Danny Howell has been an attorney for 38 years, practicing primarily in the areas of insurance coverage, legal ethics and professional liability defense, including a significant appellate practice in those areas. Most recently, Danny successfully handled appeals resulting in published decisions in Medical Mut. Ins. Co. of N.C. v. Gnik, 93 F.4th 192 (4h Cir. 2024) and Smith Dev. Inc. v. Conway, 896 S.E.2d 88 (Va. Ct. App. 2024). Danny is the founding partner of Howell & Rowlett PLLC, a litigation boutique in the Tysons Corner area of Northern Virginia.
Danny Howell has been representing attorneys in professional liability suits, bar investigations and complaints, and disbarment actions before the federal courts and the United States Patent & Trademark Office, for 30 years. Danny also has an extensive insurance coverage practice in the areas of professional liability and commercial general liability insurance. He has lectured and published extensively on legal ethics and insurance topics.
Danny is admitted to practice and has practiced extensively in the state courts in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Sixth, and Federal Circuits, the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia, the District of Columbia, and Maryland, and the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He has also appeared pro hac vice in federal court cases in the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of New York and the District of Minnesota.
From 2003 through 2016, Danny was a partner with the McLean, Virginia office of Richmond-based Sands Anderson, P.C. He joined Sands as part of its 2003 merger with Schraub Howell & Company, Chartered, where he served as managing partner. In 2016 Danny opened the Law Offices of Danny M. Howell, PLLC, a five-attorney litigation boutique in McLean, Virginia.
Danny carries an AV® Peer Review Rating by Martindale-Hubbell. He was a 2007 Fellow of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism and has served as an Adjunct Professor with the University of Richmond’s.
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