacy, data breaches, theft of trade secrets, unfair competition, real estate/leasing and and construction disputes, securities fraud, business torts and insurance coverage. Dan has significant first-chair trial experience in both federal and state courts, as well as extensive arbitration experience before various private dispute resolution providers including the AAA, JAMS, JAG and FINRA. Dan also has substantial experience in appellate representation, and at the start of his career was a judicial clerk for the chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

Dan begins every engagement with a detailed discussion of client risks, opportunities, needs, options and goals. Dan then develops, refines and executes strategic litigation plans with an eye towards reaching a successful, timely and cost-effective resolution of the dispute. Dan’s ultimate goal is to become and remain a trusted advisor to each of his clients; providing first-rate legal knowledge and service at an exceptional value.

Along with his litigation practice, Dan counsels and represents clients in various privacy, employment, real estate and transactional matters. On behalf of employers, Dan has drafted employment agreements, independent contractor agreements, nondisclosure and noncompete agreements, employee handbooks and various HR policies and procedures. Dan also has experience drafting and reviewing licensing agreements, dealer and vendor relationship agreements, and many other agreements defining contractual relationships in various industries.

Memberships
  • The Colorado Bar
  • Denver Bar Association
Education
    • J.D., University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, 1996
      • Order of St. Ives
      • Denver Law Review, General Editor
      • Moot Court Trial Team
    • B.A., Hamilton College, 1990

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Key clients

  • CPI Security Systems, Inc.
  • Robert Bosch LLC

Work highlights

Served as lead trial counsel for CPI Security Systems in a high-profile unfair competition and trademark lawsuit against Vivint Smart Home in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Nort Carolina.