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DOMINIC J. GIANNA
dgianna@midrid.com
Dominic Gianna, chair of our Litigation Section, is one of this country’s foremost teachers of the arts of advocacy, persuasion and trial techniques. He has trained thousands to be better trial lawyers. His meticulous trial preparation and creative approaches to the courtroom are reflected in his success rate before judges and juries nationwide. Dominic Gianna has received many awards as a result of his contributions to the arts of advocacy and has published numerous papers and books. Most recently, he was selected for inclusion on the 2008 Louisiana Super Lawyers list.
Peer Review Rated: AV
- Juris Doctor, Loyola University School of Law in 1974.
Editor-in-Chief of the Loyola Law Review
- Master of Arts, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1971
Organic and Medicinal Chemistry
- Bachelor of Science, Manhattan College, 1968
- Litigation Services, Chair
- Corporate and Insurance Defense
- Industrial Catastrophe
- Employment Litigation
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- American Bar Association
- Louisiana State Bar Association
- New Orleans Bar Association
- Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel
- American Chemical Society
- Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association
- Diplomate of the American Board of Trial Advocates
- Who's Who in the South and Southwest
- District Judge pro tem
- Civil Benchbook Committee for Louisiana Trial Judges
- A Day on Trial: Persuasion Techniques in the Courtroom
- Opening Statements 2d: Winning in the Beginning by Winning the Beginning (Thomson/west, 2004)
- Winning Before Trial: 10 Keys to Winning Depositions, The Professional Education Group, Inc., 2004
- Reel Justice! Power Passion & Persuasion in the Modern Courtroom, The Professional Education Group, Inc., 1996
- Litigation Training for the Next Century, Co-authored with Professor Thomas A. Mauet, Litigation, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2000
Dominic J. Gianna serves as Chair of the firm’s Litigation department. He is an elected Fellow of the International Society of Barristers, the world’s most prestigious organization of trial lawyers. He is recognized by his colleagues not only as one of America’s master advocates, but is renowned as one of this country’s foremost teachers of the arts of advocacy, persuasion and trial techniques and is recipient of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s Keeton award as the most outstanding teacher of advocacy in America.
Mr. Gianna has tried cases throughout the USA for individual clients as well as corporate and insurance interests in a wide variety of fields including toxic tort matters, mass class actions, products liability, commercial cases and employment discrimination matters. His experience on both sides of the courtroom is tempered by his experience as a trial judge ad hoc and as an appointed Special Master in complex matters including mass tort cases and the statewide tobacco litigation.
As a teacher of advocacy, he has trained thousands to be better trial lawyers. Gianna has lectured throughout the world on the arts of advocacy and persuasion. His seminars with Tom Mauet, this generation’s most influential writer in the field of litigation, have been sponsored and produced by bar associations in every state, in Canada and in Puerto Rico.
Dominic Gianna has received numerous awards as a result of his contributions to the arts of advocacy and has published numerous papers and books. Dominic was elected a Fellow of the International Society of Barristers, the world's most prestigious organization of trial lawyers. He is a principal faculty member of the Professional Education Group, Inc., serves as Director of Trial Advocacy of Louisiana State University School of Law and has been an adjunct professor of trial techniques at Tulane University School of Law and Emory University School of Law. Mr. Gianna serves on the National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s National Faculty, is the founder and program director of NITA’s Gulf Coast Trial Advocacy Training Program and NITA’s deposition training program, and is the Regional Director of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. He is also the author of “Winning in the Beginning by Winning the Beginning,” published by West/Thomson Publishing Company in 2004.
Gianna received his B.S. Degree in Chemistry from Manhattan College in New York City, his M.A. in Organic Chemistry from the State University of New York at Buffalo and his law degree from Loyola University School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. He was selected as the Chair of the American Bar Association’s Section of Litigation Annual Meeting in 2001 and served as Program Chair for the ABA’s Section of Litigation’s Annual Meeting in 1992.
Dominic Gianna is a trial lawyer’s trial lawyer. His meticulous trial preparation and his creative approaches to the courtroom are reflected in his success rate before judges and juries nationwide.
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