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Daniel J.T. Sciano

San Antonio

Phone: 210-225-3121

Toll Free: 800-292-9999

Fax: 210-225-6235

Email: E-mail Me

Education

St. Mary's University School of Law, San Antonio, Texas: J.D. - 1981

  • Graduated First in Class
  • Honors: With Distinction
  • Honors: Phi Delta Phi
  • Honors: Member, John M. Harlen Society
  • Senior Associate Editor, St. Mary's Law Journal, 1980 - 1981

London School of Economics - 1980

University of Wisconsin: B.S. summa cum laude - 1978

Board Certifications
  • Board Certified – Personal Injury Trial Law – Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1987
  • Board Certified – Civil Trial Law – Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1988
  • Board Certified – Civil Trial Advocate - National Board of Trial Advocacy since 1989
  • Board Certified – Civil Practice Advocate - National Board of Trial Advocacy since 2018
  • Board Certified – Truck Accident Law Advocate - National Board of Trial Advocacy since 2019

Only 991 attorneys—1.1% of licensed Texas lawyers—are double board certified.

Biography

Daniel J.T. Sciano is Chairman of the Board, Vice President and senior attorney at the Law Offices of Tinsman & Sciano, Inc. With over 38 years of legal experience, Dan has handled a vast variety of civil and personal injury litigation matters throughout his legal career. They have included complex medical malpractice claims, motor vehicle accident claims, truck/tractor and other company motor vehicle wrecks involving serious injury or death, claims regarding unreasonably dangerous and defective products involving a vast array of commercial and industrial products, complex medical malpractice claims, and a panoply of claims brought due to catastrophic injury or death. His practice also involves civil litigation in a wide variety of areas.

Mr. Sciano has a national reputation with regard to his representation of victims (most often small children) catastrophically injured or killed as a result of range tip-overs. He is and has been involved as both co-counsel and local counsel regarding complex consumer class action litigation. His current docket (as it has for more than a decade) is national in scope. He prides himself not only in obtaining fair and reasonable compensation for those he represents, but also works tirelessly in representing his clients to ensure that business practices are changed, or defective products that cause serious bodily injury or death, are withdrawn from the marketplace in an attempt to help ensure similar tragedies don't happen again.

Over his legal career, he has written or spoken on a vast array of legal topics and routinely speaks on a variety of legal topics for the State Bar of Texas as part of continuing legal education of other lawyers. He also has been featured on national and local TV, radio, and in the written media regarding a diverse range of legal topics.

Honors and Awards
  • Named ‘Lawyer of the Year’ in Personal Injury Litigation, San Antonio in 2010 and 2012 by Best Lawyers®, a division of Abry Partners
  • Named on the 1995-2015 Best Lawyers In America, Personal Injury Litigation, Plaintiffs list by Best Lawyers®, a division of Abry Partners
  • Named on the 2015-2024 Best Lawyers in America, Personal Injury Litigation list by Best Lawyers®, a division of Abry Partner
  • Recognized on the 2013 Top 100 Texas Super Lawyers list by Super Lawyers®, a division of Thomson Reuters
  • Recognized as one of the Top 100 Texas Super Lawyers in 2013 by Thomson Reuters
  • Selected to the 2008-2022 Top 50 Texas Super Lawyers in the Central & West Texas Region lists by Super Lawyers®, a division of Thomson Reuters
  • Recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer, Plaintiff Personal Injury: Product Liability category from 2003-2022 by Thomson Reuters
  • Named on the 2019-2021 San Antonio’s Top Attorneys lists by San Antonio Magazine
  • Awarded the 2013 San Antonio Trial Lawyers Association Pat Maloney, Sr. Courage Award
  • Named on the 2006-2022 San Antonio’s Top Personal Injury Plaintiff Attorneys lists by Scene in S.A. Magazine
  • Chosen by his peers to be the #1 Personal Injury Plaintiff Attorney in San Antonio for 2021 as published in Scene in S.A. Magazine.
Bar Admissions
  • State Bar of Texas, 1981
  • State Bar of Wisconsin, 1986
  • U.S. District Court Western District of Texas, 1984
  • U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas, 1994
  • U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas, 1995
  • U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas, 1995
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit, 1982
  • U.S. Supreme Court, 1992
Professional Associations and Memberships
  • American Association for Justice – Member, 1981-Present
  • American Bar Association – Member, 1981-Present
  • American Board of Trial Advocates – National Board Representative, San Antonio Chapter
  • American Board of Trial Advocates – Member, 1981-Present
  • National Board of Trial Advocacy – Member, 1989-Present
  • San Antonio Trial Lawyers Association – Member, 1981-Present
  • San Antonio Trial Lawyers Association – Director: 1988-92; Past President: 1994-95
  • San Antonio Bar Association – Member, 1981-Present
  • State Bar of Texas – Member, 1981-Present
  • State Bar of Texas – Served on Administration of Rules of Evidence Committee: 2006-2012
  • State Bar of Wisconsin – Member, 1986-Present
  • Texas Trial Lawyers Association – Member since 1981 and Current Director
  • The National Trial Lawyers – Member, 2012-Present