Daniel T. Nguyen represents clients in all facets of litigation with a focus on complex commercial litigation, intellectual property disputes, and fraud and malpractice allegations. He has experience representing clients in state and federal courts, at trial and appellate levels, and in arbitration. He also has experience handling cross-border litigation, including disputes involving international parties, foreign discovery, and proceedings spanning multiple jurisdictions.
Prior to joining Keker, Van Nest & Peters, Daniel served as a judicial law clerk for Judge James V. Selna of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Daniel earned his J.D. from the University of California, Davis, School of Law, where he served as Editor in Chief of the UC Davis Law Review. While in law school, he served as a judicial extern for Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar of the California Supreme Court and as a law clerk for the Office of the County Counsel of Alameda County. Prior to law school, he worked at a Los Angeles based public affairs firm. Daniel earned his B.A. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
OpenAI Copyright Cases
OpenAI tapped Keker as lead trial counsel in a series of copyright lawsuits that will establish the boundaries of copyright fair use as applied to generative AI. The cases include claims brought by newspapers, authors, and other media outlets alleging that the training of Open AI's large language models infringe their works.
DC Solar Investors v. Law Firm
We defended a prominent law firm and one of its senior partners against legal malpractice and fraud actions in California federal court, Los Angeles Superior Court, and U.S. Bankruptcy Court. The firm had served as tax opinion counsel in connection with a series of tax-sheltered investments in a solar business that turned out to be a Ponzi scheme. After years of litigation, we negotiated a successful settlement between the firm and the solar company investors. We also negotiated a successful settlement between the law firm and the Trustee for the consolidated estates of the company and its subsidiaries.
In re: SKAT Tax Refund Litigation
We represented a former law firm partner in settling a fraud action brought by the government of Denmark in the Southern District of New York. The case involved claims that the lawyer set up pension plans and assisted them in purporting to invest in, and then unwinding, transactions in dividend-paying Danish companies to obtain a half-billion dollars’ worth of tax refunds, thereby defrauding Denmark’s tax authority.