Overview
A skilled and versatile litigation lawyer, Tim Danninger resolves high-stakes and complex cases for companies in federal and state courts in Florida and throughout the United States. He leads large teams and, at times, manages thousands of cases, claimants and claims for clients, taking on mass tort, class action and product liability cases in multidistrict litigation and state-level individual and consolidated proceedings.
Tim has a broad breadth of experience, having handled a wide variety of cases involving everything from complex contract disputes to product litigation on behalf of the leading e-cigarette manufacturer, Juul Labs. His experience spans many other areas, including real estate and trust litigation.
With a degree in biology, Tim can conceptualize the complex sciences that underlie his cases. He works closely with medical professionals, including toxicologists, pulmonologists, neurologists, and other specialists, as well as financial and risk factors experts to build the strongest case possible. Tim is relentlessly dedicated to absorbing the details of every case—pursuing information, planning strategy and applying extraordinary effort and focus. He finds that this attention to detail often gives him a crucial edge. Tim's goal is to chart the best path forward for each client, delivering clear, compelling arguments grounded in the facts and tailored to his clients' risk profiles, business goals and long-term objectives.
In addition to his litigation practice, Tim regularly counsels clients on dispute avoidance and risk management. Drawing on his extensive litigation and courtroom experience, he advises clients on how best to anticipate, avoid and address potential legal issues before they escalate into litigation.
Beyond the firm, from 2020 through 2025, Tim served on The Florida Board of Bar Examiners and as its elected board chair from 2024-2025. The Florida Board of Bar Examiners is responsible for all attorney character and fitness and bar admissions matters in Florida.
Experience
- Served as lead counsel to vapor product manufacturer in product defect, personal injury, wrongful death and economic loss matters in multidistrict litigation, class action and individual matters.
- Defended a former zinc smelting operation against class toxic tort and property remediation claims arising out of alleged exposure to historic smelting byproducts arsenic, cadmium, and lead.
- Achieved favorable settlement of product defect claims made against a rental company of personal watercraft vehicles by forcing indemnification under state product liability tender law.
- Served on the litigation team representing a seat belt manufacturer on wrongful death and personal injury product defect claims associated with vehicle rollover cases.
- Served as lead trial counsel for plaintiff, Continental Financial Services, LLC, in securing a $5.8 million jury verdict regarding a contract dispute with Comcast. At issue was a decades-long relationship with Comcast or its predecessor entities involving the client’s management of equipment return and payment facilities. The jury found that Comcast’s termination of the agreement was improper and awarded our client the full amount of damages sought.
- Served as lead trial counsel in a contract dispute that resulted in a full damages award, including attorneys’ fees.
- Served as trial counsel to the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor of a 790-MW coal-fired power plant in bringing and defending claims against its primary subcontractor, as well as a secondary subcontractor, in arbitration lasting more than 70 days with $1 billion at issue. Prosecuted and defended claims of breach of contract and other contract-related claims of contractors and subcontractors.
- Served as arbitration counsel to a client involved in a dispute over the sale of a portion of a South American bank. The matter involved Brazilian, Chilean and Colombian banking entities and resulted in an award in the hundreds of millions of dollars for our client plus attorneys’ fees.
- Served as trial counsel to a former NYSE company in an adversary action brought by its distributor of LCD and LCD-related products. The dispute involved the claimant’s breach of an exclusive distribution agreement and the client’s offset related to it. Prevailed at trial, including recovering attorneys’ fees for the client.
- Represented a professional sports franchise team in its bankruptcy and related contested sale process and attempted relocation. Ultimately forced the league to purchase the team.
Honors
- AV Preeminent rating as independently determined by Martindale-Hubbell
- The Best Lawyers in America®
- Commercial Litigation, 2022-26
- Insolvency and Reorganization Law, 2024-26
- Florida Trend, “Legal Elite,” Commercial Litigation, 2019-20, 2022
- Florida Super Lawyers, 2022-25
News & Insights
Publications
Involvement
Professional Associations & Memberships
- Florida Board of Bar Examiners
- Chair, November 2024-present
- Vice Chair, November 2023-October 2024
- Member, November 2020-October 2023
- Federal Bar Association, Jacksonville Chapter
- President, 2020-21
- President-Elect, 2019-20
- Vice President – Membership, 2018-19
- Vice President – Programs, 2017-18
- Secretary, 2016-17
- Treasurer, 2015-16
- Florida Bar Grievance Committee 4B, past Chair
Practices
Education
- Arizona State University, J.D., magna cum laude, 2004, Order of the Coif
- The Master’s College, B.S., cum laude, 2000
Admissions
- Florida, 2012
- Arizona, 2004
- United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 2005, Eleventh Circuit, 2012
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida, 2012
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida, 2012
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida, 2012
- U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, 2005
- U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois, 2025
