Dan Slaughter practices in the area of commercial litigation. Before joining Stein & Lubin in 2008, Mr. Slaughter practiced for 18 years at Heller Ehrman LLP, in Los Angeles and San Francisco, where he represented clients in a broad range of complex commercial disputes. Beginning in 1996, he developed a specialty in class action litigation, defending product liability and consumer disclosure matters for clients in the computer products, insurance, automobile finance and rental, banking and credit, retail services, telecommunications, food supplements, building supply and hospitality industries. Mr. Slaughter is a recognized expert in California's Unfair Competition Law, Bus. & Prof. Code §17200; he authored the section on that law for the ABA's Consumer Protection Law Development treatise and has published several articles on the subject. Mr. Slaughter's experience also includes litigation in the areas of eminent domain, antitrust, hotel management disputes, financial privacy, securities, corporate governance and accountants' liability. Mr. Slaughter was previously a commercial litigation association at Irell & Manella in Los Angeles. Mr. Slaughter graduated from Cornell University in 1983 with a B.A. in the dual majors of History and Russian Studies. He earned his J.D. from UCLA School of Law in 1988.