About Danny Newman

Danny Newman is a litigator and trial lawyer with over 20 years of experience in personal injury, medical malpractice, and wrongful death matters. He previously served as managing shareholder of a satellite office for a regional insurance defense firm and was a leader in that firm's trucking litigation practice group and co-chair of its long-term care litigation practice group. After two decades defending cases for corporations and insurers, he now advocates for victims of negligence.

Danny represents clients who are seriously injured, or families of victims killed, because of medical malpractice, nursing home neglect, industrial accidents, defective products, and serious auto/motorcycle/truck crashes. One hundred percent of his practice is devoted to serious personal injury and wrongful death litigation. He is admitted in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, and holds senior fellowship status with The Litigation Counsel of America and membership in the American Board of Trial Advocates.

Proven verdicts and settlements at The Donahey Law Firm, LLC

These results are credited to The Donahey Law Firm, LLC. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

The Donahey Law Firm served as Ohio counsel for a mother whose seven-year-old daughter died after alleged medical negligence by a physician and staff at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, and secured an appellate ruling preserving the family's choice of nationally prominent trial co-counsel over the hospital's objection.

Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, Columbus OH (appeal decided by Ohio's Tenth District Court of Appeals) · 2016Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Capital University Law School
J.D., summa cum laude, 2002

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Ohio, admitted 2002
State Bar of Kentucky, admitted 2003
State Bar of Indiana, admitted 2015

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Proven verdicts and settlements from other Columbus firms

Cooper Elliott
Cooper Elliott
$27 million · Franklin County Jury Awards $27 Million in Short North Bartender's Beating Death
The Fitch Law Firm
The Fitch Law Firm
$134 Million Verdict for Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivor Leads Ohio Supreme Court to Strike Damages Cap
Leeseberg Tuttle, L.P.A.
Leeseberg Tuttle, L.P.A.
$44.5 Million for a Boy Left Locked In After a Lab Sat on Urgent Test Results for Six Days

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.