DANIEL (DAN) PETROCELLI
Partner; Chair, Trial Practice; Firm Vice Chair
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
When corporate titans, industry leaders, and entertainment A-listers need a litigation champion they can trust to tackle their headline-making legal matters, they call Daniel Petrocelli. Among the nation’s most in-demand lawyers, Petrocelli is widely recognized as the “go-to” litigator, trial lawyer, and trusted counselor sought out by major corporations, Hollywood studios, artists, athletes and executives in a stunning array of cases and disputes.
Among Petrocelli’s many recent accomplishments, he successfully defended DC Comics and Warner Bros. Discovery in a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by Mark Warren Peary, nephew of the late Superman co-creator Joseph Shuster. Ahead of the film’s 2025 release, the judge dismissed the suit.
