Dan Woska

CURRICULUM VITAE OF A. DANIEL WOSKA
(Updated December 1, 2008)

A. Daniel Woska was born in Dallas, Texas, November 1, 1952. He attended public schools in Tulsa, Oklahoma City, and Dallas, Texas, where he graduated from Hillcrest High School in 1970. Mr. Woska attended the University of Oklahoma from 1970-1974 where, as a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity, he served as pledge class president, pledge trainer, vice-president and president before being honored as one of the University of Oklahoma’s Top Ten Greek Men in 1974. While attending OU, Mr. Woska received a scholarship through the History Department, to attend summer school in Oxford, England, in 1973. He graduated with a B.A. in History in 1974 and worked on his Masters Degree in the fall of 1974.

In 1975 Mr. Woska began law school at Oklahoma City University, graduating in two years even though he worked those same two years. While in law school, Mr. Woska held student offices, served on the Dean’s Search Committee, and was a licensed legal intern for John W. Mee, Jr. and Patrick M. Mee. After passing the Bar in 1978, Mr. Woska worked as an associate for Mee, Bush, Klaus, Mee & Larimore, P.C. and then for Bright & Nichols, P.C., until 1985 when he formed his own firm, Naifeh & Woska, P.C. In 1993, Mr. Woska established a new firm known as Woska Helms Dowd Underwood & Hasbrook, P.C. In 1997, Mr. Woska decided to go “of counsel” to the firm, and since then, has maintained independent offices in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Houston, Texas litigating Plaintiff cases in state and federal courts across the country. Mr. Woska’s practice today is Plaintiff contingency work involving cases in mass actions, class actions, arbitration and individual claims in all 50 sates. The areas of substantive law handled by Mr. Woska include securities, toxic torts, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, products liability, fiduciary duties, professional malpractice, patents, trademarks, tradenames, technology, taxation, constitutional law, business disputes, and contractual matters.

Throughout his career, Mr. Woska freely served on numerous county, state, and national bar association committees. From 1989-1993 he served as legal counsel to the Oklahoma County Bar Association and was elected to its Board of Directors in 1990. He is currently a member of the AAJ, the Oklahoma Association for Justice, the Christian Legal Society, and the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (“PIABA”).

In 1996, Mr. Woska was asked to serve as Chairman of the ABA General Practice ADR Section, and was also elected to serve a one-year term on the Alternative Dispute Resolution Council of the ABA. Mr. Woska continued to serve six terms as Chairman of the ABA/GP/ADR Committee. Mr. Woska has just completed serving a 2 year term as Chairman for the Oklahoma Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee for 2003-2004. Mr. Woska has served as Co-Chair of the Financial Securities Analyst Litigation Group (“FSALG”) of the American Association for Justice from 2004 to the present, and also belongs to the Business Torts Section. In addition, Mr. Woska has been asked to make presentations involving securities issues for the AAJ in Hawaii, Boston and Chicago.

Mr. Woska has frequently lectured and written on topics involving arbitration and civil procedure for a variety of organizations including Oklahoma City University, CCFL, OBA, OCBA and Lorman Publications. Mr. Woska also taught the civil procedure portion of the Oklahoma Bar Review course for several years.
Mr. Woska has litigated and arbitrated over 1,000 cases in his 31 years of practice. He has presented oral arguments several times before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Woska has been involved in numerous published opinions at both a state and federal level. A list of reported decisions is set out below. Mr. Woska has also served as a temporary appellate court judge for the State of Oklahoma. Mr. Woska currently serves on the panel of mediators for Oklahoma’s 7th Judicial District and the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. He also serves on the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma’s panel of Early Neutral Evaluators. Mr. Woska has also served as mediator in hundreds of cases.

Mr. Woska is admitted to practice before numerous federal courts in multiple states, as well as several U.S. Courts of Appeal, the U.S. Tax Court and the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Woska has been involved in many MDL actions. If you wish to reach Mr. Woska, you can contact his offices at 3037 N.W. 63rd Street, Suite 251, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73116, 1-405-562-7771 or by e-mail at awoska@woskalawfirm.com.Website: www.woskalawfirm.com.

Reported Cases: Musson v. Rice, 739 P.2d 1004 (Okla. 1987); Stern v. Great Plains Federal Savings & Loan, 778 P.2d 933 (Okla. 1989); Oklahoma Ass’n for Equitable Taxation v. City of Oklahoma City, 901 P.2d 800 (Okla. 1995); Oklahoma City Associates v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 923 F.2d 791 (10th Cir. 1991); Braun v. Annesley, et al., 936 F.2d 1105 (Okla. 1991); James C. Buzzard, et al., v. Farmers Insurance Company, et al., 824 P.2d 1105 (Okla. 1991); Oklahoma Plaza Investors, Ltd. v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.; 124 B.R. 108 (N.D. Okla. 1991); Vernon Kyle Langley v. The District Court of Sequoyah County, et al., 846 P.2d 376 (Okla. 1993); Great Plains, et al. v. Dabney, et al., 846 P.2d 1088 (Okla. 1993); Valentino v. Catherine Smith, Fed. Sec. L. Rep. p. 97,256 (W.D. Okla. 1992); Carolyn Smith v. Terry L. Smith, 847 P.2d 827 (Okla. App. 1993); William E. Neighbors v. Lynn Hickey Dodge, Inc., No. 85,676 (Okl. Ct. of App., August 6, 1996); Swanson v. Guthrie Independent School District, 942 F.Supp. 511 (W.D. Okl. 1996); Bank IV Oklahoma, N.A. v. Southwestern Bank & Trust Company, 1997 OK 31 (March 1997) Supreme Court (March 1, 1997); Swanson v. Guthrie Indep. School Dist., 135 F.3d 694 (10th Cir. 1998) and United Associates, Inc. v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 133 F.3d 1296 (10th Cir. 1997); Oklahoma Plaza Investors v. Walmart Stores, Inc., 153 P.3d 728 (10th Cir. 1998).