Daniel R. Bartley

Daniel R. Bartley
Member
Email: danielbartleylaw@aol.com

Practice Areas: False Claims Act; Qui Tam Litigation; Whistleblower Litigation; Wrongful Termination; Sexual Harassment; Discrimination; Labor and Employment; Antitrust; Contracts; Securities; Business Torts; Wrongful Death; General Practice.

Admitted: 1972, Kentucky; 1974, Florida; 1978, California

Law School: University of Kentucky, J.D., 1972

College: Eastern Kentucky University, B.B.A., 1969

Born: Pikeville, Kentucky, August 21, 1948

ISLN: 909216144

The son of a decorated Treasure Island-based World War II U.S. Navy anti-aircraft gunner and a "Rosie the Riveter" mom who labored at a factory in Cincinnati, Dan Bartley put himself through college by doing construction work.

After graduating in the top 25% of his law class at the University of Kentucky (while simultaneously clerking at a law firm, managing an apartment complex, and obtaining his brown belt in Shaolin kung fu), Dan Bartley in 1972 hung out his shingle for his own general practice law office in Kentucky's Appalachian Mountains. There, he practiced law for five years, obtaining hands-on diverse litigation experience, responsibility, and one-on-one client development and contact often not available at a large law firm. He takes special pride in having assisted many elderly coal miners in obtaining federal black lung benefits, and in doing extensive legal work associated with the establishment of a new state park.

In 1977, Mr. Bartley made an upward career move, accepting a position as Counsel with Foremost-McKesson, Inc., at its corporate headquarters in San Francisco.

In 1980, he made another upward career move, accepting the position of Regional Counsel of Mobil's Chicago-based paperboard packaging subsidiary, Container Corporation of America ("CCA"), at CCA's Western Region headquarters in Santa Clara, in the heart of Silicon Valley.

During his corporate counsel years, Mr. Bartley's primary practice areas were antitrust compliance, equal employment opportunity law, contracts, and litigation management. He extensively traveled nationwide, giving hundreds of preventative compliance presentations to assembled groups of corporate executives.

In 1986, missing trial practice and seeing the surging demand for qualified practitioners of wrongful termination law, Dan Bartley elected to return to private practice as Bartley Law Offices, at 345 California Street in San Francisco.

In 1991, he began augmenting his employment law practice with False Claims Act qui tam whistleblower litigation, since the two areas often overlapped in his practice.

In 1994, Mr. Bartley relocated his offices across the Golden Gate Bridge to Marin County.

Over the years, Mr. Bartley has served on numerous professional and industry panels regarding employment law, whistleblower law, and other issues, and continues to accept invitations to speak to groups of executives or lawyers.

Aside from being a member of the state bars of California, Florida, and Kentucky, Mr. Bartley is an active member of the California Employment Lawyers Association. Further, he is on the registry of attorneys of Taxpayers Against Fraud, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., that educates the public and lawyers on False Claims Act qui tam whistleblower issues.

He is accorded the highest ("AV") Martindale-Hubbell rating.

Mr. Bartley stays abreast of public affairs and business issues, and since the early 1980's has maintained membership in the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, the foremost speakers forum on the West Coast.

Aside from his love for the law, Mr. Bartley is a family man who takes pleasure in spending time with his wife, children, and friends, doing diverse sports and activities.