Dan Terzian
Los Angeles • 213.410.2617 • dan.terzian@warrenterzian.com
Dan Terzian represents consumers in class actions and individual cases against large corporations over false advertising, deceptive pricing, unlawful fees, and predatory lending. He has spent literally hundreds of hours analyzing arbitration clauses and the ever-changing law governing them.
Before dedicating his singular intellectual focus to representing the people against the powerful, Dan wrote the hornbook on the Fifth Amendment and encryption, along with many other things on the intersection of technology and the law. His publications span the Los Angeles Times and the Northwestern University Law Review, among others. And his work has been cited or quoted by the Fourth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals, the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals, the Court of Appeals of Indiana, the Congressional Research Service, American Banker, MIT Technology Review, The Guardian,and Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (again, among others).
In his spare time outside of law and parenting, Dan roots for Ferrari and Carlos Sainz in F1.
Education
UCLA School of Law, J.D.
Order of the Coif
Managing Editor, UCLA Law Review
California Polytechnic State University, B.S.
Past
Associations
Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht LLP | Partner; Of Counsel; Associate
Duane Morris LLP | Associate
United States District Court
for the District of the Northern Mariana Islands | Law Clerk
Peking University School of Transnational Law | C.V. Starr Lecturer
“You are a damn good lawyer! I’m glad you
are on my team.”
* Three-time MLB All-Star.
Select
Matters
Defeated demurrer brought by a high-interest lender and its counsel McGuireWoods, ultimately obtaining a class action settlement on behalf of California borrowers.
Defeated a demurrer brought by one of the country’s largest housing companies, ultimately obtaining a class action settlement on behalf of certain current and former residents of one of its properties.
Won an appeal that overruled the trial court and granted our anti-SLAPP motion to strike the California Uniform Trade Secrets Act claim (as well as claims for violation of Penal Code § 496, conversion, and breach of fiduciary duty). The Department of Labor lauded this decision as “a matter of continuing public interest” and praised it as groundbreaking.
Defeated eight-figure complaint at trial, while also prevailing on seven-figure counterclaims.
Select Publications
Cannabis Registration Requirements May Be Unenforceable, Recorder (2018)
Taking Stock of New Employees and Their Computer Crime Baggage, Recorder (2018)
Defamation Claims and Fake News Bullsh*t, Daily Journal (2017)
Why California Law Shouldn’t Stop IMDb from Posting Actor Ages, Law360 (2016)
The Micro-Hornbook on the Fifth Amendment and Encryption, 104 Georgetown Law Journal Online 168 (2016)
The United States v. iPhone User, Daily Journal (2016)
Fighting Trolls with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Corporate Counsel (2016)
Forced Decryption as a Foregone Conclusion, 6 California Law Review Circuit 27 (2015)
Forced Decryption as Equilibrium—Why It’s Constitutional and How Riley Matters, 109 Northwestern University Law Review 1131 (2015)
Playing Defense Against Restitution Orders, American Banker (2014)
The Fifth Amendment, Encryption, and the Forgotten State Interest, 61 UCLA Law Review Discourse 298 (2014)
The Right to Bear (Robotic) Arms, 117 Penn State Law Review 755 (2013)
Saving Libraries but not Librarians, Los Angeles Times (2011)
Personal Immunity and President Omar Al Bashir: An Analysis Under Customary International Law and Security Council Resolution 1593, 16 UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs 279 (2011)