Daniel R. Flynn
Dan has dedicated his career to protecting the environment and ensuring that people are afforded a safe and healthful place to work.
Dan has dedicated his career to protecting the environment and ensuring that people are afforded a safe and healthful place to work.
Dan Flynn represents governmental entities, individual consumers, and corporate clients—all with one primary goal in mind: ensuring the protection of human health and the environment. His stewardship ensures not only that polluters be held responsible for contamination and clean-up, but that communities receive the justice they deserve. Dan assists corporate entities, governmental agencies, and the public by ensuring that companies that have contaminated the environment and violated regulations take responsibility for their actions. Through common law claims, citizen suits, enforcement actions, and contribution and cost recovery actions, he ensures polluters and bad actors remediate the harm they have caused.
Dan is part of the DiCello Levitt team working with several states in investigating and addressing poly- and perfluoroalkyl substance (“PFAS”) contamination. DiCello Levitt’s PFAS team works with state attorneys general in pursuing claims against PFAS and AFFF manufacturers for damage that PFAS has done to state natural resources and the environment.
Dan also represents public clients in litigation seeking to hold the world’s largest fossil fuel companies accountable for decades of deception concerning climate change and the costs and other consequences that climate change is imposing on those governments.
Dan is a court appointed Co-Lead Counsel of In re Bio-Lab Class Actions, a case on behalf of more than 90,000 residents and business owners in Conyers, Georgia, and the surrounding area who have been affected by a catastrophic chemical fire.
Dan and DiCello Levitt’s environmental team served as Co-Lead Counsel in the Rockton, Illinois community’s class action against Chemtool Incorporated, Grasley v. Chemtool, Inc., No. 2021-L-0000162 (Winnebago Cty.), for contamination resulting from a chemical plant fire that burned for days, which required the evacuation of the surrounding community and resulted in contamination of properties for miles around the plant, which settled for $94.5 million.
Dan and DiCello Levitt’s environmental team also joined with co-counsel in representing several residents and former residents of Union, Illinois in filing suit against companies responsible for polluting the groundwater with carcinogenic chlorinated solvents.
Dan also frequently counsels clients on developing and maintaining state-of-the-art environmental, safety, and health programs that ensure the protection of human health and the environment and that all employees enjoy safe and healthful workplaces. He works closely with both his clients to enhance environmental protection and employee safety and health well beyond EPA’s and OSHA’s minimum requirements.
Dan received his bachelor’s degree from Illinois Wesleyan University and graduated cum laude with his J.D. from Indiana University Maurer School of Law.
