Built for the courtroom.
Trusted for the verdict.
Dan Cho is a trial attorney who prepares every case for the courtroom. He focuses on complex civil disputes, liability defense, and insurance litigation across state and federal courts.
Abandoning the traditional bloated litigation model, he combines rigorous trial preparation from day one with strategic planning and streamlined efficiency to protect his clients' resources, whether defending high exposure claims, advising clients before a dispute arises, or enforcing corporate rights.
From the lab
to the courtroom.
Before law school, Dan worked in biotechnology research on peptide chemistry and Alzheimer's disease. A summons for jury duty changed the direction of his career: sitting through a trial led him to leave the lab, and he has spent his career in the courtroom ever since.
McGeorge School of Law
San Diego
Central District of California
Eastern District of California
Trademark prosecution and contested proceedings before the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. Admitted pro hac vice outside California, and has briefed appellate matters that resulted in the reversal of trial court rulings.
Areas of representation
The firm concentrates on civil disputes that carry serious exposure, for the companies and carriers involved, and for the individuals whose futures are at stake. Readiness and precision define the outcome, in the courtroom and at the table.
Business & Commercial Litigation
Contract disputes, partnership dissolutions, fraud claims, unfair competition, and complex commercial conflicts managed with precision and a strategy built for trial from the outset.
Catastrophic Injury Litigation
Serious injury and wrongful death disputes involving substantial financial exposure and significant damages, defending individual parties and insureds as well as corporate entities through the most consequential cases they will ever face.
Insurance & Liability Defense
Defense of insureds and their carriers in high exposure liability claims. Preparation begins on day one and strengthens every stage of the case, from early evaluation through verdict. The result is defense built on courtroom judgment, not routine claims handling.
Corporate Transactional & Advisory
Entity formation and governance, commercial agreements, vendor and service contracts, partnership and ownership arrangements, and trademark matters, drafted and negotiated by a lawyer who knows what they could mean at trial.
The strongest case is
the one never filed.
Most business advice is written by lawyers who have never watched a jury decide. Having tried cases to verdict, Dan knows where exposure begins, long before a dispute is ever filed. That hindsight becomes foresight, the same trial judgment that wins cases, used earlier to keep clients out of them.
Agreements and governance drafted with the terms that actually get litigated in mind, closing exposure before it opens.
Guidance on recording decisions so they hold up cleanly if they are ever questioned or challenged.
Reading emerging friction the way an adversary would, and resolving it before it hardens into a filed case.
Every reasonable path to resolution is pursued first. When none remains, the firm tries the case.
Representative jury trials
Trial experience is not a talking point at Cho Trial Law. It is a record. Dan represents clients in civil jury trials throughout California; selected results are detailed below.
Obtained judgment for the defense in an admitted liability case where plaintiff claimed traumatic brain injury, underwent cervical spine surgery, and sought seven-figure damages. The jury found causation was not proven, and plaintiff recovered nothing.
Complete defense verdict for a commercial transportation company and its driver in a disputed truck versus auto rear-end case involving surgical claims, substantial medical specials, and contested liability. The jury found the commercial driver was not negligent.
Defense verdict in a two plaintiff intersection collision involving claims of traumatic brain injury, cervical fusion, hip surgery, spinal cord stimulator treatment, and extensive lien based medical specials. The jury found no negligence.
Defended a homeowner in a real property trial involving prescriptive easement, trespass, tree root and property damage, and nuisance claims. The jury rejected the plaintiff's theories, resulting in judgment for the defense.
Defense verdict in a parking garage pedestrian foot-injury case involving alleged nerve damage and ongoing pain. The jury found no negligence.
Defense judgment in a rear-end personal injury vehicle accident case after the jury found the defendant's negligence was not a substantial factor in causing plaintiff's claimed harm.
Awarded in a claimed traumatic brain injury and cervical surgery rear-end case where plaintiff sought a seven-figure recovery.
Multi-vehicle freeway rear-end collision with multimillion dollar claimed damages; resolved under a $25,000 high-low outcome.
Admitted rear-end collision involving multimillion dollar claimed damages and multiple back and knee surgeries.
Admitted liability pedestrian case involving claimed ongoing orthopedic injuries, lumbar epidural and knee injections, and alleged future knee surgery.
Admitted liability head-on collision involving multi-million-dollar claimed damages, where plaintiff claimed accident-related hearing loss and need for cochlear implant surgery.
Admitted freeway rear-end collision involving nearly seven figures in medical specials and multimillion dollar claimed damages.
Represented a plaintiff injured by an improperly discarded medical sharp in violation of medical waste safety standards. The jury awarded $200,000 in noneconomic damages and $967,000 in punitive damages, for a total verdict of $1,167,000.
FEB 2020Motorcycle versus auto injury trial involving shoulder surgery; the jury assigned 49% fault to the plaintiff, substantially reducing the recoverable award.
OCT 2017Disputed left turn and failure to yield intersection collision with no independent witnesses and significant claimed orthopedic injuries, including fractures and a future knee-replacement claim.
The above reflects selected jury trials and results and does not include every matter tried or resolved during trial. Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome; every case depends on its own facts and circumstances.
Contact the firm
For matter inquiries or direct communication, the firm can be reached through the channels below.
Woodland Hills, CA 91367
This website is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Communication with the firm does not create an attorney-client relationship.