Dana Ladner

Dana Ladner is a partner in SBSB’s Houston office. She has a long history of work in all aspects of personal injury and defense. Dana has vast experience with complex matters involving admiralty and maritime law, premises liability, Jones Act, general negligence, the Defense Base Act, workers’ compensation across jurisdictions, Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) compliance, the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, and coverage disputes. She regularly handles cases with conflicts of law relating to each of her practice areas. Her practice also involves overlapping general maritime and personal injury cases with OFAC compliance as each interplay with domestic and international shipping trade, United States’ defense policies, and sanctioned states.

Dana and her colleagues’ individualized approach to each case reflects years of experience resulting in broad knowledge and a deep understanding of these specialized areas of law. The result is effective representation, leading to long-standing client relationships and successful outcomes. Her legal career has been marked by persistence and conviction, as well as a deep affinity for legal research, writing, and oral advocacy.

She has extensive experience in plaintiff and expert depositions, mediations, and representing employers and carriers. In addition to her practice, she has served as an Adjunct Advocacy Professor at South Texas College of Law, where she earned her Juris Doctorate degree. While in law school, she was named to the Order of the Barristers and won the South Texas Best Writer Award, among other honors.

Dana is admitted to the State Bar of Texas and maintains membership with the Houston Mariners Club, the Houston Young Lawyers Association and Phi Delta Phi, the oldest continuously operating legal organization in the United States.